{"id":206627,"date":"2021-02-02T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=206627"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:48:40","slug":"number-2-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/number-2-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fantastic Facts About The Number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over the ages, people have attributed many facts to numbers.\n
Numerology, superstition, important dates, and so many other things cling to various numbers, which in some cases gives them great significance!\n
Today let\u2019s take a look at 10 fun facts about the number 2.\n
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There are only eight prime numbers under 20, and two is the only even number.\n
A prime number, by the way, is a number that can only be divided by itself and the number one.\n This depends on whether you start the sequence with a 0 or 1.\n Okay, so this might be an obvious one, but for those of you that get confused between an odd and even number, this may help you remember!\n An example of this would be if you drew a rectangle on a sheet of paper.\n This would only have two dimensions, length, and width (breadth).\n If you were to call a character in a movie two-dimensional, it can mean that they are quite shallow, or lacking depth.\n This can also mean that their character simply has less background or information available to them, so they\u2019re like a two-dimensional shape versus a three-dimensional shape.\n Helium has the chemical symbol He and is the first of the Noble gases.\n It is completely colorless, odorless, tasteless, and is even non-toxic.\n It\u2019s the second lightest gas, and for this reason, is used commonly to inflate balloons that float in the air.\n This system uses just two numbers, most typically 0 and 1.\n The standard system of counting which we use is the base ten system.\n In the base two systems, 1 is one, 10 is two, 11 is three, 100 is four, 101 is five, and so on.\n A binary star system is named in such a way because it’s a system in which there are two stars, not one, at the center of it.\n Each star orbits around each other.\n Can you imagine with it would be like if we had two suns?\n This is because the word prefix bi- means two, as found in many words.\n A few examples of such words are: bilingual (knowing or using two languages), bisect (to cut something in half), biannual (occurring twice a year), or a bicycle (which has two wheels).\n 2 Pallas is the formal name for it, with the two indicating that it was the second classified planet.\n This is interesting because it was indeed classified as a planet, only being reclassified in the 19th Century.\n The asteroid, which is commonly referred to simply as Pallas, has a varying orbit that in terms of distance from the sun lies between Mars and Jupiter.\n Roman mythology, for example, is centered around the number, starting from the beginning of the great city of Rome.\nThe number two is also either the third or fourth number in the Fibonacci sequence.\n
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A number can only be called an even number if it can be divided by two.\n
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If something is described as being two-dimensional it means that it only takes up space in two dimensions.\n
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The atomic number of the chemical element helium is two.\n
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A binary number is a number that uses the base-2 number system.\n
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A commonly occurring form of the star system is a binary star system.\n
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The number two can be found within thousands of words.\n
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The second-ever asteroid to be discovered is called 2 Pallas.\n
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The number two can be seen again and again in mythology.\n
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