Thursday 10 November 2016

Intresting facts about mathematics

GOOGLE IS ALL ABOUT MATHS

The lifeline of today’s time, Google search engine is a term which is derived from word “googol” which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros which reflect infinite amount of search on the internet.

THE CRAZY MULTIPLICATION IN MATHS

Few interesting things about math is how crazy it gets with its function. For instance if you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 , this becomes equal to 12,345,678,987,654,321. The numbers seem like going in the same way over and over again.

0 IS AN EVEN NUMBER

I am sure many of you didn’t realize this and never answered this but 0 is an even number. This is hard for people to mentally categorize and therefore they take longer to decide.

CALULUS MEANS PEBBLES IN GREEK

The famous Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, used to have small rocks to signify numbers while working on mathematical equations. This led to origin of word Calculus which means pebbles in Greek.

PIZZA AND PIE ARE RELATED

I may look like someone who is ruining pizza for you but you will be amazed to know that the Pizza has a radius of “z” and height “a”, and therefore its volume is Pi x z x z x a which makes up Pizza. Interesting enough to enjoy little math with Pizza!!

REFERENCE: oh facts.com

No comments:

Post a Comment