BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In a typical forecast, you often hear or see the words “probability of precipitation.” This value is given as a percentage. Although this value is frequently seen and used, ...

For years, social media users have been lecturing one another about what percentages mean in weather forecasts. "Y'all know on the weather app the percentage isn't a "chance" of rain. It means it will ...

In Roman times, dice were visibly lopsided and were unbalanced in the arrangement of numbers By 1450, dice players and makers seemingly figured out that form affected function when it came to rolling ...

QUAD CITIES, Iowa/Ill. (KWQC) - Have you ever wondered what the terms “isolated” or “scattered” actually mean, or how meteorologists come up with the percentages for the chance of rain? A lot of times ...

When mathematics lecturer Gene Kim turned a $15 daily fantasy sports (DFS) lineup into a $50,000 win in April, it would not be his last victory of the year — Kim launched a new introductory seminar ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned — before ...

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 now stand at 1-in-32, or a 3.1 percent chance of collision, according to the latest data from NASA. On February 7, NASA upped the likelihood of the ...

The range of forecasts is wide, but economists generally see a rising probability that the U.S. economy will shrink. By Isabella Simonetti and Jason Karaian High inflation, rising interest rates, ...