mathematics trivia

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Math trivia e-book!

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The mathematical name for the division sign is called Obelus

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Did you know Giga stands for a Billion?

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Googol is the term used for the number 1 followed by 100 Zeros and was first used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta in 1940!

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5

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes about

1825 days to yield consumable product

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6

Greek math whiz Pythagoras noticed that the morning

star and evening star were one and the same in 530

B.C

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The number 2 is the only prime number that does not have an "e" in its name

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October 10th is celebrated as National Metric Day

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You will have to count up to one thousand to use the alphabet "A" in English

Language to spell a whole number

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Plus (+) and Minus (-) signs were first used by mathematicians in the

sixteenth century

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When you multiply 1089 by 9, the answer you get is 9801, which is the exact

reverse of the number 1089

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A Icosahedron is a geometric shape that has twenty (20) equal sides

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13

The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days. That is

240 hours

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"Four" is the only number in the English language that is spelled with the same number of letters as

the number itself

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15

When you multiply 111,111,111 by

111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321

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The record for most snowfall in a day, 78 inches, happened on February 7, 1916 in

Alaska. It is equal to a person as tall as 6.5

feet!

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Ollie, the Mascot !