The winning numbers for the December 22, 2025, Powerball drawing were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54, with a Powerball of 7. No ticket matched all six numbers to win the grand prize, but nine tickets won $1 million each. The Powerball jackpot has now increased to an ...

When you move beyond trillions, there are some extremely mind-bending numbers, says Richard Fisher. Some of them are too large to fit in the mind – or even within the known Universe. What's the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it's ...

Imagine a horizontal line. The very left is marked one thousand and the very right is marked one billion. On this line, where would you add a marker to represent one million? If you said somewhere in the middle, you answered the same as the roughly 50 ...

A new study from a gambling site crunched the numbers on Powerball to determine the numbers that come up most frequently and those that might be overdue in a drawing. According to CSGO Luck's data, since 2015, the number 61 has been drawn 90 times in ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He urgently needed to write a book. Don’t worry, he reassured ...

For years, the NFL's key numbers of three and seven have gotten sacred treatment from bettors. And while they remain essential spread-betting numbers, they aren’t as important as they used to be. Ahead of the 2015 season, the NFL moved the extra point ...

Whenever you look at a clock, do you always see the same time? It might be 11:11 or 3:33. Maybe repeating numbers have made their way into other aspects of your life, such as a receipt that totaled $22.22. These may seem like mere coincidences, but ...

The U.S. is still full of soon-to-be millionaires. The record-breaking pot reached $1.6 billion — yes, that’s with a B — with the next drawing Tuesday evening. The amount is the result of several drawings yielding no winner and a steady stream of ...

Imaginary numbers might seem like unicorns and goblins — interesting but irrelevant to reality. But for describing matter at its roots, imaginary numbers turn out to be essential. They seem to be woven into the fabric of quantum mechanics, the math ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and ...

Two lucky Idaho Lottery winning tickets are now worth a guaranteed $1,000,000!  The Idaho Lottery announced the winning numbers from the sold-out, 2025 version of the popular Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle shortly before 6 p.