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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Ok, it's trivia time. How many of these questions can you answer?
What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
How many equal sides ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
One followed by 3 zeros is called a thousand.
One followed by 6 zeros is a million.
One followed by 9 zeros is a billion.
Can you keep going?
Answers at the Tricks and Trivia page.
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
I had never given much thought to how area codes were selected. I always assumed they were random three digit numbers that, once upon a time, always had 0 or 1 as their middle digit. This morning I was browsing The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno’s Paradoxes ...
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