Category: Arithmetic

Pascal’s triangle

In the history of Mathematics, especially in past centuries, when exchanging information through large distances was more difficult, a curious phenomenon happened: different scientists, independently of one other, get to the same discovery. One...

Orologio decimale

Prime numbers and factorization

Did you ever ask yourselves why an hour is made up of 60 minutes? The practical reasons of this choice are very ancient: the idea was adopted by Babylonians about 4000 years ago. But,...