Sunday, October 17, 2010

math trivia.. :)





  • Did you know that…..


  • 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321


  • 1,741,725 = 1 7 + 7 7 + 4 7 + 1 7 + 7 7 + 2 7 + 5 7


  • There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.


  • Assuming Rudolph is in front, there are 40,320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.


  • The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long

  • 2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5


  • 1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.


  • You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.


  • Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.
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