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Motivational Lines from - www.mukherjeesir.blogspot.in :-
Maths some time make us irritate when we are unable to solve problems. So , here are some words of motivation to keep motivated oneself throughout the life :-
1. Winston Churchill :-
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
2.Thomas Jefferson :-
I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.
3. Michael John Bobak :-
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
MATHEMATICS BY MUKHERJEE SIR
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15 Interesting facts about Maths :-
1. Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter.
2.Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.
3. The word 'mathematics' come from the Greek mãthēma , which means learning , study , science.
4. What comes after a million , billion and trillion ? A quadrillion , quintillion , sextillion , octillion , nonillion , decillion and undecillion.
5. Different names for the no. 0 including zero , naught , nought , nil , zilch and zip
6. Zero (0) is the only no. which cannot be represented by Roman numerals
7. The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word , 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing '.
8. The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th century Welsh mathatician Robert Recorde , who was fed up with writing "is equals to " in his equations.
9. Googol is the term used for a no. 1 followed by 100 zeros and that it was used by a nine year old , Milton Sirotta in 1940.
The name is of the popular search engine 'Google ' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol '.
10. Abacus is considered the origin of the calculator.
11. Plus (+) and Minus (-) sign symbols were used as early as 1984 A.D.
12. An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides.
13. A ' jiffy ' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
14. Want to remember the value of pi (3.1415926) in easy way ? You can do it by counting each word's letters in ' May I have a large container of coffee? '.
15. Have you heard about a Palindrome Number ? It is a no. that reads the same backward and forward , e.g. 12321. www.mukherjeesir.blogspot.in
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