Tuesday, August 7, 2007

62 by the numbers

Cardinal : 62 sixty-two
Ordinal : 62nd sixty-second
Divisors : 1, 2, 31, 62
Roman numeral : LXII
Binary : 111110
Hexadecimal : 3E

In science
* The atomic number of samarium, a lanthanide

In mathematics
* Sixty-two is a composite number with divisors 2 and 31. It is a nontotient.
* 62 is a repdigit in base 5 (222).

In other fields

Sixty-two is:
* The code for international direct dial calls to Indonesia
* The number of the French department Pas-de-Calais
* The home of Wallace and Gromit is located at 62 West Wallaby Street
* The number of counties in New York state
* The amount in British pence that the British Royal Family cost each British citizen in the 2005-2006 financial year.
* The model name of a Maybach car
* The channel George Newman owns in the 1989 movie UHF
* The number of ships in the R class in World War I
* One of two numbers used by Will Ferrell's title character in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the other being 26
* A Band called Sixty Second had a CD "Sixty Seconds of Chaos"
* 62 was Velvet Brown's winning raffle ticket number in the 1944 film 'National Velvet'

At age 62
* Ed Sullivan, introduced the Beatles to America, 1964
* Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccination against rabies, 1885
* Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as President, 1944
* David Ben-Gurion becomes Israel's 1st Prime Minister, 1948
* John Wayne wins an Oscar for Best Actor for True Grit, 1969
* David Niven wrote his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, 1971

Source : Wikipedia

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