The Largest Known Prime

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A prime number is a number that has no divisors other than itself and one. They are also notoriously difficult to find, and there is no known pattern to find them. There is almost an on going contest in mathematics to find the largest prime, and the winner at the moment is 12,978,189 digits long. Now that’s [...]

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The Number of Google Searches Each Day

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We’ve talked about the big numbers from facebook, twitter, and youtube before, but now it’s time to tackle the biggest site on the internet. Google. Google Search is processes more than one billion searches every day. What if the internet didn’t exist, and Google had to process all of these requests via snail mail?

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This Planet Has a Lot of Rats

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There are around 5 billion rats here on earth, which makes them arguably the second most successful mammal. After humans, of course. An average rat weighs around 450 grams. That makes for almost 5 billion pounds of rat. They are about 25 centimeters long, or 10 inches. That makes 1 and a quarter million kilometers of rat. 

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The Length of the Collective Human Intestine

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The length of an average human’s intestines is 7.6 meters, or 25 feet. That’s a lot of intestines. So how long would all human intestines be combined? The simple answer? 52.44 million kilometers, or 33 million miles.

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How Many Tweets Are Tweeted Each Day?

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At the beginning of this month, Twitter released a very impressive big number. 200 million tweets per day. Now with an average tweet being 110 characters long, and an average word being 4.5 characters long, some fun math can be done. The Encyclopedia Britannica is an incredibly long and comprehensive set of encyclopedias 32 volumes. Around 44 [...]

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Size of Pluto

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Pluto is often ridiculed by other planets because of how small it is. In fact, it’s not even technically considered a planet any more. But the fact is, it’s still a pretty big thing. With a mass of 1.34 x 10^22 kilograms, and a diameter of 2,322 kilometers, Pluto is possibly a lot bigger than [...]

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