Numbers

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Hope Reeves, Alain L. Sanders and Josh Tyrangiel

$6 billion Amount the Federal Government collects annually through a 3% phone tax, enacted in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War

$4.9 billion Estimated cost of the eight-month war, adjusted for inflation

$363 million Jackpot to be split by the two winners of last week's seven-state lottery, the biggest in U.S. history

$110,000 Cost of a Louisiana study that found underage gamblers can buy lottery tickets 64% of the time

9,200 Roller-coaster injuries in 1998, a 24% increase since 1994

92 m.p.h. Peak speed of the new 310-ft. roller coaster in Sandusky, Ohio, the tallest and fastest in America

2036 Year experts predict India, whose population reached 1 billion last week, will surpass China as the world's most populous country

42,000 Number of babies born each day in India, more than a third into poverty

Sources: Plain Dealer, Encyclopedia Americana (phone); Detroit News, Times-Picayune (lottery); AP (coaster), Houston Chronicle (India)