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20 Math Trivia-WPS Office
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
A: The numerator.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the
same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
A: A quadrilateral.
A: A hologram.
A: One billion.
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
A: Binary.
A: Twenty.
A: An octagon.
Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on
with crossing it"?
A: Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
A: One.
A: K and M.
Q: What's short for "binary digit"?
A: Bit.
Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in
1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator
made the scene in the 1970s?
What is mathematics?
A: Mathematics includes the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.