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What is a Palindrome?
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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.
Example : Was it a rat I saw? 1/10/2011 |
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What is a Cube?
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A cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six sides, with three meeting at each vertex.
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What is a quadrilateral?
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A quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices or corners
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What is algebra?
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Branch of mathematics concerning the study of rules of operations and relation.
Algebra introduces the concept of variables representing numbers. |
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What is a Prime Number?
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A natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.
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What is a Composite number?
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A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number.
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Who is Euclid?
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A greek mathematician, referred to as "Father of Geometry"
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What is Geometry?
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A branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures.
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What is Least Common Multiple?
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For example, LCM(a,b) is the smallest positive integer that is a multiple of both a and b.
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What is Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers?
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Largest positive integer that divides the numbers without a remainder.
GCD of 8 and 12 is 4. |
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What is Fraction?
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Any part of a unit.
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What is a natural number?
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Natural numbers are the ordinary whole numbers used for counting.
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How do you define square root of a number?
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In mathematics, a square root of a number a is a number y such that y2 = a,
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What is hypotenuse?
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In Geometry, hypotenuse is the longest side of a right-angled triangle,
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What is Pythogorean Equation?
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The theorem can be written as an equation relating the lengths of the sides a, b and c, often called the Pythagorean equation:
a2+b2 = c2 where c represents the length of the hypotenuse, and a and b represent the lengths of the other two sides. |
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What is Trigonometry?
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Branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides.
Used in astronomical studies and surveying. |
