Interesting Facts About Numbers & Prime Numbers

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With the human mind’s natural inclination for curiosity, the earliest record of counting traces back to over 50,000 years ago. From ancient tally methods, numbers continue to guide our lives in ways you might not even think of.

Love them or hate them, you can’t escape numbers. Despite what we already understand about them, numbers still hold many undiscovered properties and possibilities. Watch on and see the interesting facts about maths and numbers for yourself in our Number Facts video.

1:01 Different cultures discovered the concept of zero at different times.
1:14 A hundred doesn’t actually mean 100.
1:24 Only one number is spelled with the same amount of letters as its value.
1:34 The earliest form of numbers were tally marks found on prehistoric bones and artifacts.
1:47 Numerals vary with each language.
1:59 The numerals we use now are called “Hindu-Arabic” numbers.
2:09 Zero is the only number without a roman numeral.
2:19 People believe that aliens are trying to reach us through prime numbers.
2:33 A prime number is any number that can be divided only by itself and by 1.
2:47 There is an organization dedicated to finding the largest prime numbers.
3:08 The largest prime number found so far has 24,862,048 digits.
3:41 2 is the only even prime number.
3:58 A Rubik's cube has 43 quintillion different permutations.
4:18 Voltaire cracked the lottery system in 18th Century France.
5:02 The only prime numbers ending with “2” or “5” are the numbers two and five themselves.
5:14 Traditionally, Italians view 17 as an unlucky number.
5:30 The fastest record for a person counting to 1 million is 89 days.
5:50 If you multiply a single-digit number by 9 and add all the digits of the product, the sum will always be 9.
6:17 7 is the most loved number.
6:44 Prime numbers protect us from cybercrime.
7:23 The Sieve of Eratosthenes was the earliest method of finding prime numbers.
7:41 Bees can count.
7:59 Thai people laugh in numbers.
8:10 If you shuffle a pack of cards right, there’s a chance the order has never been done before in the history of the universe.
8:27 People view odd numbers as male and even numbers as female.
8:40 Maps have four colors.
8:53 A room full of 70 people would most probably have two people who share a birthday.
9:05 The word ‘love’ in tennis means a score of zero.
9:24 4 is an unlucky number in East Asia.

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