Mathematics: The Poetry Of Logical Ideas

 

“What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature,” Shakuntala Devi.

 

Everything around us comprises mathematics in some of the other forms. From Banking to economics and supermarkets to taxes, everything depends upon this subject. 

 

Facts related to mathematics

 

Mathematics, it turns up, is a million times more intriguing than Pythagoras’ most complicated equation. It has loads of hidden secrets and facts, and they are brilliant to visualize. This blog deals with some of the facts about mathematics that you probably don’t know.

 

 

• There is only one prime number that is even: It is Two because all other even numbers are divisible by it only. 

 

• The only number that we can’t write in Roman numerals is zero: Roman numerals do not have any zeroes. Although the Athenians were aware of the notion of zero, they did not see zero as a numeral. The Latin term “nulla” would have been used to express the notion of zero instead of a Roman numeral.

 

• The Roman Numerals were Created for Trading. The method of record-keeping was widely utilized across the Roman Empire for daily operation, allowing Romans to quickly value various products and services. Roman numerals were continuously employed across Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. It, however, came to an end in the 1600s.

 

• Only one number that has the same number of letters as itself spelt out: Well, it’s four. Surprising, isn’t it?

 

• Theory of perfect number: The smallest perfect number is six. A perfect number is a positive integer that equals the sum of its positive divisors in number theory. Six is the least perfect number according to this criterion. (1 + 2 + 3 = 6.). The number that follows is 28.

 

 

• The Fibonacci Number Sequence Can Be Found in Nature: The sum of two preceding integers in the sequence is used to generate this sequence, which starts at 0 and 1. For instance: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and so on. The series was discovered by putting the breeding process of rabbits to the test. Also, the American prog metal band Tool’s song “Lateralus” is composed in time with the Fibonacci Sequence.

 

• 9 is a magic number: When you multiply an integer by nine and add all of the new number’s digits together, the result is always 9. As an example: 9*9=81; 8+1=9 or 4*9=36; 3+6=9.

 

• Six Weeks are equal to 10! Seconds: Here! denotes factorial. The product of all positive integers less than or equal to n is the factorial of a non-negative integer n, represented by n! in mathematics. 

 

That is, 10 × 9 × 8 × 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 3,628,800 seconds = 60,480 minutes = 1,008 hours = 42 days = 6 weeks.

 

 

• There Isn’t Enough Space on the Planet to Write a Googolplex: A googol is defined as one followed by one hundred zeros. 1 preceded by a googol zeros is a googolplex. If it’s difficult to comprehend how long that number would be, it’s because writing it out would result in a figure so large that if it were written down and published in a volume series of books, it would weigh more than the whole globe.

 

• More ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on the planet: A deck of cards may be sorted in an estimated 8 × 1,067 different ways. That’s an 8 with 67 zeros behind it. To put that in context, even if someone could flip a deck of cards every second of the universe’s whole existence, the cosmos would die before they could locate even one billionth of a repetition.”

 

• Some other Facts: 

 

 

 

1. 111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
2. We consider odd numbers to be masculine and even numbers to be feminine.
3. For a Pizza with Radius “z” and Height “a”, the volume will be PI * z * z * a. 
4. The only prime numbers that end in 2 and 5 are 2 and 5.
5. The “Pythagoras Constant” is the square root of two.
6. Exponential growth’s strength is mind-boggling. By folding a 0.01mm piece of paper 45 times, you can almost reach the moon.
7. 257,885,161-1, a 17,425,170-digit number, is the biggest prime number discovered so far. One of the PCs required 39 days of continuous computation to verify that it was prime.
8. There is an “e” in every odd number.
9. The only number with the letter ‘A’ in it from 0 to 1000 is ‘one thousand.’

 

Key Takeaways 

 

The above stated are some of the facts of mathematics. There are many more, which makes this subject exceptionally well compared to other topics, and one must understand and study it in place of rote memorization.

 

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