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What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882? |
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Phi. |
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What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees? |
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Obtuse. |
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What's the top number of a fraction called? |
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The numerator. |
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What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.? |
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Pythagoras. |
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What's a polygon with four unequal sides called? |
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A quadrilateral. |
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What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions? |
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A hologram. |
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What number does "giga" stand for? |
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One billion. |
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What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.? |
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Zero. |
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What word describes a number system with a base of two? |
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Binary. |
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How many equal sides does an icosahedron have? |
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Twenty. |
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What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides? |
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An octagon. |
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What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on without crossing it"? |
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Tangent. |
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What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench? |
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The hexagon. |
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What number is an improper fraction always greater than? |
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One. |
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What two letters are both symbols for 1,000? |
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K and M. |
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What's short for "binary digit"? |
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Bit. |
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What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs? |
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The sixteenth. |
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What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940? |
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Googol. |
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What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s? |
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The Slide rule's. |
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