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Maths Facts

Mathematics is celebrated internationally on March 14th. Some key facts about numbers and mathematics discussed in the document include: - 2 is the smallest prime number and only even prime. - Romans did not use 0 in their numeral system. - The number 4 can be spelled using the same number of letters as the number itself. - A perfect number equals the sum of its positive divisors, with 6 being the smallest. - Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and is celebrated on Pi Day, March 14th. - The Fibonacci sequence begins with 0 and 1, with each subsequent number the sum of the previous two.

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Maths Facts

Mathematics is celebrated internationally on March 14th. Some key facts about numbers and mathematics discussed in the document include: - 2 is the smallest prime number and only even prime. - Romans did not use 0 in their numeral system. - The number 4 can be spelled using the same number of letters as the number itself. - A perfect number equals the sum of its positive divisors, with 6 being the smallest. - Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and is celebrated on Pi Day, March 14th. - The Fibonacci sequence begins with 0 and 1, with each subsequent number the sum of the previous two.

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March 14th is International Day of Mathematics! This year, UNESCO’s theme is “Mathematics is Everywhere.

We all have heard about


the Pythagoras theorem.
But there is also something
which is known as
Pythagoras constant. The
square root of 2 i.e. 1.41
was the first rational
number to be discovered
which is known as the
Pythagoras constant.

The number 2 is the smallest prime number. It is also the only even prime number. The digit 1 is considered to be
prime to every other number. Therefore, we take 2 as the smallest.

Romans didn't consider 0 to be a number at all. Therefore, there are in total zero zeros in Roman numerals.
Roman numerals only have seven There is only one number in the entire Hindu
different letters which form the entire Arabic number system which can be spelled
number system: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. with the same number of letters as itself.
That number is four.

There is an ‘E’ in the spelling of every odd number.

Mathematically, an even number is a number that can be divided into two smaller numbers which are actually whole
numbers.

If you take any number multiplied by three and sum the digits in the answer, then the answer you receive after
adding the digits will always be divisible by three. For example: 3 x 4 = 12 or, 1 + 2 = 3 or, 3 / 3 = 1

A perfect number refers to a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors. By this rule, 6 is the
smallest perfect number. The next perfect number is 28.

We follow the decimal system number which has 10 digits from 0 to 9. It is also known as the Hindu Arabic numeral
system. It was discovered more than 1000 years ago.
Pi is also known as the ratio of 9 is also known as the magic
circumference to the diameter of a number. This is because if you
circle. It is a special number that is multiply a number by 9 and add all
irrational. There is a designated day, the digits of the new number
called Pi day, that we celebrate on together, the sum will always add up
March 14. to 9. For example: 8 x 9 = 72 or, 7 +
2=9

Leonardo Fibonacci from Pisa, in the 13th century, discovered the Fibonacci sequence. Starting at 0 and 1, this
sequence is created as the sum of the two preceding numbers, For example, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

Very often, the number 1 is confused as a prime number but by dividing 1 by 1, you get 1. Nothing has been divided.

The power of exponential growth is shocking. You can actually reach the moon by folding a paper of 0.01mm 45
times.
If you walked up on the street and asked someone about their favourite number, there is almost a 10% chance that
they will say number seven.

13 is regarded as an unlucky number. But in Alex Bellos'


research, it turned out to be the most popular two-digit
number.
Googol means 1 followed by 100 zeroes. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros. It is hard to imagine how
long this number would be.
Number four is viewed with superstition and distrust and much of East Asia. This is known as tetra phobia. This is because
the word four sounds similar to that in a number of Asian languages.

Number four is viewed with superstition and distrust and


much of East Asia. This is known as tetra phobia. This is
because the word four sounds similar to that in a number
of Asian languages.

Teenagers texting in Thailand will send the digits 555 to indicate that something is funny. In the Thai language, 5 is
pronounced as ha which when translated becomes hahaha.

The majority of the months have 31 days in a calendar. Only four months have 30 days i.e. April, June, September,
and November. February typically only has 28 days, with the exception of leap years.

In a sample of 23 people, there are 50% chances that two of them will share the same birthday. This is known as
the birthday problem.

Seven is the most significant number across religions and


cultures. For example, seven colors in a rainbow, seven
days in a week, seven notes on the musical skill, etc.
What comes after million, billion, and trillion? You can term the numbers after these terms as quadrillion, quintillion,
sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion.
The signs Plus (+) and Minus (-) were discovered as early
as 1489 A.D.

Two and five are the only prime numbers in the entire number system which ends with two or five.
A geometrical close bounded figure which has 20 sides is known as an icosagon.

If you add up all the numbers between 1 to 100 consecutively then the total that you will reach is 5050.

Jiffy is actually considered to be a unit of time for 1/100th


of a second.

Do you know what a Palindrome Number is? It is a number that reads the same backward and forward, e.g.
12421.
There are other special numbers also apart from
Pythagoras constant and pi. Some of these numbers are
Euler’s constant, Golden ratio, etc.

The opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7. For example, 6 and 1 will always be on opposite sides which add
up to 7.
A baseball diamond is
A baseball field is of the perfect shape of a rhombus. a perfect rhombus. A
rhombus is a parallelogram
with opposite equal acute
angles, opposite equal
obtuse angles and four equal
sides.

Mount Everest weighs an estimated 357 trillion pounds.


Forests cover 31% of the world’s land surface.
Squirrels can run at about 20 miles per hour.
A cheetah can run up to 76 miles per hour, and can go from 0 to 68 miles per hour in less than three seconds.

The radius of the moon is approximately 1,079.6 miles. (Try using π to find the
circumference — March 14th is also Pi Day!)
A year isn’t exactly 365 days -- it’s 365.2564 days! That’s why we have a leap year every four years.

(6 × 9) + (6 + 9) = 69.
If the radius and height of a pizza are “z” and “a”,
respectively, its volume equals Pi x z x z x a.

When writing down the number Pi rounded to 2


decimal places on the paper, and look it through a
mirror, we have a “Pie”.

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