All of us have studied Mathematics at some time in our lives. Some of us love it so much that we choose to make it our career while some of us are scared of it as if we haven’ come across something as scarier than Maths. We have compiled a list of fascinating Mathematics facts that would give you the knowledge you didn’t receive in school.
1. Maths has a magical digit. Yes! It is number 9. This is because if you multiply a number with 9 and add all the digit of the resulting number, the sum would always give you a number 9. Lets see how 9*8 = 72, 7 + 2 = 9. 9*4 = 36, 3 + 6 = 9.
2. Among all shapes with the same perimeter, a circle has the largest area.
3. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
4. The word “hundred” comes from the old Norse term, “hundrath”, which actually means 120 and not 100.
5. The symbol for division (÷) is called an obelus.
6. In sunflower, the sequence followed by many spherically spiral patterns in a bud follows Fibonacci series.
7. Not many people believe, but it is accepted and proven that ‘zero’ is an Even Number.
8. Have you ever wondered what comes after a trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, and undecillion.
9. The numbers on opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven
10. e^i*pi + 1 = 0 is the most important equation of Maths.
11. PI never repeats and never ends when written in decimal numbers. It is irrational
12. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
13. There's not enough space in the known universe to write out a googolplex on paper.
14. Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That’s why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
15. 2520 is the smallest number that can be completely divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
We hope you liked these facts as much as we did while compiling them for you. For more interesting facts and knowledgeable content stay tuned to ntsetips.
