Numbers in the News

AMOUNT a Connecticut antiques collector recently paid for a small porcelain bowl at a yard sale. The bowl turned out to be a rare 15th-century Chinese artifact and sold for $580,000 at auction in March.

^{Source: The Associated Press}

LENGTH of the world’s longest hockey game, which took place in Canada in February. While playing for the equivalent of 10 and a half days, players scored 5,177 goals and raised more than $1.8 million for cancer research.

^{Source: The Canadian Press}

YEARS that the black-browed babbler, a bird species in Asia, couldn’t be found. But researchers recently spotted one of the birds in Indonesia, the first sighting since 1850. 

^{Source: The New York Times}

PERCENTAGE of students at King’s College London who displayed symptoms of smartphone addiction in a recent study. The youngest participants were most likely to be addicted.

^{Source: The Guardian}