Tuesday, October 12, 2010

trivia.trivia.trivia


         * MATH TRIVIA

                  
               * Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the smallest odd prime which is not a twin prime. Twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the second Woodall prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. In base 10, it is the second Smarandache-Wellin prime, as it is the concatenation of the base 10 representations of the first two primes (2 and 3) and is itself also prime.


         * ENGLISH TRIVIA

                  * Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters  mt.
             
                  * The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

                  * The only word in the English language with all five vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental." 


      * SCIENCE TRIVIA


            
          * Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of plankton (a tiny sea creature).

          *  A bucket full of water contains more atoms than there are bucketfuls of water in the Atlantic Ocean. 
       
          *  Gallium is a metal which melts on palm of the hand, due to its low melting point (29.76 °C).

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