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ab00_05
04/07/08, 10:56 PM
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?


Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?


Q: What's the top number of a fraction called?


Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?


Q: What's a polygon with four unequal sides called?


Q: What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?


Q: What number does "giga" stand for?


Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?


Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?


Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?


Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?


Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as "a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it"?


Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?


Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?


Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?


Q: What's short for "binary digit"?


Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?


Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?


Q: What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?


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patis
04/07/08, 11:05 PM
1. pi
2. obtuse
3. numerator
4. Pythagoras
5. quadrilateral
6. hologram
7. a billion
8. the concept of zero
9. binary
10. 20
11. octagon
12. tangent
13. hexagon
14. 1
15. K for kilo, and M for Mega
16. bit
17. 16th century
18. googol
19. the slide rule.

kai28
04/07/08, 11:10 PM
1. pi
2. obtuse
3. numerator
4. pythagoras
5. quadrilateral
7. hologram
8. one billion
9. zero
10. binary
11. twenty
12. octagon
13. tangent
14. hexagon
15. K and M
16. bit
17. 16th century
18. googol
19. slide's rule

:c_o_o_l:

patis
04/07/08, 11:13 PM
1. pi
2. obtuse
3. numerator
4. pythagoras
5. quadrilateral
7. hologram
8. one billion
9. zero
10. binary
11. twenty
12. octagon
13. tangent
14. hexagon
15. K and M
16. bit
17. 16th century
18. googol
19. slide's rule

:c_o_o_l:

Dude, I beat you to it. LOL There's another thread about trivia with the places. Go for it before somebody else does! LOL

cmo
04/07/08, 11:13 PM
Is this a contest?

:sign_lol::sign_lol::sign_lol:

alexus495
04/07/08, 11:15 PM
1. Pi
2. Obtuse
3. Numerator
4. Pythagoras
5. Quadrilateral
7. 1 billion
9. Binary
10. 20
11. Octagon
12. Tangent
13. hexagon
14. one
15. k and m
16. bit
18. googol

ab00_05
04/07/08, 11:18 PM
ure all g00d!!!
try to post another trivia!!!!
great!!!
thanks for answering!!!:o)

kai28
04/07/08, 11:20 PM
Dude, I beat you to it. LOL There's another thread about trivia with the places. Go for it before somebody else does! LOL

Is this a contest?

:sign_lol::sign_lol::sign_lol:

patis, you were just 5min earlier to post your answers... i'll get the other one... :lol:
by the way, i see you're not a sheriff anymore... :sign_lol:

cmo, I think this is... hehehe... well, a healthy and informative one... :sign_lol:

patis
04/07/08, 11:45 PM
by the way, i see you're not a sheriff anymore... :sign_lol:



Got really cool medals! Vampiric medals at that!

patis
04/07/08, 11:46 PM
Is this a contest?

:sign_lol::sign_lol::sign_lol:

I just want to get back at kai28 for beating my scores in arcade. LOL

kai28
04/08/08, 12:01 AM
I've got a new competitor... johndshin... he's stealing my high scored games... and because of that, I am rank number two again in the leaderboard... hehehe....

patis
04/08/08, 12:42 AM
I don't even want to visit the arcade anymore. LOL

kai28
04/08/08, 12:58 AM
Got really cool medals! Vampiric medals at that!

Congrats! :gud:

ctivnan
04/08/08, 09:25 AM
:yey: CONGRATULATIONS TO: PATIS, KAI, and ALEXUS!!!! :yey:

loe
04/08/08, 11:39 PM
Dude, I beat you to it. LOL There's another thread about trivia with the places. Go for it before somebody else does! LOL

LOL!!! I always get last! This one I did know!

patis
04/09/08, 12:03 AM
LOL!!! I always get last! This one I did know!

You should log in more often then. And then, when we all finally get addicted, we can sue admin for not putting up disclaimers that this forum, along with the caffeinated drink it proudly displays in its logo and its name, are addicting. LOL kidding!

racz_jay25
04/09/08, 05:13 AM
Congrats Patis, kai and alexus.

Loe, you need to be faster next time. Some of coffeers are greedy, you know. They won't leave anything for others. :)

ctivnan
04/09/08, 07:27 AM
You should log in more often then. And then, when we all finally get addicted, we can sue admin for not putting up disclaimers that this forum, along with the caffeinated drink it proudly displays in its logo and its name, are addicting. LOL kidding!

:lol: :lol: :lol: