Does anyone have experience with self-treatment as an adult with dyscalculia? I think I may have it, and that I've had it all my life. Whether or not that's so, are there any tricks to "rewiring" yourself? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 7 answers

I have a show tomorrow night, I know nothing about sports, and I need to mod a hoodie. Help with funny/edgy names and numbers. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - 24 answers

What is that building on Water Street at John street in downtown NYC (you can see it on street view on googlemaps)? What are those numbers for? Is it a clock or counter or something?
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 7 answers

Can you help me figure out Microsoft Word 2007's settings to meet some very precise requirements for page number formatting? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 2 answers

How to manage an unwieldy mailing list (for physical mailing) on a Mac. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 3 answers

My son asked me how many trees there are in the world. I know there are a finite number, yet I also know that it is not practical to count them. Same with grains of sand. When the set cannot be measured because it goes on forever we say the set is infinite. Is there a single word to express the concept of a countable, finite number too large to actually count? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2007 - 42 answers

I'm looking for a "lite" contact manager for my PC? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 7 answers

Finding the magnitude of a complex fraction. Is it simply |num|/|denom|? Or is there more to it? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - 4 answers

Why are house numbers in America so long? [more inside]
posted on Sep 22, 2007 - 42 answers

I'm working my way through the Bible. At the moment, I'm towards the end of Numbers. The past few books have been very heavy with detailed instructions on the various blood rituals God requires of his people — which animals to sacrifice, what manner to do it in, and lots of blood-splashing on the sides of the tent. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2007 - 31 answers

Are there any free online tools for generating radar (aka radial, spider, star) graphs/charts? [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 1 answers

Why is it hard for me to perform simple mental calculations with certain numbers? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2007 - 19 answers

Is there any way to call United Kingdom 0800 (freephone) numbers from overseas? [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2007 - 6 answers

How would I locate the U.S. "market" numbers on people could consider themselves sports enthusiasts - i.e., "how many swimmers are there"? How many backpackers? How many triatheletes? How many kayakers? I know someone has done this research. I'm looking for Adventure sports in particular.
posted on May 24, 2007 - 5 answers

Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6 interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated with a different piece of art. The rooms can be moved around the building, as if it were an enormous Rubik's cube, but they can also be spun on their axes, so all 6 walls of all 1000 cubes is capable of touching all the others (if the cube is so arranged). How many combinations of art within the 'Cube Gallery' are possible? If you can run me through the workings of the maths I would be extra grateful. Also, what technical words/phrases/language are useful/interesting in expressing this concept? [more inside]
posted on Apr 24, 2007 - 25 answers

How do I improve my memory for numbers? [more inside]
posted on Jan 19, 2007 - 16 answers

Anyone have predictions (with citations) offered on how many troops would be necessary in Iraq? I've heard that generals said up to 300,000 in the run-up, but I can't seem to find sources for these. [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2007 - 15 answers

I just logged into a university library account by typing a 10 digit number. I have no clue what the number actually is, but I know exactly what to punch in. Similarly, I don't really know my pin code, I only know the shape it makes when I type it in, and the same goes for photocopy codes and frequently dialled phone numbers. What's this called? In music it's referred to as "finger memory", but this seems to be music specific. My guess was "kinetic memory", but that seems to be something else entirely.
posted on Dec 1, 2006 - 15 answers

1 is more common than 2? Help me find a recent article that talks about "data" having a tendency to start with 1. [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2006 - 7 answers

I'm trying to find an image of note numbers with the corresponding notes on a staff. [more inside]
posted on Oct 12, 2006 - 15 answers

What kind of jobs exist for people who think about numbers and money from a consumer perspective, in a weirdly logical and obsessive way? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2006 - 18 answers

I have a question about finding the longest sequence in a set of numbers. [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2006 - 13 answers

Can you help me with my innumeracy? [more inside]
posted on Jul 23, 2006 - 16 answers

What experiments have been carried out where animals perform better than us at particular cognitive tasks? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2006 - 13 answers

Where can I find California court records by case number or name search? I'm especially interested in Orange County and Contra Costa counties. I've searched online but can't seem to find a state based online site to look all this up.
posted on Apr 16, 2006 - 6 answers

How can I have my computer analyze a small dataset to find patterns? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2006 - 27 answers

Where does the practice of putting an arabic number in paranthesis after the written number originate? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2006 - 11 answers

Several, couple, a few: occasionally, these words are used to indicate specific quantities of items (3, 2, and 4-5, respectively). Tell me about the etymology of these uses, and help me come up with more words (in English or other languages) that have this interesting specific/nonspecific duality.
posted on Jan 1, 2006 - 41 answers

I'm looking for songs with counting or numbers (used more than once) in the lyrics. [more inside]
posted on Jul 31, 2005 - 108 answers

This is a question about patience and photos on the web, namely - how many photos are too many? [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2005 - 21 answers

I live in Los Angeles, and everyday I see cars on the road with a small paper/placard, usually in the lower-left corner of the rear windshield, that displays the number '6'. They all have (as far as I can tell) a red background with the '6' done in white, and the cards are about 3-4 inches square. What the heck are these things, and why do I see them everywhere?
posted on Jun 12, 2005 - 15 answers

This page mentions, among other things, that "100 is the smallest square which is also the sum of 4 consecutive cubes." Obviously, this refers to the sum of 1^3 (1), 2^3 (8), 3^3 (27) and 4^3 (64). But it seems to me that the sequence can be pushed back to start with 0^3 (0), in which case you can get four consecutive cubes adding up to 36, which is a square. Is zero then not considered a cube? [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2005 - 9 answers

I am looking for the word that describes a the number 9 with twenty zero's after it. I was able to determine that 9 with 18 zero's after it is quintillion and 9 with 21 zero's is sextillion but nothing for 9 with twenty zero's after it.
posted on Jan 5, 2005 - 23 answers

I read The Curious Incident of the Bear in the Night-Time and one of the bits of cleverness is using primes to number the chapters. This got me thinking, is it possible to have a base prime number system? [math inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2004 - 25 answers

Multilingual folks: I need your help translating the word "thirty-one" into as many languages as possible.
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 42 answers

The Number Zero: odd, even, or neither?
posted on Jul 3, 2004 - 17 answers

When watching American TV and films, I often see house numbers such as 1711 or 3242 or whatever. Are the streets actually that long? Are there thousands of houses on one street? Or does the number break down into something else?
posted on May 4, 2004 - 57 answers

PetPeeveFilter: Outside of legal documents, why do people write "seven (7)" (as seen here, but in many, many other places, as well). What, they think I can't read the word seven?
posted on Apr 15, 2004 - 19 answers