Some Interesting Math facts

• Dyscalculia means difficulty in learning arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, and learning maths facts.

• What comes after a million, billion and trillion?

           quadrillion

           quintillion

           sextillion

           septillion

           octillion

           nonillion

           decillion 

           undecillion.  

• Different names for the number 0 

          zero
          nought
          naught
          nil
          zilch 
          zip. 

• Zero is the only number that cannot be represented in Roman numeral.

• The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing' .  

• The = sign ("equal to sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. 

• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

• The word "FRACTION" derives from the Latin " fractio - to break"

• How to remember the value of pi (π) ?

                      value of  π = 3.1415926

                              This can be remembered by remembering the statement  'May I have a large container of coffee' The number of letters in each word  - 3.1415926, which is the value of pi.

 Source: makemegenius.com