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Math Trivia FactsCome and discover a fun world of little known math trivia facts that will amaze friends and family. Kids get a kick out of math trivia and them to see how cool math really is! Here are some cool math facts you probably didn't know... If you need to remember Pi, just count the letters in each word in the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and say "Thank you," you get two more decimal places. [3.141592653...] 
There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards. 
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called a tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. 40 is only number that has each of its letters written in alphabetical order. Check it for yourself....F-O-R-T-Y. And the number 1 also shares a similar quality. It's the only number that has its letters in reverse alphabetical order...O-N-E. Most people know that a closed figure with eight straight sides is call an octagon. And some might even know a 10-sided figure is called a decagon. But many do not know that a 20-sided figure is called an icosagon. Most people from middle school and higher know that a 1 with 6 zeros (1,000,000) is called a million.But did you know that the number 1 with 30 zeros is called a nonillion. And not to be outdone by a nonillion. The name for the number 1 with one hundred zeros is called a googol. Here's wat a googol looks like if you write it out..... 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, |