Fatto matematico: 1038 is the number of ways to stack 29 pennies in contiguous rows so that each penny lies on the table or on two pennies.
Trivia: 1038 is an unremarkable number.
Data storica: November 3rd is the day in 1838 that the Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.