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If a human yawns in front of a monkey, will the monkey
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60: Why did the Babylonians base their number system on 60? I can understand
10 or 20 but 60????
Billions: different definitions in the USA and the
UK, a billion almost defies comprehension.
Circle: Why does a circle have 360 degrees; why not 100
degrees? Also why is a degree 60 minutes and a minute 60 seconds?
Circle: What do you mean by the circumference of the circle? Who
first found the formula for the circumference of a circle? When?
Dull number: What is the smallest "dull" number?
Dull number: Comment on an earlier
dullest-number question
Misleading statistics: Please explain your
statistics describing how much grasshoppers eat compared with a cow.
Numbers: Why are our numbers called Arabic? Where did they really come
from?
Place
value system: What is the place value system and where did it come
from --- Arabs? Indians?
Trillions: different definitions in the USA and the
UK, making a trillion is harder in the U.K.
Wagon wheels: why do wagon wheels on TV movies
appear to reverse directions?
Zero: is zero a number?
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