Significant Digits

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $70 million, the loss projected at Universal Pictures because of the disastrous box office reception to the musical “Cats,” according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $4,500, the average cost of having a baby in the United States, even with medical insurance, according to a data analysis of 657,061 American women who gave birth between 2008 and 2015 by researchers at the University of Michigan.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. A bittersweet note about Significant Digits before we get going: FiveThirtyEight is revamping Significant Digits in the coming weeks. This will be the last edition in this format. The newsletter will take a few weeks off but will be back soon — stay tuned for more. You can follow writer Karen K. Ho on Twitter: @karenkho.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $3.2 million, the value of legal cannabis sold in the state of Illinois on its first day, according to Bloomberg News.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $10 million, the cost of each of President Trump and Mike Bloomberg’s 60-second Super Bowl advertisements, according to the New York Times.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $8.8 million, the price paid at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday for the original Olympic Games Manifesto written in 1892 by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin, which the auction house said set a new world record for sports memorabilia.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news.

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is $1.325 billion, the amount Frozen 2 has made at the box office, making the sequel “officially the highest-grossing animated movie in history,” according to Variety.