Inspiring and Creative Resources & Tutorials for Science-Curious People
Most people know about Zimbabwe’s trillion dollar bill notes or have heard stories about Germans using worthless Marks during the Weimar Republic for wallpaper, but what few realize is that Hungary broke all the records. Just after the WWII, between 1945 and 1946, Hungary was in a state of hyperinflation, with inflation rates reaching 41.9 quintillion percent (that is 41,900,000,000,000,000,000%). Continue reading “Very Large Numbers In Real Life”
Have a look at the two distinct sums of series of powers below.
Same procedure, different result accuracy levels… Can you guess what went wrong in the operation of fig. 2?
We already knew birds can count, but what about plants? Is this idea so surrealist? No, it isn’t because research says the carnivorous plant with a suggestive name, Venus Flytrap (also referred to ‘Dionaea muscipula’), snaps its jaws shut only when the tiny hairs on the surface of the trapping structure formed by two lobes have been stimulated twice within a 20-second window. An additional stimulation primes the trap for digestion. Five stimulations trigger the production of digestive enzymes – and more additional hairs’ stimulations mean more enzymes.
Continue reading “The Plant That Is Able To Count Almost To Five”
Diaethria phlogea, the “89’98 butterfly”, is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family found in Colombia, South America. The markings on its wing resemble a painted number: an 89, a 98 or even an 88.
Are there any other animals with numbers painted on their body?
