Intersesting Facts About The Maths
- The word ‘mathematics’ comes from the Greek máthēma, which means learning, study, science.
- Do you know a word known as Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia means difficulty in learning arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, and learning maths facts!
- In America, mathematics is known as ‘math’, they say that ‘mathematics’ functions as a singular noun so as per them ‘math’ should be singular too.
- Do you know ‘Mathematics’ is an anagram of ‘me asthmatic’ (An Anagram is word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging letter of other words or phrase.)
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Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC. - The word ‘hundrath’ in Old Norse (old language from where English language originated), from which word ‘hundred’ derives, meant not 100 but 120.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- The number 5 is pronounced as ‘Ha’ in Thai language.555 is also used by some as slang for ‘HaHaHa’.
- 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.
Intersesting Facts About The Maths
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