Technically speaking the decade isn’t yet over. However, that hasn’t stopped the American Dialect Society from declaring that ‘google’ is the word of the decade. The American Dialect Society is a scholarly association dedicated to the study of English language in North America, which is apparently more than a century old.

Why should we bother about the findings of a society which doesn’t even know how to count years? Well, there is no real reason. Anyway, the society selected ‘tweet’ (noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message) as the word of the year and google’ (a generic form of Google,meaning to search the Internet) as the word of the decade. Other nominees for the world of the decade included ‘blog’, ’9/11′ and ‘Wi-Fi’.

‘Fail’ (a noun or interjection used when something is egregiously unsuccessful) was selected the most useful, while ‘Dracula Sneeze’ (covering one’s mouth with the crook of one’s elbow when sneezing, seen as similar to popular portrayals of the vampire Dracula, in which he hides the lower half of his face with a cape) was adjudged the most creative.

Other categories included most unnecessary, most euphemistic, most outrageous and least likely to succeed words. Go ahead and check out the full report if you like useless fun stats.

Well we are a little late in revealing the answers to the last Maths trivia, but nevertheless we got couple of people who did get it right.

If you are wondering what the trivia was about? We had asked our readers a question to tell us the combination of currency notes that make up $100 with 50 notes, none of those 50 notes could include a $2 note in it.

Before I tell you the answers there were two people who got it right. Congratulations both of you.

1. Ankesh Kothari
2. Rich Fiege

Here are the answers to those, well answers because there are two of it;

Answer 1:

• 40 notes of $1 = $40
• 8 notes of $5 = $40
• 2 notes of $10 = $20

Answer 2:

• 45 notes of $1 = $45
• 3 notes of $5 = $15
• 2 notes of $20 = $40

Well that’s it for this week, hope you enjoyed the trivia this time. Look forward to more people answering it in the next week.

We have always enjoyed playing maths games with users and if you have not been following us we have had a maths trick that guessed your age and also told you about the way it is done. While your at it you may also want to check out few amazing facts about alphabets and numbers or just see how interesting a little bit of mathematics can turn out to be.

Well to not let our new readers away from the excitement here is a new trivia which we want you to solve for this week, answers for it will be posted on Wednesday with special mentions to whoever gets it right, so go ahead rack your brain and tell us how intelligent you are.

The Trivia

A person has $100 ($ is used for representation purpose) in the form of 50 paper currency notes. In the 50 notes the person has, there are no $2 notes at all. We want to know what combination of notes the user has in his pocket that will bring up a total of $100.

Trivia Notes / Tips: Only $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 are accepted as valid currencies. You cannot use $2 notes to create the combination.

Go ahead tell us your combinations, we are looking forward to how intelligent brains work.