Download or read book A Year in Numbers written by Kyle D. Evans and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know: -Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years) -Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive -The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except Christmas Broken down into 12 chapters that correspond roughly to months of the year - from going 'back to school' with arithmetic and times tables through prime numbers and all the way to the 12 Days of Chris-maths, this book features a collection of 365 fascinating numerical 'nuggets', accompanied by clear, bite-size explanations of the mathematics that underpin them.