On Tuesday, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney turned a question about offensive plays missed against Georgia Tech into a 13-plus-minute history lesson on the unprecedented success in school history in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...