Monday 29 January 2018

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT MATHS

Hi All,
Today am going to share some of the amazing / fun facts about Maths!! Let's directly jump into it!!




  • Abacus in considered as the origin of calculator
  • From 0 to 1,000, the letter "A" appears in only in “thousand"
  • Zero is the only number which cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
  • When number 1 is divided by 998001. The answer would give you a complete sequence from 000 to 999 in order. 
  • If you add the numbers  1 to 100, the total is 5050
  • 'FOUR' is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself 
  • Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides of a die always adds up to seven?
  • Number 9 is believed to be a magic number. It is because if you multiply a number with 9, add all digits to resulting number, the sum would always be 9.
  • 40 when written "forty" is the only number with letters in alphabetical order
  • 1 when written "one" is the only number with letters in reverse order
  • 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.
  • Do you know what comes after Million?
They are Billion, Trillion, Quadrillion, Quintillion, Sextillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion,  Decillion, Undecillion,  Duodecillion, Tredecillion, Quatttor-decillion, Quindecillion, Sexdecillion, Novemdecillion, Vigintillion, Centillion.
  • The famous Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, used to have small rocks to signify numbers when working on mathematical equations. This led to origin of word Calculus which means pebbles in Greek.
WOW!! It was a great fun for me to know all these & jot it down here for all to know!!  Hope you all liked it!! Meet you in my next post 😀

Regards,
Alams







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