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FACTS ! by SAH

  • The word 'mathematics' comes from the Greek máthēma, which means learning, study, science.
  • What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
  • Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
  • Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals.
  • The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing' .
  • Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).
  • The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations.
  • If there are 50 students in a class then it's virtually certain that two will share the same birthday..
  • In 1995 in Taipei, citizens were allowed to remove ‘4’ from street numbers because it sounded like ‘death’ in Chinese. Many Chinese hospitals do not have a 4th floor.
  • The word "FRACTION" derives from the Latin " fractio - to break".
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