Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it’s likely that you have come up with an order that is unique in human history! Something to think about next time you’re setting up to play “Go Fish.”
Did you realize that zero is an even number? It tends to take people longer to figure out whether it’s even or odd because it’s not as easy for us to mentally recognize.
Did you know that the word “hundred” is derived from the word “hundrath,” which actually means 120 and not 100!?
If you write pi out to two decimal places, it actually spells “pie” backwards. 3.14 = PIE.
From 1 to 1,000, the letter “A” only appears in 1,000 when written: “One thousand”.
Despite the subject not exclusively belonging to males, women are largely under-represented in Mathematics. Hypatia, for example, lived in Ancient Greece and is widely considered to be the first female mathematician through her work assisting her father and writing her own pieces.
Fun one to test out on your calculator. If you divide 1 by 998001, the answer will give you a complete sequence from 000 to 999.
Ada Lovelace was not only married to the famous engineer, Charles Babbage but was also a mathematician in her own right. She developed her husband’s work on the analytical engine and wrote what is now considered to be the first ever computer programme!
It’s believed that complex math, such as algebra, arithmetic, and geometry, date as far back as 3000 BC. Ancient Egyptians are thought to have used these kinds of equations to approximate the area of circles.
A “jiffy” is actually a unit of time. So, when someone says “See you in a jiffy,” what that translates to is “see you in 1/100th of a second.”
If you believe in magic, then you should check out the number 9. It is believed to be a magic number because if you multiply a number with 9, add all digits to resulting number, the sum would always come out to be 9. Give it a go!
We all know Florence Nightingale as the “lady with the lamp,” courtesy of the contributions she made to modern nursing. However, a lesser known fact about Nightingale is that she was also a pioneering statistician. She used statistics during her work in the Crimean War to show governments how soldiers were dying due to the conditions of the hospitals rather than the immediate wounds themselves
Here’s a bit of a tongue-twister… the series of “ions” goes: million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, and undecillion.
2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers between 1 to 10.
