COOL INFO ABOUT MATH

1. “Eleven plus two” is an anagram of “twelve plus one” which is pretty fitting as the answer to both equations is 13.
2. Also, there are 13 letters in both “eleven plus two” and “twelve plus one”.
3. Zero is not represented in Roman numerals.
4. The word “mathematics” only appears in one Shakespearean play, “The Taming of the Shrew”.
portrait of Shakespeare
5. -40 °C is equal to -40 °F.
6. In France, a pie chart is sometimes referred to as a “camembert”.
7. The symbol for division (i.e.÷) is called an obelus.
8. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
9. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It means 1/100th of a second.
10. If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, it’s more than likely that the exact order of the cards you get has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe

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