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Facts about Mathematics

1) A Baseball diamond is a perfect rhombus. A rhombus is a parallelogram with opposite
equal acute angles, opposite equal obtuse angles and four equal sides.

2) The radius of the moon is approximately 1,079.6 miles.
3) A year isn't exactly 365 days -- it's 365.2564 days! That's why we have a leap year
every four years.
4) An average bathtub holds 80 gallons of water, while an Olympic-sized swimming pool
has 660,253 gallons of water.

5) Baking is mathematical and delicious! To make the perfect sugar cookie, follow a
simple ratio of 3:2:1, or 3 parts flour to 2 parts fat to 1 part sugar.
6) People tend to have about 100,000 hairs on their head, and you can lose around 50

to100 hairs every day.
7) Squirrels can run at about 20 miles per hour.

Aishwarya Dagadu Bhosale

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MATHEMATICAL FACTS!

1. ZERO (0) is the only number which cannot be represented by roman numerals.

2. Among all shapes with same perimeter, circle has smallest perimeter while among all
the shapes with same area, circle has largest area.
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3. A 'jiffy' is the actual unit of time for 1/100 of the second.
4. 12,345,678,987,654,321 is the product of 111,111,111 x 111,111,111.
5. Always when we roll a die the sum of opposite sides is (7).
6. Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages to explain in the three volume work
“principia mathematician”.
7. If a pizza has a radius 'z' and height 'A' the volume of cylinder is PI, times the radius

squared times height, that would mean a pizza would have a volume of….PI*z*z*a.
8. 'Forty' (40) is the only number with the letters in alphabetical order, while 'one'(1) is the
only one with letters in reverse order.

K. AISHWARYA

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