YEAR IN NUMBERS: 365 Astonishing Maths Facts

A Strong Words 2023 Book of the Year which is a numerical trip around the sun, packed with exciting and intriguing factoids and arranged in themed monthly chapters beginning in January with 0 and 1. Did you know four is the only word which has as many letters as the size of the number itself? That there are definitely two people in London with exactly the same number of hairs on their heads? That E, the most commonly used letter in the English language, accounts for over 12% of all letter usage. Did you know that only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years), around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive, the '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day. - except Christmas. Broken down into 12 chapters from going 'back to school' with arithmetic and times tables through prime numbers and all the way to the 12 Days of Chris-maths, this book features a collection of 365 fascinating numerical 'nuggets', accompanied by clear, bite-size explanations of the mathematics that underpin them. Some of the maths is a little complicated and there are longer explanations expanded in further notes at the back of the book. Examples throughout, 346 pages, line art diagrams.