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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 9, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 1/4 of Earth’s population A quarter of the human population of our planet is facing the growing and dire risk of...

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Organize Some Debates! Maximize The Shade!

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want...

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Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 12, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 10th week The mass demonstrations in Hong Kong — which were started over a controversial extradition bill which...

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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 15 percent of pharmacies Nearly half of the opioid pills sold in the U.S. from 2006 to 2012 were purchased by...

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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2 degrees Celsius The average temperature of New Jersey has climbed nearly 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit)...

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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 24,600 per liter New research out of Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research has shed...

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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 16, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 23 candidates And then there were … well, there’s actually still 23. Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper...

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Which Billiard Ball Is Rigged?

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Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 19, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 1.7 million people For more than 10 weeks, pro-democracy protestors, spurred by an extradition bill, have been...

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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 74 percent of economists Seventy-four percent of American business economists, as surveyed by the National...

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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 936 accounts Twitter removed 936 accounts from its service — and suspended some 200,000 more — citing a...

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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 84 percent increase According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, the number of fires in the...

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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 23, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $16.3 trillion plan Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate, has unveiled a $16.3 trillion plan to...

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Can You Fool The Bank With Your Counterfeit Bills?

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Significant Digits For Monday, Aug. 26, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 4th candidate In what is quickly becoming a regular and dirgeful drumbeat, another Democratic presidential...

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Significant Digits For Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $572 million In a “landmark ruling” in a lawsuit relating to the opioid crisis, an Oklahoma judge ruled that...

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Significant Digits For Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. $30,000 party Attorney General William Barr booked a 200-person holiday party at the Presidential Ballroom of...

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Significant Digits For Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 10 candidates The next Democratic presidential debate — scheduled for Sept. 12 in Houston — will feature just 10...

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Significant Digits For Friday, Aug. 30, 2019

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. This is my final column as your digit wrangler. It’s been a pleasure — thank you for reading. 408,000 men and...

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A Peaceful (But Not Peaceful) Transition Of Power In Riddler Nation

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, we offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Before we puzzle this week, some Riddler news: This is my final...

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