Numbers are in all places. Your age, home quantity, date of start, telephone quantity, the time. We use numbers every day with out excited about it. In case you do cease to assume, numbers and maths are fairly unbelievable!
2 is the one even prime quantity! It’s because all different even numbers are divisible by 2.
Numbers on the alternative aspect of a cube at all times equal 7.
An integer is a optimistic or detrimental complete quantity.
There’s no Roman numeral for zero.
A dozen is 12.
A baker’s dozen is 13!
A rating is 20.
Do you know that the British and People have totally different techniques for naming numbers over 1 million?
The quantity 4 is the one quantity with the identical variety of letters as its worth!
Within the phrase forty, the letters are organized in alphabetical order.
Between 0 and 1000, the one quantity with an ‘a’ in it’s one thousand.
All odd numbers include an ‘e’.
What number of days are there in a 12 months?
Annually has three hundred and sixty five days until it’s a bissextile year when there are 366.
What quantity is pi?
To 2 decimal locations, pi is 3.14.
What’s a googol?
A googol is 1 adopted by 100 zeros or 10100
What’s a Googolplex?
A googolplex is 1 adopted by a googol of zeros or 10googol
What’s a jiffy?
A jiffy is 1/a centesimal of a second!
What comes after a trillion?
A quadrillion comes after a trillion, adopted by:
Quintillion 1018
Sextillion 1021
Septillion 1024
Octillion 1027
Nonillion 1030
Decillion 1033
Undecillion 1036
Duodecillion 1039
What’s an imaginary quantity?
An imaginary quantity is a quantity that, when squared, has a detrimental end result.
What’s the Fibonacci sequence?
The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers the place every quantity is the sum of the 2 numbers that got here earlier than.
For instance:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34
Discovering maths in nature
Fibonacci numbers are generally seen in nature. The Romanesco Brocolli has flowers that kind repeating good spiral patterns known as fractals. Every bus is made up of smaller buds additionally organized in spirals. The variety of spirals is a Fibonacci quantity.
Fibonacci numbers are additionally seen in pinecones, petals, seed heads, shells and even spiral galaxies!
Final Up to date on February 8, 2024 by Emma Vanstone
