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13. Zero is not represented in Roman numerals.
14. The word “mathematics” only appears in one Shakespearean play, “The Taming of the Shrew”.
15. -40 °C is equal to -40 °F.
16. In France, a pie chart is sometimes referred to as a “camembert”.
17. The symbol for division (i.e.÷) is called an obelus.l
18. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
19. A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It means 1/100th of a second
20. If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, it’s more than likely that the exact order of the cards you get has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.
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If you were to play a word association game with a school-aged child, you’d be pretty unlikely to get a response of ‘cool’ when you asked them what word first came into their mind when you said ‘maths’. Despite what some people may tell you, maths is far from dull. On the contrary, there are plen...
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