, 12 August 2022
This quiz is for all you maths wizards. Can you maximise your score, or does this quiz have your number?
When you divide 0 by 2, you get no remainder. That means 0 is even!
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
True! Google was named after the number googol, which is a 1 with 100 zeros.
Hindu–Arabic numerals were invented in India and spread westwards through Arabia to Europe.
3 x 37 = 111. You can tell that 111 is divisible by 3 because 1 plus 1 plus 1 is also divisible by 3.
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19 August, 2022 at 5:08 pm
When you divide 0 by pi you get no remainder too, but that doesn’t mean that pi is a factor of 0
20 August, 2022 at 2:49 pm
Hi MC,
I’m pretty happy to agree that every positive whole number is a factor of 0. Pi can’t be a factor of 0 because factors are always positive whole numbers. Otherwise, a half would be a factor of every integer.
20 August, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Hi David,
If every positive whole number is a factor of 0, that would seem to invalidate division by 2 as being a test of whether 0 is even.
As division by any positive whole number leaves no remainder, 0 is either “more even” than say, 6, or it’s neither even nor odd. I go with the latter.