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Math trivia e-book!
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The mathematical name for the division sign is called Obelus
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Did you know Giga stands for a Billion?
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Googol is the term used for the number 1 followed by 100 Zeros and was first used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta in 1940!
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5
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes about
1825 days to yield consumable product
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Greek math whiz Pythagoras noticed that the morning
star and evening star were one and the same in 530
B.C
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The number 2 is the only prime number that does not have an "e" in its name
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October 10th is celebrated as National Metric Day
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You will have to count up to one thousand to use the alphabet "A" in English
Language to spell a whole number
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Plus (+) and Minus (-) signs were first used by mathematicians in the
sixteenth century
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When you multiply 1089 by 9, the answer you get is 9801, which is the exact
reverse of the number 1089
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A Icosahedron is a geometric shape that has twenty (20) equal sides
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13
The lifespan of a taste bud is ten days. That is
240 hours
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"Four" is the only number in the English language that is spelled with the same number of letters as
the number itself
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15
When you multiply 111,111,111 by
111,111,111, you get 12,345,678,987,654,321
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The record for most snowfall in a day, 78 inches, happened on February 7, 1916 in
Alaska. It is equal to a person as tall as 6.5
feet!
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Ollie, the Mascot !