Math can be downright interesting! For example, most mathematical equations were written in words before the 16th century! Could you imagine what that must have looked like?!
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
Many people have difficulties grasping exponential growth and its implications can be quite overwhelming. The current world record in paper folding is twelve times... a sheet of paper folded in half 103 times would be as thick as the entire observable universe!
Who doesn’t love that classic Sega opening? You know, the one where a bunch of people shout “SE-GAAA!” Well, this particular gem took up an enormous amount of space on the original Sonic game’s cartridge. A whole eighth of the cartridge’s space was devoted to this one four-second sound. It needed more space than entire levels, people!
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The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.
Many people have difficulties grasping exponential growth and its implications can be quite overwhelming. The current world record in paper folding is twelve times... a sheet of paper folded in half 103 times would be as thick as the entire observable universe!
Who doesn’t love that classic Sega opening? You know, the one where a bunch of people shout “SE-GAAA!” Well, this particular gem took up an enormous amount of space on the original Sonic game’s cartridge. A whole eighth of the cartridge’s space was devoted to this one four-second sound. It needed more space than entire levels, people!
Not all eggs are, well, egg-shaped. Sharks in particular produce a variety of weird and sometimes alien-looking shapes of eggs. Zebra shark eggs look like flattened tics, and the crested horn shark lays eggs that resemble the Guggenheim Museum with added shoelaces.
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