Thursday, 5 March 2015

Some things I learnt this week...

Cricket world Cup

This week I learnt 2 interesting facts about the country I am studying. I learnt that England consumes the most tea than any other country in the world. I also learned that cricket was supposedly invented by some children living in south England in the 16th century. Cricket was probably first played with a thick stick and a rock until proper gear was invented. 

Someone in my class

One thing  I learnt about someone in my class was the Catherine M loves to read books. She has like already finished her chart and I have only read 2 fiction books and some non fiction books. She also is good with art and finishing her tasks early.

Something else

A few days ago I read a fact online that the 3x3 Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different positions that is can be turned and twisted into. If every second you turned your Rubik's cube into a new unique position it would take over 1400 trillion years to get through all 43 quintillion of them. Even if you started this project at the big bang you still would only be 0.001% complete. If you thought that the 3x3 had lots of unique positions a 7x7 has 19,500,551,183,731,307,835,329 ,126,754,019,748,794,904,992,692,043,434,567,152,132,912,323,232,706,135,469,180,065,278,712,755,853,360,682,328,551,719,137,311,299,993,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or 19.5 duoquinquagintillion for short) different positions! There are more different positions in a 7x7 that atoms in 1080 visible universes! (1080  just means 1 with 80 zeros after it.) 

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3 comments:

  1. The Rubik's cube patterns are just mind-blowing

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  2. The rubiks cube isn't mind blowing its awesome! Nice Post Andrew!

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  3. Woah that makes the Rubik's cube seem even harder than I already thought. Nice post Andrew.

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