Thursday, March 5, 2020

10 Nerdy Math Facts from Arabic to Qoogol

10 Nerdy Math Facts from Arabic to Qoogol Here are 10 nerdy math facts from ancient Hindu-Arabic to modern day Qoogol. Enjoy ?? 1. The numerical digits we use today such as 1, 2, 3 etc. are based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed over 1000 years ago. 2. What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion. 3. The name of the popular search engine Google came from a misspelling of the word googol. Qoogol is the  number 1 followed by 100  zeros to be specific: 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 = One googol 4.  A googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can’t be written because there literally isnt enough room in the entire universe to fit it in! 5.  You can use different names for the number 0  like  zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch or  zip. 6. Here is Pi written to 100 decimal places: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 7.  The only number in English that is spelled with its letters in alphabetical order is forty. 8. 12 + 3 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100 9.   111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321 10.  In 2010 on World Maths Day, 1.13 million students from more than 235 countries set a record correctly answering 479,732,613 questions. Improve your Math skills and enjoy Math with our Math tutors!

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