Sunday, 27 October 2013

Numero Uno

Six weeks ago (15th September 2013) was the 1st anniversary of my blog. During my kindergarten days, we start the numbers with either 0 or 1. But in my opinion, the numerical system starts with the number 0 because, it was the invented in ancient times. The word 'zero' means nothing in Latin or 'nil'. The number 1 is associated with everything first. When a movie completes 2 to 4 weeks in the box office, it is said to be the blockbuster/biggest hit of the year. It is also associated with the sporting positions in tennis, football, cricket, basketball, volleyball, F1 and even the Olympic Games as in the case of the Gold medalist. If the song was a big hit or popular in a country, it would occupy the number 1 position of its popularity.  When a product (consumer/non-consumer) is of good quality, it will be labeled as the number 1 product in every town/city/region/state/province/country. Even a baby turn 1 year old i.e., his/her birthday was celebrated as the 1st birthday whereas a couple who got married a year later on that day celebrate their wedding anniversary on that day. When a person died on that day of the previous year, his/her death anniversary is observed. When a company celebrates its establishment, it is celebrating its  anniversary of its establishment. when a famous event occur on that day, the first anniversary was observed. The most significant anniversaries are the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and the 100th. Sometimes anniversaries are also called as Jubilees. The 10th anniversary is called as the Decennial and it is called as the Tin/Aluminum Jubilees and it is known as the event/company which completed a decade. The 25th anniversary is called as the Silver Jubilee, the 50th anniversary is called as the Golden Jubilee/ Semicentennial and it is also called as the half century, the 60th anniversary is called as the Diamond Jubilee, the 75th anniversary is called as Platinum Jubilee and finally the 100th anniversary which is known as the Centennial Jubilee.

It is also associated with the performance of students in the academic year (schools/colleges/universities). Numbers are also associated with street names, phone numbers (mobile/landline), communications, volume and pages of publication materials (books, novels, ebooks, encyclopedias, thesauruses, magazines and newspapers), bank accounts,  ATM pin codes, age, sex, colors, shapes and sizes, clothing (in response to size of dress, shoes etc), demographics, computers, economy (GDP and PPP), computer programming, architecture, nature, natural disasters, information technology, electricity(in response to watts), medicine, medical reports, technology, history, ratio, human resources, botany and zoology(in response to species, number of cells), profit and loss, sales, discounts,  height, media, weight, commodities, kilograms, millimeters, litres, kilometers, marketing and retail, money (cash and credit), centimeters, recipes (in response to measurements of ingredients), seismography, production, sociology, literature, elections (with references to votes), data and memory in computers, bills, house addresses, measurements, food and drink, house expenses, geometry, area pin codes, bills, statistics, tourism, surveys, engineering, chemistry, physics, scientific research, astronomy, astrology, finance/commerce, timings and even days, dates, weeks, months, years, centuries and millenniums.

When I was in high school and in my first and second semesters of BCA, I found mathematics extremely tough, especially the polynomials section. But I found the rest of the sections are very easy, especially geometry. Mathematics was divided into 3 subjects. They are arithmetic, algebra and geometry. Arithmetic is one of the easiest subjects in mathematics, it is associated with plus(+), minus(-), multiplication (*), and division(/).  The theories of L.C.M and H.C.F are the part of arithmetic. Algebra is associated with mathematical formulas like (a + b)2, (a - b)2,  (a + b + c)2,  (a2 + b2 + c2), ( a - b) 2, ( a + b)3, (a - b)3 and other mathematical formulas shown below, as well as union and intersection of sets, matrixes (rows and columns), Boolean algebra, exponents, linear equations, quadratic equations, rational expressions, properties of complex numbers, radical properties, absolute value, common factoring examples and arithmetic progression. The subset of Algebra is logarithm. It is the exponent to which another fixed value and the base is raised to produce a number. Geometry is associated with lines and angles (acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex), rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, areas, squares, axioms, radius, rhombus, hypotenuses, trapeziums, theorems, particularly the Pythagoras Theorem and even the Venn's diagram. The subset of geometry is trigonometry which is known for sin, cos, tan, cosec, sec and cot. But sin, cos and tan have the opposites and the same numbers. The trigonometric tables and formulas are given in the link below.
http://www.trigonometry-help.net/trig-tables.php

These are the algebraic formulas shown here:
http://tutiononline.wordpress.com/about/basic-algebraic-formulas/
http://www.globalspec.com/reference/77003/203279/principal-algebraic-expressions-and-formulas
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/download-free-math-formula-sheets/

Connecting numbers with age of a person doesn't mean he or she is looking young or old. Age is divided into 7 stages. They are infancy, childhood, teenager/adolescence, young adult, adulthood, retirement and old age. The first stage of life was infancy, which begins with the birth of a child and
it continues till the child is 3 years old. When a child turns 1 years old, he/she will be known as the toddler. Toddler is the subset of infancy and it's lifespan is between 1-3 years whereas the life span of  an infant is between 0-3 years old. The Second stage of life is Childhood. Childhood begins when a child turns 3 years old and it continues till a child turns 10 years old. The life span of childhood is 7 years i.e., 3-10 years old. Childhood ends when a child turns 10 years old. The third stage of life is Adolescence/Teenage years. Adolescence is the beginning of a child growing up and it is the first stage of becoming a teenager. It is also called as preteens.  Adolescence lasts for 2 years. The Teenage stages begins when a child turns 13 and it was the first stages of adulthood. The teenage years last for 7 years i.e., from 13 to 19. Teenage years end when a person turns 20 and it was known as the young adult stage. It was the third stage of life. But in most countries, the age of the majority is 18 years old.  It was the age when a person is eligible to vote, get married, drive, drink, get a job, go to university etc. It was also a stage of youth. Its life span is 12 years old i.e., 18-30 years old. The fourth stage of life is adulthood. It begins when a person turns 30 years old and it last for 30 years old and its lifespan is from 30-60 years old. The fifth stage of life is the Retirement stage. It begins when a person turns 60, he/she is retiring or turning older. This is the journey of a person to a seventh and final stage that is known as old age. Old age is the end of the life cycle of every human being. This marks the end of the life cycle.

Age is the thing when some thing or someone is young or old. The email "facts that will make you feel old" has gone viral recently. It is associated with any movie, TV show, gadget, song, album, novel, world event that were many years old. When an actor, actress, singer is getting older, they will be known as celebrities that were aging gracefully. These are some of the facts that will make you feel old:
  1. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayege was released 18 years ago.
  2. Windows XP was launched 12 years ago in 2001.
  3. The new millennium is more than a decade old.
  4. Sesame Street came out 44 years ago. Jim Henson, who created Sesame Street, died in 1990.
  5. It has been 12 years since 9/11.
  6. The first Dhoom film was released 9 years ago.
  7. The X-Files came out 20 years ago. David Duchonvy, who played Fox Mulder, is now 53 whereas Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully is now 45.
  8. It has been 19 years since Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai rose to fame. Sushmita Sen was Miss Universe in 1994 whereas Aishwarya Rai was Miss World in the same year.
  9. Pierce Brosnan  last acted as James Bond 11 years ago.
  10. Ally McBeal and The Practice went on air 16 years ago.
  11. It has been 22 years since the Gulf War.
  12. Princess Diana and Mother Teresa have been dead for 16 years. Princess Diana died 5 days before Mother Teresa .
  13. The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997.
  14. The first episode of  the first season of F.R.I.E.N.D.S was aired on 22 September 1994 (that was 19 years ago). The oldest cast member of F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Lisa Kudrow, turned 50 this year. 
  15. George Clooney is 3 months older than Barack Obama. He was born in May 1961.
  16. The first Archie comic was published in December 1941.
  17. The youngest Spice Girl is 37, the oldest Backstreet Boy is 42, the oldest Boyzone is 41, the oldest N'Sync is 42, Gwen Stefani is 44, Kylie Minogue is 45, Madonna is 55.
  18. The Matrix was released 14 years ago. Keanu Reeves is 49 now.
  19. Clint Eastwood is older than the Second World War. He was born in May 1930.
  20. Akshay Kumar is older than Neil Armstrong's landing on a moon. He was born in 1967.
  21. Terminator 2 was released 22 years ago. Edward Furlong, who played the kid John Connor is now 36.
  22. The first episode of Mr. Bean was aired 23 years ago. Rowan Atkinson who played Mr. Bean is now 58.
  23. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are older than Independent India. Sylvester  Stallone was born on 6 July 1946 whereas Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on 30 July 1947.
  24. Rajiv Gandhi and Freddie Mercury have been dead for 22 years.
  25. Jurassic Park is older than Justin Bieber.
  26. The Delhi Metro was going on for 11 years.
  27. Bruce Springsteen is older than the Constitution of India. He was born on 23 September 1949.
  28. Chetan Bhagat's  antics are going on for 9 years.
  29. Sean Connery is 83 years old and is retired now.
  30. Home Alone was released 23 years ago. Macaulay Culkin is 33 years old now.
  31. Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman  Khan were all born in 1965.
  32. All the cast members of Sex and the City except Cynthia Nixon are now 48. Cynthia Nixon was born in 1966. The youngest Desperate Housewives cast member is 38, the Small Wonder kids are now 40 years (Jerry Suprian who played Jamie Lawson), 38 years (Tiffany Brissette who played V.I.C.I. a.k.a Vicky the robot), and 36 years (Emily Schulman who played Harriet Brindle) respectively, The oldest Home Improvement boy is now 32.
  33. Bruce Lee have been dead for 40 years.
  34. Bryan Adams' cult song "Summer of 69" was released 28 years ago. 
  35. Google has been there for 15 years whereas Yahoo for 19.
  36. Sachin Tendulkar made his cricket debut 24 years ago.
  37. Remember Jungle Book on Doordarshan? It was 17 years ago.
  38. Remember Hanson? Now these boys are 33, 30 and 28 respectively.
  39. 'Kids' born after the year 2000 will be known now as the "Millennium teens".
  40. Honey I Shrunk The Kids was released 24 years ago. The Szalinski kids are now 42 and 35 respectively.
  41. Baywatch was first aired in 1989 (that was exactly 24 years ago). David Hasselholf, who played the lifeguard Mitch Buchannon is now 61.
  42. Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor were newcomers in Bollywood 13 years ago.
  43. Remember the song "Didi" by Khaled? It has been 21 years since it was released.
  44. 'Kids' born in 1995 can legally drink, drive and vote this year.
  45. Kids whom you remember in their diapers are posting their pics on Facebook.
  46. Facebook has been for around 9 years, Orkut for 11.
  47. Michael Jackson's Thriller was released 31 years ago.
  48. Monica Lewinsky is 40 years old now. She became known throughout the world during the  Lewinsky Scandal in 1998 (that was 15 years ago).
  49. Dil Chatha Hai was released 12 years ago.
  50. Kaho Naa Pyar Hai was released 13 years ago.
  51. The movie, Top Gun, which made Tom Cruise into Hollywood's biggest stars was released 27 years ago.
  52. The first Mission Impossible movie was released 17 years ago.
  53. Remember the little girl from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? she is now 25 years old.
  54. Maruti Zen was introduced 20 years ago.
You know what was the age of my blog? It was 1 year, 1 month, 408 days and six weeks.

So the age of my blog is.......................................................................................................................................................
Numero Uno!


  

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