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Basics of Chess

Chess is a fun, strategic, and fast-moving board game. Each player has 16 pieces (A king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks, and 8 pawns) which are placed on an 8-to-8 board. Here are the movement rules for the pieces: King: The king is the most important piece, can only move one squareContinue reading “Basics of Chess”

Near round number squared

Have you ever had a problem like 812, or 312, or maybe even 692? How are you supposed to do it? To explain, we’ll use 81 x 81. Remember that 81 is really close to 80 and 80 x 80 = 6400. So 80 x 81 = 6400 + 80 = 6480. 81 x 81Continue reading “Near round number squared”

The sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon

But what is a regular polygon, anyway? A regular polygon is a polygon with the same side lengths and angle measures. And interior angles are the angles inside the shape, like this: So all the interior angles will be same if they are on a regular polygon. Now that we’re done with the definitions, backContinue reading “The sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon”

A Joke on Trigonometry!

Silly? Well, I wanted it to be! Enjoy!

A joke on Negative Powers!

Well we know, 21 = 2. Do you know that 2-1 = 1/2? If you didn’t, here is an easy and funny way to remember. In 21 both the 2 and 1 are positive & happy. But when a negative 1 comes, they don’t get along, so 1 builds a border (the division symbol /Continue reading “A joke on Negative Powers!”