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The number 314 is popular because it’s basically pi trying to be approachable.

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The number 100 feels important because it has two zeros for applause.The term 'algorithm' comes from the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi — the man computers silently thank every day.Degrees and radians are two ways to measure angles. — two systems, one confused student.The Babylonians used base 60 for their number system — ancient math overkill that gave us the 60-minute hour.Exponents were invented to make numbers feel powerful without actually growing up.The number 1729 is the Hardy-Ramanujan number, known as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways — taxi-cab trivia for elite nerds.See all Rude Numbers facts →

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