Check out these fun facts about the upcoming year:
- This year the largest brood of seventeen-year cicadas will hatch - how loud do you think they will be?
- The planet will see three types of eclipses: lunar eclipse (May 26), annular solar eclipse (June 10), and total solar eclipse (December 4).
- In 2021, the European Union plans to abolish daylight savings time.
- Pantone has designated "Ultimate Gray" and "Illuminating" as the official colors of 2021. What do these soft gray and bright yellow colors remind you of?
Forms
Numbers can be represented in many different ways, for many different reasons. We are used to two forms: base-ten (2021 = 2 thousands + 0 hundreds + 2 tens + 1 one) and word form (two thousand twenty-one). Here are a few different ways to represent 2021:
- Roman numerals: MMXXI
- binary (base-two): 11111100101
- prime factorization: 43x47
Keep an eye on this blog for explanations and fun facts about each of these forms!
Further Reading:
Numbers Aplenty
Pantone Colors
