*Do you know a word known as Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia means difficulty in learning arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, and learning maths facts!
*Do you know “Mathematics” is an anagram of “me asthmatic!” Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC!
*The word ‘hundrath’ in Old Norse (old language from where English language originated), from which word ‘hundred’ derives, meant not 100 but 120!
*What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion!
*The number 5 is pronounced as ‘Ha’ in Thai language. 555 is also used by some as slang for “HaHaHa!”
*Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip!
*Zero (0) is the only number which cannot be represented by Roman numerals!
*The name ‘zero’ derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word “cipher” meaning “a secret way of writing!”
*Do you know the magic of number nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9)!
*The = sign (equals sign) was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing “is equal to” in his equations and it was first used in 1557 by Robert Recorde, an Englishman!
*The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word “googol.” It is a term used for a number 1 followed by 100 zeros and that it was used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta, in 1940!
*Abacus is considered the origin of the calculator!
*12,345,678,987,654,321 is the product of 111,111,111 x 111,111,111. Notice the sequence of the numbers 1 to 9 and back to 1!
*Plus (+) and Minus (-) sign symbols were used as early as 1489 A.D!
*An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides!
If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5…) the total is 5050!
*2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5!
*From 0 to 1,000, the letter “A” only appears in 1,000 (one thousand)!
*A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
*“FOUR” is the only number in the English language that is spelled with the same number of letters as the number itself! 40 when written “forty” is the only number with letters in alphabetical order, while “one” is the only one with letters in reverse order!
*In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2 !
*If there are 50 students in a class then it’s virtually certain that two will share the same birthday!
*Among all shapes with the same perimeter, circle has the largest area!
*Among all shapes with the same area, circle has the shortest perimeter!
*The word “FRACTION” derives from the Latin “fractio” which means to break!
*In working out mathematical equations, the Greek mathematician, Pythagoreans used little rocks to represent numbers. Hence the name of Calculus was born which means pebbles in Greek!
*Have you heard about Fibonacci? It is the sequence of numbers wherein a number is the result of adding the two numbers before it! Here is an example: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on!
*Want to remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) in easy way. You can do it by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?”
*Have you heard about a Palindrome Number? It is a number that reads the same backwards and forward, e.g. 12421!
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