Math Facts That Feel Like Magic
Math isn't just numbers — it's surprising!
- In a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance two share a birthday (birthday paradox!).
- Every proper shuffle of a deck of cards creates a sequence that's never existed before in history.
- Mathematical symbols (+, =, ×) weren't invented until the 16th century — problems were written in words!
- Pi appears in unexpected places, like river bends and physics formulas.
- The word "hundred" originally meant 120 in ancient counting systems.
- Zero was invented in India around 500 AD — before that, no placeholder for nothing!
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