Mathematics Facts & Trivia

The term Googol (10100, ie, 10 followed by 100 zeros) was invented by a 9year old boyMilton Sirotta.Submitted by: Cynthia - San Francisco, California, United States

The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape of constant width other than a circle.Submitted by: Adarsh - Guraon, India 17 689 = 1332 177 6889 = 13332 1777 68889 = 133332 17777 688889 = 1333332 177777 6888889 = 13333332 ... Submitted by: Laxmana Perumal - Nagercoil, India

The Seven UnsolvedMillennium Prize Math Problems are: 1. P versus NP problem 2. Hodge Conjecture 3. Poincar conjecture (solved in 2002) 4. Riemann Hypothesis 5. Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap 6. Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness 7. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer ConjectureSubmitted by: Ravi - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

The Fibonacci sequence are numbers where each following number is the sum of the previous two: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 ... Submitted by: Matt - California, United States

A Palindrome Number is a number that reads the same backwards and forward, e.g.13431.Submitted by: Yusuf - Victoria, Australia A dollar can be made into small change in293 ways.

You can remember the value of Pi(3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in "May I have a large container of coffee?" Multiplication and succession: 18+1=9 12 8 + 2 = 98 123 8 + 3 = 987 ... and so on. Submitted by: Moi, Canada.

142857 is a cyclic number, i.e., its digits are rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. Like this: 142857 1 = 142857 142857 5 = 7 14285 142857 4 = 57 1428 142857 6 = 857 142 142857 2 = 2857 14 142857 3 = 42857 1

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1089 multiplied by 9 gives an exact reverse: 9801. From 0 to 1000, the letter "A" only appears in 1000 ("one thousand"). Submitted by: Ramil Argete

2 is called the "oddest" Even-Prime number. 2 is a unique Even-Prime because while all Evens are divisible by 2, any number apart from 2 that is divisible by 2, is not a Prime. 1 9 + 2 = 11 12 9 + 3 = 111 123 9 + 4 = 1111 ... ... and so on. Submitted by: Rob

40 when written "forty" is the only number with letters in alphabetical order, while "one" is the only one with letters in reverse order. Submitted by: Rob

1 googol = 10100 1 googolplex = 10googol = 1010100 (The "Google" website name was inspired by "Googol".) 111 111 111 111 111 111 = 12345678 9 87654321 Pi (3.14159...) is a number that cannot be written as a fraction. Submitted by: Tiff - Witherbee, United States

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. Submitted by: Ramesh - Pune, India

21978 when multiplied by 4 is the same number with digits in reverse order: 21978 4 = 87912

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5...) the total is 5050. The billionth digit of Pi is 9.

1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.

2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.

The largest known prime number (so far) is 12,978,189 digits long. Submitted by: Mathguy

The digits to the right of the Pi's (3.141...) decimal point can keep going forever, and there is no pattern to these digits at all

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