Here are some of the mind-blowing facts about mathematics-
1.Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals.
2.The word “hundred” comes from the old Norse term, “hundrath”, which actually means 120 and not 100.
3. “Forty” is the only number that is spelt with letters arranged in alphabetical order.
4. From 0 to 1000, the only number that has the letter “a” in it is “one thousand”.
5.Zero is the only number with most number of the names. Zero is also called naught, nil, zilch, naught and zip.
6.India’s National Game Means “Twenty-Five”.
7.One of the most widespread superstitious beliefs is that the number 13 is unlucky. So common is this that many hotels and office buildings in Europe and the United States do not have a room number 13 or a floor 13.
8.The Square Root of Two is called “Pythagoras’ Constant.”
-Surely, you remember the Pythagorean Theorem from your 10th grade geometry class, but have you ever heard of Pythagoras’ Constant? Well, here’s the lowdown: The square root of 2 (1.41) is known as Pythagoras’ Constant. It’s also the first ever irrational number to be discovered.
-This all has to do with that Greek mathematician Pythagoras, and there is a fascinating history behind his famous theorem that they definitely did not teach you in high school—that Babylonian mathematicians discovered his famous theory 1,000 years before he did.
9.Six is the Smallest Perfect Number.
In number theory, a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors. By this rule, six is the smallest perfect number. If you scratched your head and said, “Huh?,” here’s an example to clarify:
1 + 2 + 3 = 6.
The next perfect number doesn’t occur until 28. It turns out perfection really is few and far between…
10.There’s not enough room in the world to write out a Googolplex.
A googol means 1 followed by 100 zeroes. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeroes. If it’s hard to imagine how long that number would look, there’s good reason for that: to write it out would create a number that’s so huge, if you wrote it out and printed it in a volumed series of books, it would weigh more than the entire planet.