Only seven letters represent all the Roman numerals: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
The Old Norse word "hundredth" means 120, not 100, the literal translation being "long 100.
Calculus comes from the Ancient Greek word for pebbles due to the use of little rocks to create equations.
A prime number is always greater than 1 but can't be formed by multiplying two smaller numbers. That means the smallest prime number is 2. It's also the only even prime number.
Score is the slang word for twenty (20).
There's no numeral for zero as it didn't exist as a number in Roman times. They just said "nulla" for zero.
A googol is a big number. It has 100 zeros added to it, and the search engine Google is named after it.
The study of the relationship between triangles, sides, and angles in trigonometry.
There are six types of triangle: equilateral, right-angled, isosceles, obtuse, scalene, and acute.
The number we use today comes from the Hindu/Arabic system which was developed over a thousand years ago.