Over the first four trading days of 2018, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed in record territory every day. Each of the bench marks passed some ...

Psychologists have discovered a “top-10 effect,” where people lump things into round-number groups and view everything else as inferior. The lesson? Never, ever be 11th. Nowhere is this tendency ...

Excel displays the original number up to 11 digits. When you enter a number that has more than 11 digits, Excel does not display the original value. Instead, it displays the number in the exponential ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

Robert Breunig receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Treasury and the Australian Taxation Office. Australia’s tax system is needlessly complex, and that’s making it ...

Round numbers are handy—they’re easy to add, subtract and remember. But they’re not so helpful when it comes to crowdfunding. A new study by researchers Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen found that ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. At some point in your life, you were most likely taught how to ...

When negotiating for a salary, most of us reach for a nice, round number like $65,000. Or $90,000. Or $120,000. But, by favoring all those zeros, we may be missing an opportunity to score a better ...