Category: tidbits

Basketball player Michael Jordan started out as a math major but switched majors his Jr. Year.

Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, majored in mathematics.

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

J. P. Morgan, banking, steel, and railroad tycoon, majored in mathematics.

The Incas and certain other pre Columbian tribes in Peru developed the Decimal System hundreds of years before it was used in Europe.
http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/math.shtml

In 594 AD decimal notation is used for numbers in India. This is the system on which our current notation is based.