Amazing Facts

1. The largest known prime number (as of December 2020) is

282,589,933 − 1, a number which has 24,862,048 digits

2.Zero (0) is the only number that can’t be represented in Roman

numerals.
3. There’s not enough space in the known universe to write out a googolplex on
paper.

A googol is 10 to the 100th power (which is 1 followed by 100 zeros).

A googolplex is 10 to the power of googol

4. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

5. Here are some other small units of time:

millisecond (thousandth of a second)
microsecond (millionth of a second)
nanosecond (billionth of a second)

6. The smallest possible unit of time is known as "Planck's time"

It is 5.4 x 10-44 seconds.
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000054 seconds

7. Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides a die always add up to seven (7).

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8. 'FOUR' is the only number in the English language that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself
9. Letter ‘A’

From number 0 to 1000, the letter ‘A’ only appears in 1000 (One thousand)

10. A five-sided polygon (pentagon) has 5 diagonals. This is the only shape for
which the number of sides and diagonals is the same.

11. A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound
of honey
 12. The highest number that can be spelt without using any letter more than once is five thousand.

13.Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)?

Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the
sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).

14. Take any four digit number, follow these steps, and you’ll end up with 6174.

1. Choose a four digit number (the only condition is that it has at least two different digits).
2. Arrange the digits of the four digit number in descending then ascending order.
3. Subtract the smaller number from the bigger one.
4. Repeat.

Eventually you’ll end up at 6174, which is known as Kaprekar’s constant. If you then repeat the process you’ll just keep getting
6174 over and over again.

15. A paper cannot be folded more than 9 times.