Amazing Maths Facts

  • 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.)
  • 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.
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  • The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing' .
  • Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).
  • Here is an interesting trick to check divisibility of any number by number 3.A number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by three (3).
  • The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations.
  • Googol (meaning & origin of Google brand ) is the term used for a number 1 followed by 100 zeros and that it was used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta, in 1940.
  • The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’.
  • Abacus is considered the origin of the calculator.
  • Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides a die always add up to seven (7).