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6 Scientists at NASA used ladders and a large blackboard to write out equation of satellite orbits with chalks at System Lab ,...

Here's a curious fact about 733

Write down one 4, two 3’s, three 2’s, four 1’s and you just got a prime number.

This is the only prime with four consecutive increasing digits

3 is the smallest reflectable prime

Here's an example of a function that grows faster than polynomials but slower than exponentials

Here's an example of a function that grows faster than exponentially but slower than a factorial

François Viète was the first person to uncover an infinite product formula for π in the 16th century. The formula involves just a single...

Here's an interesting approximation for the number " 8 "

Douglas Hofstadter discovered that if we add the reciprocals of the first 8 counting numbers (rounding up to the 3rd decimal place) the...

Here's an interesting approximation for π discovered by Borwein and Bailey.

Christopher Zeeman tried for 7 years to prove that one cannot untie a knot on a 4-sphere. Then one day he decided to try to prove the...

In 1997, the Texas banker Andrew Beal noticed that for any solution of Aˣ+Bʸ=Cᶻ he could find, A,B,and C had a common factor (e.g....

A near-miss in math: Roger Cotes in 1716, while investigating the surface area of an ellipsoid, found the following expression: log(cosφ...

As of March 2017, the largest known certain Fibonacci prime is F104911, with 21925 digits. It was proved prime by Mathew Steine and Bouk...

12:59 is the largest "prime time" of day on a 12-hour clock in hours and minutes

If you reverse the first 5 digits of the decimal expansion of π you get a prime

There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible arrangements of a Rubik's Cube. 🤔😮 It was invented by Hungarian professor of architecture...

If you arrange the first 12 primes: 2,3,5 7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37 in the following order of operations you also get a prime