- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- A study has found that students who chew gum have better math test scores than those who do not.
- An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.
- FOUR is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself.
- 12,345,678,987,654,321 is the product of 111,111,111 x 111,111,111. Notice the sequence of the numbers 1 to 9 and back to 1.
- Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides of a die always add up to seven.
- . A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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- 555 is used by some in Thailand as slang for “hahaha”, because the word for “five” is pronounced “ha”.
- Zero is the only number that can’t be represented in Roman numerals.
- The most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, Paul Erdos, used amphetamine to fuel 20-hour number benders.