Did You Know...

  • There is no Roman numeral for zero.
  • If 23 people are in the same room, there is a 50% chance that two people will have the same birthday.
  • 1000 is the only number from 0 to 1000 that has an “a” in it.
  • Take any shape with the same perimeter, and a circle still possesses the largest area.
  • Every odd number has an ‘e’.
  • Among all the Shakespearean dramas, the word “Mathematics” only appears in the play called: “The Taming of the Shrew”.
  • The mathematical word “hundred” coins from “hundrath” which is an old Norse term that actually referred to a quantity of 120
  • You can use three geometric cuts to a cake and get 8 pieces.
  • William Shanks, a renowned Mathematician, spent a large part of his life calculating Mathematical constants and didn’t make a mistake until he reached the 528th digit.
  • On dice, opposite sides always add up to the number seven.
  • A standard piece of paper can only be folded seven times, however, according to mathematical theory, if you could fold a piece of paper in half 103 times its thickness would equal that of the observable universe.
  • If you started with a penny and doubled its value every day for just 30 days, you would have over $5,000,000 Million in the first month.

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