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Sixteen

Historical Significance: 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4 and 8. In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar. Sixteen is the fourth power of two. For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures. The British have 16 ounces in one pound; the Chinese used to have 16 liangs in one jin. In old days[vague], weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and 5 lower beads to represent the 1s, the 7 beads can represent a hexadecimal digit from 0 to 15 in each column. Sixteen is an even number and a square number. Sixteen is the fourth power of two. Sixteen is the only integer that equals mn and nm, for some unequal integers m and n (m = 4, n = 2, or vice versa).[1] It has this property because 22 = 2 × 2. It is also equal to 32 (see tetration). Sixteen is the base of the hexadecimal number system, which is used extensively in computer science. Sixteen is the largest known integer n for which 2n+1 is prime. In technology • In some computer programming languages, the size in bits of certain data types • 16-bit computing • A 16-bit integer can represent up to 65,536 values. • 16 steps make up the average bar of music in a 4/4 musical arrangement. The Roland TR-808, for instance, has 16 buttons that light up representing 16 16th notes making up a drum pattern. • Sixteen, Kentucky, a community in the United States • King of France (August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis XVI of France • There are 16 ounces in an avoirdupois pound • There are 16 pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces • The Sixteen is an English choir performing early religious music • In the video game No Man's Sky, 16 is central to the plot as it is the number of minutes before the Atlas simulation resets. • Sixteen is a Polish band that represented Poland in the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest • The Cadillac Sixteen • There are 16 different personality types in the Myers-Briggs classification system • A note played for one-sixteenth the duration of a whole note is called a sixteenth note or a semiquaver • In the 16-bit era, 16-bit microprocessor ran 16-bit applications • Sixteen Kingdoms, part of Chinese history • The fighter jet, the F-16 Fighting Falcon • 16 mm film was originally an amateur movie format, but is now used by professionals • "16" is a song by American band Green Day • The M16 rifle • A sixteen is a slang term for a verse in a hip hop song, which are often written in 16-bar stanzas. • Android 16, a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga and anime series • The amount of waking hours in a day in an "8 hours of sleep" schedule • In the story of the Sleeping Beauty, a spell is placed on the princess that when she reaches her 16th birthday, she will "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" • 16 is the number of the French department Charente • Many bank card numbers are 16 digits long • There is a No Doubt song titled "Sixteen" on the album Tragic Kingdom • The metalcore band Demon Hunter has a song titled "Sixteen" on their Storm the Gates of Hell album • The number of rays in the Vergina Sun, symbol by Philip's Argead dynasty, possible religious symbol representing the Olympian gods. • There are sixteen petals on the Imperial Seal of Japan. This hand drawn (with mouse) using sophisticated software (paint) was created as an exclusive NFT by The Accountant. Collection: The Numbers Use Case: Good for Counting Rarity: Common Minted on July 2, 2021 during the first week of Enter.art