Nikhilam...No way!

As some of you already know I work at Math Monkey, a math tutoring/enrichment business.  Yesterday, I went to work and began setting up the classroom.  It was the last class of the session, which we always end with a big game of jeopardy.  As I wrote down the categories, I came upon one called Nikhilam.  Yeah NIKHILam. Like Nikhil.  From The Namesake.  As I read the name over a couple times to make sure I was not acting delirious and making things up, I began thinking about why the name Nikhil was in a term used for math.  I got very sidetracked and probably stood there for a good amount of time thinking about this when I should have been writing the other categories down.  But don't worry guys- I figured it out so it was worth the time.  Okay, so the name Nikhil means "'he who is entire, encompassing all'" (56).  The term Nikhilam at Math Monkey comes from the Vedic term, which is Indian too.  The Nikhilam strategy's saying goes "All from 9, last from 10." I'm not going to lie, I thought it this connection was pretty cool and felt kind of excited/proud of myself when I figured it out.  So, from this experience I've learned that little things make me happy and that you can never really escape from AP English.