Printable number chart, 1 to 30

What this sheet holds

The chart sets the whole numbers from 1 to 30, one to a cell, in a grid ten columns wide and three rows deep. Thirty numerals on a single A4 sheet at fifteen point, inside fifteen ruled lines: eleven running down the sheet and four running across it. Nine of the thirty numerals are single digits and the remaining twenty-one have two. No numeral on the sheet has three.

The rows read 1 to 10, 11 to 20 and 21 to 30, so the grid is the top three rows of a hundred square and stops there, on a ruled line rather than partway through a row.

Taking the sheet

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A column three cells deep

Because the row is ten cells wide, this chart keeps the geometry of a hundred square in a shorter frame. A step of one cell to the right adds one. A step of one cell down adds ten. Every column is therefore a run of tens, and every number in a column ends in the same digit: 1, 11, 21 down the left-hand edge; 4, 14, 24 in the fourth column; 10, 20, 30 down the right.

Three rows is the shortest depth at which that is a column at all rather than a pair. Each column here is one number, the same number with a ten in front of it, and the same number with a twenty in front of it, and there is nothing beyond. The whole sheet is those ten short runs standing side by side.

The proportions follow. Ten across by three down means the grid is more than three times as wide as it is tall in cells, so the sheet reads as a wide band of three lines rather than as a square. That is the visible difference between this chart and the hundred square, which is ten by ten and reads the same distance in both directions. Adding two more rows would make it 1 to 50 and half a hundred square; adding seven would make it the hundred square itself.

The last cell is 30, in the bottom right corner, which is the largest number that fills three rows of ten exactly.