80 interesting facts about Mathematics that will surprise, entertain and educate

you.

Four is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning

F,O,U,R.
A number is divisible by 9 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 9.

9,18,27,36,45...
The number zero does not have its own Roman numeral

IX,XV,CM,VII...
Think to yourself 'How I wish I could calculate pi' and then count the letters in each of the words of that sentence. You now have a way of
remembering the first seven digits of pi: 3.141592.

π
There are lots of pi facts on the Pi Day page.

The first number to contain the letter a is 'one thousand'. See A NUMBERfor the discussion behind this fact.

1,000
The only number to have its letters in alphabetical order is forty. See Alphanumbetical and try to think of other alphanumbetical mathematical words!

Forty
The numbers on opposite sides of a dice add up to seven.

There are more than 64 squares on a chess board. If you count the squares made up of multiple squares there are 204 altogether. There is one 8x8
square, four 7x7 squares, nine 6x6 squares, 16 5x5 squares, 25 4x4 squares, 36 3x3 squares, 49 2x2 squares and 64 1x1 squares.
A prime number has exactly two factors. Two is the only even prime number and it is also the only prime number not to contain the letter 'e'.

2
It should take no more than 20 moves to solve a Rubiks cube no matter which of the 43 quintillion possible starting positions you begin with.

A dodecahedron has twelve pentagonal sides.

A googol is one followed by one hundred zeros. This can be written as:

10100 .

Not many people appreciate (or understand) the mind-blowing fact that:

eiπ = -1
Triangles, squares and hexagons are the only regular polygons that tessellate.
 Check for yourself at the Tessellations page.

The equals sign was invented in 1557 by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde. The word 'equal' is from the Latin word aequalis as meaning uniform,
identical, or equal.

=
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321.

These two fractions add up to one and between them they contain all of the digits from nought to nine. It is the only way that this can be done.

Eight comes first if all the numbers are arranged alphabetically. What number would come last?

8
More numbers begin with the digit one than any other digit. This result has been found to apply to a wide variety of data sets, including electricity bills,
street addresses, stock prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers and mathematical constants. This fact was famously attributed to
physicist Frank Benford, who stated it in 1938, although it had been previously stated by Simon Newcomb in 1881.

Alice in Wonderland learns that in a class of 23 pupils the probability that two have the same birthday is more than a half. Alice is a fictional character
created by author and mathemetician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).

42 is the answer to the 'Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything' according to 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' created by Douglas
Adams.
 18 is the only number that is twice the sum of its digits.

Most clocks which have Roman numerals on their face use IIII for four instead of the more familiar IV.

There are currently over 7 billion people in the world and the number is growing very quickly. To see just how quickly have a look at our population
counter.

Any number to the power zero is 1, and zero to any power is 0. The only unanswered question here is what is zero to the power zero?

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The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers where each term is the sum of the previous two terms. The first two terms are both one. The ratio
of the nth term to the next term gets closer to the golden ratio as n increases.

Air France, Iberia, Ryanair, AirTran, Continental Airlines, and Lufthansa don’t have a row 13 on their airlines because they are aware that many of their
passengers consider 13 to be an unlucky number. Many office blocks, office buildings and hotels do not have a 13th floor for the same reason.

The following three consecutive numbers are the lowest that are divisible by cubes other than 1:

1375; 1376; 1377

(divisible by the cubes of 5, 2 and 3 respectively).

The digits of the number are the same as the digits of the power of ten in these cases:

1.3712885742 = 100.13712885742
237.5812087593 = 102.375812087593
3550.2601815865 = 103.5502601815865

The polar diameter of the Earth is quite close to (within 0.1%) half a billion inches.
The first time a digit repeats six times in succession in pi is at the 762nd position where you can find six nines in a row. This is known as the Feynman
Point.

The term googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeroes) was first used by a 9- year old boy,Milton Sirotta, in 1938.

Trivia submitted by Paul Christian Sarmiento, Philippines

As weird as it may seem at first glance, f(x) = -1/(x+1) and g(x) = x/(x+1) have the same derivative.

Trivia submitted by Shiraz Dagia, Malawi

A number if multiply by 11 is just you bring down the last digits add the digit to the number on it's left and bring down the first number.
Example:
(15)(11)=---
Bring down 5
(15)(11)=--5
Then, 5+1=6
(15)(11)=-65
Last bring down the first digit which is 1
So,(15)(11)=165.

Trivia submitted by Jericho Fernandez, Laguna, Philippines

There is a number smaller than 'a thousand' or 'a hundred and one' with the letter a - it is any number like 0.001 or 'one thousandth' which is smaller
than 101 or 1000. These decimals can get infinitely smaller so the proper term for the trivia should be that the smallest whole number not just the
smallest number.

Trivia submitted by QA, Makaben

You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word's letters in
'May I have a large container of coffee?'.

Trivia submitted by Ms. Prescott,

Trivia improves critical thinking.

Trivia submitted by Wisani, Gauteng, South Africa

A googolplex is a googola googol, or (10100) to the power(10100).

Trivia submitted by Anonymous, Planet Earth

40 when written in words "forty" is the only number with letters in alphabetical order, while one is the only one with letters in reverse order.

Trivia submitted by Dustin Joseph C. Manalo, Bulacan,Philippines

The number 0 is originally called cipher.

Trivia submitted by Paras, Philipines

The billionth digit of Pi (3.1415 ...) is 9.

Trivia submitted by Joy, Manila, Philippines

 What is the correct mathematical name of the division bar in a fraction? The answer is VINCULUM.

Trivia submitted by Lovely Tinam-isan, Muntinlupa, Philippines

The term "jiffy" is an actual unit of time which is the 1/100th of a second.

Trivia submitted by Josh Anilov C. Funelas, Manila, Philippines

The value of zero was first used by the ancient Indian mathematician Aryabhata.

Trivia submitted by Wency Orbina, Philippines

2520 is the smallest number that is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10.

Trivia submitted by MathWizard, Phillipines

Moving each letter of the word 'yes' 16 places further up the alphabet produces the word 'oui', the French for 'yes'.

Trivia submitted by Greg Ross, Futility Closet

Forty-two percent of Slovenian two-year-olds know the number two, while only four percent of English two-year-olds do.

Trivia submitted by Francie Diep, Popular Science

The word 'twelve' is worth 12 points in Scrabble. .

Trivia submitted by Greg Ross, Futility Closet

The words 'ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king' contain 52 letters. There are 52 cards in a pack (excluding jokers).

Trivia submitted by Greg Ross, Futility Closet

If you square11111111 the answer would be 123456787654321. (count the number of 1s and that's the middle number).

Trivia submitted by Ranz Louie Ricasa, Philippines

The polygon with 1000000 sides is called megagon.

Trivia submitted by Ranz Louie Ricasa, Philippines

99*99=9801
999*999=998001
9999*9999=99980001
99999*99999=9999800001.

Trivia submitted by Ranz Louie Ricasa, Philippines

 If you find the difference between the number of edges and the number of faces of the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron and other solid shapes, the
results will always be 2.

Trivia submitted by Ranz Louie Ricasa, Olongapo City,Philippines

The second hand on a clock is actually the minute hand.

Trivia submitted by Will, Northampton, England

If you write out pi to two decimal places, backwards it spells “pie”.

Found from buzzfeed.

Trivia submitted by Me, England

The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape of constant width, the simplest and best known such curve other than a circle.

Trivia submitted by Manuel Henryk Fabunan, Philippines

The mathematical name for # (number sign) is octothorpe.

Trivia submitted by Kz Fernandez, Philippines

Can you find two numbers without a final 0 that have a product of 10, 100, 1000, 10000 etc. Here is a method:

Let's start with 5*2=10

5(5)*2(2)=25*4=100
25(5)*4(2)=125*8=1000
125(5)*8(2)=625*16=10000
and so on...

Trivia submitted by Ranz Louie Ricasa, Olongapo City,Philippines

Did you know there are five hundred and twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes in a year? This special number is the main 'hook' of the song
Seasons of Love written for the musical Rent.

In the year 1514 the German artist Albrecht Dürer created an engraving called Melencolia with a magic square in the background. The image below
shows an enlargement of the magic square. The date appears in the bottom row of the magic square.
 Using consecutive whole numbers and counting rotations and reflections of a given square as being the same there are precisely:

1 magic square of size 3 × 3

880 magic squares of size 4 × 4
275,305,224 magic squares of size 5 × 5.

For the 6×6 case, there are estimated to be approximately 1.77 × 1019squares.

This trivia is from the excellent book by Professor Ian Stewart called Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities.

Zero is the number with the most names or synonyms. It is also known as nought, naught, ow, nil, zilch, zip, diddly-squat, love and scratch.

0
Did you know that if you add 429 and 138 the answer is 567? The calculation contains the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

[Transum: There are another 335 ways to construct a similar calculation. Have a go at finding them using the Nine Digit Sum drag-and-drop activity.]

Trivia submitted by April Jean Elumba, University Of Southern Mindanao

 J and K are the only letters not in any of the numbers when written as words.

Trivia submitted by Theo,

Using only addition, you can add 8's to get the number 1,000 by:
888+88+8+8+8=1,000.

Trivia submitted by Nightshade, Iligan City

The word Trivia comes from the Latin meaning three ways (tri is the prefix for three). At a three way junction there would be a signpost giving
information about each direction. This information could be called trivia!

There are exactly 8! (eight factorial) minutes in four weeks.

This is calculated as follows: 4x7x24x60

= 8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1

= 8!

All ten digit pandigital numbers are divisible by 3 (a pandigital number contains all the digits 0 to 9).

[You can find out more about tests for divisibility here.]

King's Cross station in London has a platform zero! It is the longest platform at the station.

The number 2 is the only prime number that doesn't have the letter e in its name.

Trivia submitted by Origaminess, Naperville

Did you know that rather than (in the UK) having 1p, 2p, 5p etc. coins it would be mathematically more efficient to have 1p, 3p, 11p and 37p coins?

Trivia submitted by No Such Thing As A Fish, Podcast

There are 385072 ways of arranging the numbers 1 - 18 in a circle so that the sum of each pair of adjacent numbers is prime.

Try to find just one of them on the Prime Pairs Game page.

The number 8549176320 is special as it contains all of the digits in alphabetical order.

Attitude is the only word that add up to 100 percent when you add up it point value. For example a=1 b=2 c=3.

Trivia submitted by Seltman Hayes, Michigan

153, 370, 371 and 407 are the only three-digit numbers equal to the sum of the cubes of their digits.

Any four digit number typed by using four calculator keys at the corners of a rectangle is a multiple of eleven.

There is more about this fact on the Key Eleven page.

Here's a useful counterintuitive fact: one 18 inch pizza has more 'pizza' than two 12 inch pizzas.
Area of 18" pizza is π × 92 = 254 square inches.
Area of two 12" pizzas is 2π × 62 = 226 square inches.

Trivia submitted by Fermat's Library, Twitter

The volume of a deep-pan pizza with radius Z and depth A is

Pi × Z × Z × A
Equilateral Triangle
Number of sides: 3
Angle sum: 180o
Interior angle: 60o
Exterior angle: 120o

Square

Number of sides: 4
Angle sum: 360o
Interior angle: 90o
Exterior angle: 90o

Pentagon (regular)

Number of sides: 5
Angle sum: 540o
Interior angle: 108o
Exterior angle: 72o

Hexagon (regular)

Number of sides: 6
Angle sum: 720o
Interior angle: 120o
Exterior angle: 60o

Heptagon (regular)

Number of sides: 7
Angle sum: 900o
Interior angle: 129o
Exterior angle: 51o
... to the nearest degree.

Octagon (regular)

Number of sides: 8
Angle sum: 1080o
Interior angle: 135o
Exterior angle: 45o

Nonagon (regular)

Number of sides: 9
Angle sum: 1260o
Interior angle: 140o
Exterior angle: 40o

Decagon (regular)
 Number of sides: 10
Angle sum: 1440o
Interior angle: 144o
Exterior angle: 36o

Undecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 11
Angle sum: 1620o
Interior angle: 147o
Exterior angle: 33o
... to the nearest degree.

Dodecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 12
Angle sum: 1800o
Interior angle: 150o
Exterior angle: 30o

Tridecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 13
Angle sum: 1980o
Interior angle: 152o
Exterior angle: 28o
... to the nearest degree.

Tetradecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 14
Angle sum: 2160o
Interior angle: 154o
Exterior angle: 26o
... to the nearest degree.

Pentadecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 15
Angle sum: 2340o
Interior angle: 156o
Exterior angle: 24o
... to the nearest degree.

Hexadecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 16
Angle sum: 2520o
Interior angle: 158o
Exterior angle: 23o
... to the nearest degree.
 Heptadecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 17
Angle sum: 2700o
Interior angle: 159o
Exterior angle: 21o
... to the nearest degree.

Octadecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 18
Angle sum: 2880o
Interior angle: 160o
Exterior angle: 20o
... to the nearest degree.

Enneadecagon (regular)

Number of sides: 19
Angle sum: 3060o
Interior angle: 161o
Exterior angle: 19o
... to the nearest degree.

Icosagon (regular)

Number of sides: 20
Angle sum: 3240o
Interior angle: 162o
Exterior angle: 18o
... to the nearest degree.
1. In 1988, Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) invented a method of beating a different rhythm with
each arm–created a new composition by identifying each note in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
with a number, and then playing the square root of each note.

2. The symbol for infinity (∞) was used by the Romans to represent 1000.

3. All palindromes with even number of digits are divisible by 11.

4. The earliest evidence of a numerical recording device is a section of a fibula of a baboon, with
29 visible notches, dated to about 35000 BC, from a cave in the Lebombo mountains on the
borders of Swaziland in Southern Africa.

5. The number 365 is equal to the sum of three consecutive squares and two consecutive squares
in which the five squares are also consecutive.

365 = 102 + 112 + 122 = 132 + 142

6. £12 12 shillings 8 pence = 12128 farthings

7. Interesting number relationships:

12 + 42 + 62 + 72 = 22 + 32 + 52 + 82 = 102

1 + 4 + 6 + 7 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 8 = 18

8. Each fraction of the following equation contains all the digits 1 through 9 only once.

9. There are 293 ways to make change for a $1 using pennies, nickels, dimes quarters and half-
dollars.

10. 13177388 = 71 + 73 + 71 + 77 + 77 + 73 + 78 + 78

11. 169 is equal to 132 and its reverse 961 is equal to 312.

12. 206156734 = 26824404 + 153656394 + 187967604. This is an integer solution for the
equation w4 = x4 + y4 + z4 found by Noam Elkies.

20.

21. A tablet from Susa, dating from the period 1900-1650 BC, uses the Pythagorean theorem to
find the circumradius of a triangle whose sides are 50, 50, 60. Pythagoras himself lived in the
sixth century BC.

22. 8114118 is a palindrome and the 8114118th prime, 143787341, is also a palindrome.

23. If you concatenate all the palindromes from 1 to 101, the number produced would be prime!
In other words, the number 123456789112233445566778899101 is prime.

24. Perfect squares are the only numbers with an odd number of divisors.

Perfect Squares
25. From 0 to 1000, only the number “one thousand” has the letter “A”.

26. Saint Hubert is the patron saint of mathematicians.

27.

28. When the English mathematician Augustus de Morgan was asked for his age, he would
reply, “I was x years of age in the year x²” (He was 43 in 1849)

29. 14641 = (1 + 4 + 6)4 × 1

30. There is only one long division extant in the entire corpus of Greek mathematics.

31. Newton is on record as speaking only once when a member of parliament, to ask that a
window be opened.

32. Newton’s annotated copy of Barrow’s Euclid was sold at auction in 1920 for five shillings.
Shortly thereafter, it appeared in a dealer’s catalog marked as £500.

33. The square of 204 is equal to the sum of consecutive cubes 23, 24 and 25.

34. A knight’s tour order-8 magic square has been proven to not exist.

35. 1666666666661 is the smallest prime number which contains 11 6’s and it’s palindromic too!

36. 22273 is the largest prime in the Bible and it’s aptly in Number 3:43.

37. Except for 2 and 3, if you add and subtract 1 to any prime number, one of the results is
always divisible by 6.

38.

39. The Chinese were the first who used negative numbers around 2200 years ago or maybe
even earlier.

40. Cardan (1501-1576) described negative numbers as “fictions” and their square roots as
“sophistic”, and a complex root of a quadratic, which he had calculated, as being “as subtle that
it is useless”.

41. If , then .
42. -40 °C is equal to -40 °F.

Via

43. Aside from 144 being the only square Fibonacci number. It is also the 12th Fibonacci
number. Note that 12 is the square root of 144.

44. (9999998+0000001)2 = 99999980000001

45. In chess, there are 4897256 total possible positions after 5 moves by both players.

46. 165033 = 163 + 503 + 333

47. The probability that the thirteenth day of the month being Friday is the highest.

48. Richard Recorde is credited with inventing the equal sign (=) in 1557.

49. 3864 = 3 × (-8 + 64)

50.

51. There is a combination of 26,830 possible Tic-tac-toe games, excluding reflections and
rotations.

52.

53. Every odd number contains the letter “e” in the English language.
54.

55. There are 40320 minutes or 8! minutes in 4 weeks.

56. There are 3628800 seconds or 10! seconds in 6 weeks.

57. 3! × 5! × 7! = 6! × 7! = 10!

58.

59.

60. Given any four consecutive Fibonacci numbers w, x, y and z, yz – wx forms the hypotenuse,
and 2xy and wzform the two other sides of the right triangle.

61. 40585 = 4! + 0! + 5! + 8! + 5!. This is the largest number in base 10 that is the sum of the
factorials of its digits. the only others are 1, 2 and 145.

62.

63.

64. The polar diameter of the Earth is approximately equal to half a billion inches, accurate to
0.1%.

65. 216 = 65536 might be the only power of 2 in base 10 that does not contain any digit that is a
power of two, i.e., 1, 2, 4 or 8.

66.

67. Aside from 0 and 1, 82000 (in base 10) is the only number that can be expressed with 0’s
and 1’s in bases 2, 3, 4 and 5.

820002 = 10100000001010000
820003 = 11011111001
820004 = 110001100
820005 = 10111000

68. 122 × 213 = 25986. Interestingly, if you reverse 122 and 213, their product would also be the
reverse of 25986.

221 × 312 = 68952

69. While we use the base 10 number system (decimal), the Mayans counted by 20’s
(vigesimal).

Mayan Numeral

70. The product of two primes can never be a perfect square.

71. 63945 = 63 × (-9 + 45)

72. The sum of any 14 consecutive Fibonacci numbers is divisible by 29.

73. the difference between the time of a sundial and a standard clock is called “the equation of
time”.

74. People back then believe that the number of grains of sand is limitless.
However, Archimedes argued in The Sand Reckoner that the number of grains of sand is not
infinite. He then gave a method for calculating the highest number of grains of sand that can fit
into the universe, which was approximately 1063 grains of sand in his calculation.

Via

75. Curiously, the number of nucleons in the observable universe of roughly the Hubble
universe is approximately 1080 (this is also known as the Eddington number).
Archimedes’ 1063 grains of sand is approximately equivalent to 1080 nucleons.

76. It is impossible to square the circle since the area of the circle is based on π, which is a
transcendental number. Therefore, a person who obsessively insists on “squaring the circle” is
said to be suffering from morbus cyclometricus.

77. The mathematician G. H. Hardy doesn’t like mirrors. He even covered the mirrors in any
hotel rooms that he entered.

G. H. Hardy

78. 99 is the largest number that can be formed by using three digits without the use of any other
9

symbols. It consists of 369693100 digits!

79.

80. 27 × 594 = 16038. This is the only solution for a pandigital multiplication with a pattern of
2, 3 and 5 digits in this form. Also, notice that 27 is a factor of 594.
81. If you multiply all the divisors of 48 together, it would yield 484.

82. 34425 = 34 × 425

83. 1023 – 23 is the largest 23-digit prime. It is equal to 99999999999999999999977.

84.

85. 121 and 4 are the only squares that become cubes when increased by 4 (Discovered by
Fermat).

121 + 4 = 53; 4 + 4 = 23

86. The first seven digits of the golden ratio (1618033) concatenated is prime!

87.

88. 7 x 11 x 13 x 17 x 19 = 323323. The product of five consecutive primes yielding a palindrome.

89. Moreover, using the same five consecutive prime numbers, the sum of their squares is also a
palindromic number!

72 + 112 + 132 + 172 + 192 = 989

90. Some mathematical celebrations: March 14 – Pi Day; June 28 – Tau Day; October 10 –
Metric Day.

91. If you stack one dollar bills equivalent to the approximate debt of the U.S. government, then
the dollar bills would reach the moon five times over!

92. The symbol for division (÷) is called obelus.

93. On the other hand, the division slash (/) is called virgule.

94. When you multiply 21978 by 4, the product is the reversal of the number.

21978 × 4 = 87912

95. Negative numbers don’t have logarithms.

96. 987 × (9 + 8 + 7) + 1 and 987 × (9 + 8 + 7) – 1 are both primes. This is the only 3-digit
number with consecutive descending digits that has this property.

97. 18 is the only number that is twice the sum of its digits. (18: 1 + 8 = 9: 9 × 2 = 18)
98. 11 is the only palindromic prime with an even number of digits.

99. The Babylonian mile is approximately equal to 11.3 km (about 7 miles).

100.

101.

A 3-digit result of any number You can remember the value

multiplied by 11 has its middle digit the sum of of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word's
other two, like: letters in "May I have a large container of
21 × 11 = 231 (2+1=3) coffee?"
13 × 11 = 143 (1+3=4)
44 × 11 = 484 (4+4=8)
...etc.Submitted by: Catrine Montano - Surigao, Philippines

1 × 8 + 1 = 9
12 × 8 + 2 = 98
The value of zero was first used by 123 × 8 + 3 = 987
the ancient Indian 1234 × 8 + 4 = 9876
mathematician Aryabhata.Submitted by: Sundara Moorthy - 12345 × 8 + 5 = 98765
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India
123456 × 8 + 6 = 987654
... (Multiplication & Succession.)Submitted by:
Moi, Canada.

The sum of the digits of a number

which is a multiple of 9 is always 9, ie,
45 : 4+5 = 9 142857 is a cyclic number, i.e.,
1980 : 1+9+8+0=18 : 1+8 = 9 its digits are rotated around when multiplied
214164 : 2+1+4+1+6+4=18 : 1+8 = 9 by any number from 1 to 6. Like this:
etc.Submitted by: Vighneswar - India 142857 × 1 = 142857
142857 × 5 = 7 14285
142857 × 4 = 57 1428
142857 × 6 = 857 142
142857 × 2 = 2857 14
142857 × 3 = 42857 1
9 × 9 + 7 = 88
Submitted by: Moi, Canada.
98 × 9 + 6 = 888
987 × 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 × 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 × 9 + 3 = 888888
... (Multiplication & Succession.)Submitted by: Tyler -
United States

1089 multiplied by 9 gives an

exact reverse: 9801.
The implicit curve equation (x2+y2-
1)3-x2y3=0 produces the heart shape.Submitted by:
Hyde - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

From 0 to 1000, the letter "A"

only appears in 1000("one thousand").Submitted
by: Ramil Argete
The term Googol (10100, ie, 10 followed
by 100 zeros) was invented by a 9-year old
boy Milton Sirotta.Submitted by: Cynthia - San Francisco,
California, United States
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
The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape 2, is not a Prime.
of constant width other than a circle.Submitted by:
Adarsh - Guraon, India

1 × 9 + 2 = 11
12 × 9 + 3 = 111
17 689 = 1332 123 × 9 + 4 = 1111
177 6889 = 13332 1234 × 9 + 5 = 11111
1777 68889 = 133332 12345 × 9 + 6 = 111111
17777 688889 = 1333332 ... (Multiplication & Succession.)Submitted by:
... Submitted by: Laxmana Perumal - Nagercoil, India Rob

The Seven Unsolved Millennium 40 when written "forty" is the

Prize Math Problems are: only number with letters in alphabetical
1. P versus NP problem order, while "one" is the only one with letters
2. Hodge Conjecture in reverse order.
3. Poincaré 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 US dollar can be made into small

change in 293 ways.

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 1-100consecutively (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 17,425,170 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.

Trivia

The numeral zero was originally called cipher.

Both words derive from the Sanskrit word sunya,
which means void.

Hypatia of Alexandria (b. 370? - d.415 A.D.)

was the first woman in recorded history
known to have taught mathematics –
a field of science most women at that time
were forbidden to learn.
She was murdered for this heresy
by a band of fanatical monks;
her treatises on math
were destroyed during the burning
of the great Library of Alexandria.

The Egyptians,
one of the first civilizations to use mathematics,
created symbols to represent numbers.
A rod represented number one,
a heal bone stood for ten,
a snare for 100,
a lotus flower for 1,000,
a bent finger for 10,000,
a fish for 100,000,
and a kneeling figure for 1,000,000.
 The Mayans devised a method of counting
using only three symbols:
a dot, a bar and a shell (which stood for ‘zero’).
The highest number found in a Mayan inscription
is 1,814,639,800 days or 5,100,000 years!

The Mayan number ‘15’

What is three arms + five bones?

Answer: Five hearts, of course.
In Aztec arithmetic, that is!
The Aztec’s system of arithmetic
was not decoded until 2008.
The Aztecs used symbols
such as
hearts, hands, arms, bones and arrows
to stand for fractions.

Both the Aztecs and the Mayans calculated in base 20.

The earliest calculating device in the world is generally thought to be the Chinese abacus.

Mathematician Robert Recorde

developed the equal sign (=) in 1557.

In 1938, at the age of nine,

Milton Sirotta created the term ‘googol’
to represent the number 1
with one hundred zeros following it.

Pi (pronounced ‘pie’)
represents the circumference of a circle.
Pi = 3.1415926535…
Pi has been calculated
to over 1 trillion numbers
past the decimal point.
The number will continue infinitely
without repeating

National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59.

The holiday even has its own website:
http://www.piday.org

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 What five-digit number,
when multiplied by 4,
is the same number
with the digits in reverse order?
21978!
21978 x 4 = 87912.

If you wanted to count to a million

and each count lasted one second,
it would take you
twelve days
to reach your goal.
How long would it take
to count to a billion?
Thirty-two years!

40 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.

[FORTY]

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

If you add up the numbers

1-100 consecutively,
(1+2+3+4+5, etc)
the total is
5050.