Did you know about maths?
Some cool trivia related to the things that make mathematics such an interesting subject. Find facts about the golder ratio, pi!,geometry, prime numbers and much more. Read on and have fun learning about maths!
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arethmetic, and geometry as far back as 3000 BC.
- It wasn't until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equation were written in words, making it very time consuming.
- An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.
- The name of popular search engine 'google'came from a misspelling of the word google, which is a very, very large number. ( by one hundred zeros to be exact)
- It was mathematician William Shanks who calculated the value of PI which was to 707 places but he made a mistake on the 528th digit and henceforth incorrectly calculating every digit after that. PI is therefore not a fraction and this makes it irrational number which neither repeats nor does it end when written as a decimal.
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In India mathematics and NCERT quite tricky but as well as they gave us great knowledge about mathematics I loved to do maths even I am PCM student hahaha that's all
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