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MATHEMATICS WEEK
"FUN FACTS ABOUT MATHS"
Did you know?
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It wasn’t until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.
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Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides a die always add up to seven (7)
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What comes after a million, billion and trillion? Why a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion and nonillion of course.
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Cutting a cake into 8 pieces is possible with just 3 slices, can you work out how?
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If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5...) the total is 5050.
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An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.
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A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped.
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From 0 to 1,000, the letter "A" only appears in 1,000 ("one thousand").
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Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides.
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The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29.
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FOUR' is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself
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The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
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A ‘googolplex’ is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, this number is so big that it can’t be written because there isn’t enough room in the universe to fit it in! It would also take a length of time far greater than the age of the universe just to write the numbers.
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Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
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Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals
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Do you know the magic of no. 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).
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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.
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Abacus is considered the origin of the calculator.
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Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.
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Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter
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Have you heard about a Palindrome Number? It is a number that reads the same backwards and forward, e.g. 12421.