We've Got Your Numbers Quiz

In 2019, mathemetician Andrew Booker figured out how to express 33 as the sum of three cubes (33 = x³+ y³+ z³). Later that same year, Booker and MIT professor Andrew Sutherland used the same code to solve the Diophantine Equation (x^3+y^3+z^3=k) for the lone remaining integer under 100 that hadn't been conquered: the number 42. Scientists had been trying to do this for more than 60 years.

The famed writer may have kicked off the obsession with the number 23 thanks to his short story "23 Skidoo," inspired by a series of bizarre occurrences he had involving the number. There's even a Facebook page, "23rdians," populated by people who believe in 23's significance.

Actuary Benjamin Gompertz developed a "mortality equation" in 1825 which is still used today to help insurance companies figure out how to buy and sell annuities. He calculated that the odds of a person dying roughly doubles every eight years.

You might have the most luck guessing number 7. A 1971 study, known as the "blue-seven" phenomenon, found that 30 percent of respondents said their favorite number was 7, while 40 percent said their favorite color was blue! This was consistent across countries.

One verse in particular reads, “One who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six” (Rev. 13:18). The beast refers to the Antichrist.

Prime numbers, which are divisible only by one and itself, appear random, and are thusly used to encrypt information exchanged over the internet.

The smallest of all the perfect numbers is 6, which is the sum of its divisors, 1, 2 and 3.

Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The amazing thing is whether you're measuring a planet or a tennis ball, the number will always be 3.14.

Dunbar's number as its called, was based on his research showing that hunter-gatherer societies were comprised around 150 people.

In Chinese, the word for "death" sounds like the pronunciation for number 4. Many buildings in China will skip a fourth floor just like buildings in the U.S. won't have a 13th floor.