The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’, which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros).

When all of the numbers between 1 and 1000 are spelt, the letter 'A' only appears in one thousand!

Did you know that: 111,111,111x111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

A car number plate bearing only the number

1

sold for:

£9.5 million

in 2008 in Abu Dhabi.
According to it's owner it is 'the best number' !

Pi World Record Holder
Chao Lu, memorised 67,890 digits of pi.
Date: 20 November 2005
Time taken: 24 hours 4 minutes