Mathematics Facts

You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.

A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.

If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.

People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.

The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.

Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.

In the 1840s, Charles Babbage designed a mechanical calculator with 8,000 parts to compute error-free mathematical tables. The project was too ambitious for Victorian-era resources and was never completed. Over 150 years later, the Science Museum in London built it to his exact specifications — and it worked perfectly.

Jerry Selbee, a retired convenience-store owner from Evart, Michigan, spotted a flaw in a state lottery in three minutes: on roll-down weeks, buying tickets in bulk produced a positive expected return. He and his wife Marge formed a syndicate, drove 900 miles to Massachusetts for every roll-down, and played for nine years. Their group grossed $26 million. All legal.