Some Unusual Numerical Factoid Fun For Friday

“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

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We’ve had ‘beautiful’ numbers and ‘big’ numbers on this blog. Today it’s time for some ‘unusual’ ones.

 

Did you know….

 

 

That ‘1’ is the only positive whole number that you can add to 1,000,000 and you get an answer that’s bigger than if you multiply it by 1,000,000,

i.e. 1 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000  but  1 + 1,000,000 = 1,000,001

Go ahead try it with other whole numbers.

 

 

That there are 12,988,816 different ways to cover a chess board with 32 dominoes.

 

 

That sixty-nine squared = 69² = 4761 and sixty-nine cubed = 69³ = 328509, and that these two answers use all the digits from 0 to 9 between them.

 

 

That you can chop a big lump of cheese into a maximum of 93 bits with 8 straight cuts

 

 

That in the English language ‘forty’ is the only number that has all of its letters in alphabetical order.

 

 

That 13² = 169 and if you write both numbers backwards you get 31² = 961.

This also works with 12 because 12² = 144 and 21² =441.

 

 

That 1/1089 = 0·00091827364554637281… (And the numbers in the 9 times table are 0, 9,18,27,36…..)

 

 

That the number ‘four’ is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself.

 

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