What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in ...

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

When you see repeating number sequences, you may think it's a coincidence. Perhaps it's your favorite number or you have a special memory associated with it. However, this is no coincidence! It's ...