Action Charts

Many actions and situations require one or more of the Action Charts. There are three charts: The Square chart, the Sphere chart, and the Doubles chart.

There are two ways of reading the Action Charts. You can read from one of the charts to the Results column, or from the Results column to one of the charts.

When looking up a number on an Action Chart, look up the largest number that is still less than or equal to the reference number, and read to the result. If you are looking up 42 on the Sphere Chart, the largest number that is still less than or equal to 42 is 32. The result is 13. (This result, by the way, is often considered a part of the answer to, well, everything.)

The Action Charts

Square Sphere Doubles Result

.0059 (-169) .018 (-32) .000061 (-4096) .077 (-13)

.0069 (-144) .024 (-24) .00012 (-2048) .083 (-12)

.0083 (-121) .032 (-18) .00024 (-1024) .091 (-11)

.01 (-100) .042 (-14) .0005 (-512) .1 (-10)

.012 (-81) .056 (-10) .001 (-256) .11 (-9)

.016 (-64) .075 (-8) .002 (-128) .13 (-8)

.020 (-49) .10 (-7) .004 (-64) .14 (-7)

.028 (-36) .13 (-6) .008 (-32) .17 (-6)

.04 (-25) .18 (-5) .016 (-16) .2 (-5)

.063 (-16) .24 (-4) .031 (-8) .25 (-4)

.11 (-9) .32 (-3) .063 (-4) .33 (-3)

.25 (-4) .42 (-2) .13 (-2) .5 (-2)

.49 (-1) .56 (-1) .25 (-1) .7 (-1)

.81 (0) .75 (0) .5 (0) .9 (0)

1 1 1 1

4 2 2 2

9 3 4 3

16 4 8 4

25 5 16 5

36 6 32 6

49 7 64 7

64 8 128 8

81 10 256 9

100 14 512 10

121 18 1,024 11

144 24 2,048 12

169 32 4,096 13

196 43 8,192 14

225 57 16,384 15

256 75 32,768 16

289 100 65,536 17

324 133 131,072 18

361 178 262,144 19

400 237 524,288 20

441 316 1,048,576 21

484 421 2,097,152 22

529 561 4,194,304 23

576 748 8,388,608 24

625 997 16,777,216 25

676 1,329 33,554,432 26

729 1,772 67,108,864 27

784 2,363 134,217,728 28

841 3,150 268,435,456 29

900 4,200 536,870,912 30

961 5,600 1.0 billion 31

1,024 7,467 2.1 billion 32

1,089 9,955 4.3 billion 33

1,156 13,274 8.6 billion 34

1,225 17,698 17.2 billion 35

1,296 23,597 34.4 billion 36

1,369 31,463 68.7 billion 37

1,444 41,951 137.4 billion 38

1,521 55,934 274.9 billion 39

1,600 74,578 549.8 billion 40

1,681 99,438 1.1 trillion 41

1,764 132,584 2.2 trillion 42

etc. times 4/3 times 2 +1