Math Facts – 65 Cool Facts About Math

Cool Math Facts

The Arabic numerals used in English were actually invented in India.

If you write pi to two decimal places, backwards it spells “pie”.

1089 * 9 = 9801.

A simple calculation error in the Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica went unnoticed for 300 years.

Camembert is a French word for pie chart.

9 is believed to be a magic number. It is because if you multiply a number with 9, add all digits to resulting number, the sum would always be 9.

The Fibonacci sequence is encoded in the number 1/89 i.e. 1/89 = 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0002 + 0.00003 + 0.000005 + 0.0000008 etc.

When we multiply 111,111,111 * 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

The number that is twice the sum of its digit is 18.

Mathematics is an anagram of ‘me asthamatic’.