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3. What comes after a million, billion and trillion? Why a quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion and nonillion of course. 

4. Cutting a cake into 8 pieces is possible with just 3 slices, can you work out how? 

5. An icosagon is a shape with 20 sides. 

 A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped. 

 Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides. 





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The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29. 
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It wasn’t until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming. 
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A ‘googolplex’ is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, this number is so big that it can’t be written because there isn’t enough room in the universe to fit it in! It would also take a length of time far greater than the age of the universe just to write the numbers. 
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A three dimensional parallelogram is called a parallelepiped. 

 




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Trigonometry is the study of the relationship between the angles of triangles and their sides. 
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The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very, very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact). 
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