THE MOVES OF THE PIECES
all six moves from one square, the article of the rules and how many squares each piece holds
PAWN
one square forward, two on its first move, capturing diagonally — and never going back
QUEEN
file, rank and diagonal together — from twenty-one squares to twenty-seven
ROOK
fourteen squares from any square of the board — the one piece that does not care where it stands
MARTIAL ARTS FAMILY TREE
fifteen schools and thirteen lines of transmission — every arrow is a documented apprenticeship, not a legend
IMPERIAL UNITS
convert in your head · without a calculator
CURRENCY MINOR UNITS
178 codes in the standard: 139 currencies divide by 100, 17 do not divide at all, 7 divide by 1,000 — and 25 codes are not money you can spend
APERTURE, SHUTTER, ISO
one stop is twice the light: three scales with the same step on each
NEEDLES AND YARN
knitting needle sizes in three systems — metric, old UK, US — and the 0–7 yarn weights per the Craft Yarn Council
THE LARGEST COUNTRIES
the ten largest by surface area — as squares at true scale, each inside the next
LEAP SECONDS
27 seconds added to UTC since 1972, none since 2016 — the longest run there has ever been
PAPER SIZES
the A series · from A0 to A6