Six-and-Twenty
In preparation of my potential career as a journalist, I have ripped the following facts from Wikipedia and present them to you completely unverified:
26 (number):
| Cardinal | twenty-six |
| Ordinal | 26th (twenty-sixth) |
| Factorization |  |
| Divisors | 1, 2, 13, 26 |
| Roman numeral | XXVI |
| Binary | 110102 |
| Octal | 328 |
| Duodecimal | 2212 |
| Hexadecimal | 1A16 |
In mathematics
Pierre de Fermat proved that 26 is the only number between a square (25 = 52) and a cube (27 = 33).
In science
- The atomic number of iron
- The number of spacetime dimensions in bosonic string theory.
In religion
- 26 is the gematric number of the true name of god – Yahweh
- According to Jewish chronology, God gave the Torah in the 26th generation since Creation
In other fields
Twenty-six is:
- A 2003 novel by Leo McKay, Jr..
- The number of letters in the English and Interlingua alphabets, if capital letters are not distinguished from lowercase letters.
- The number of miles in a marathon rounded down (26 miles and 385 yards).
- Michigan is the 26th state to be admitted to the United States.
- Often the number of episodes in a television program each year; this allows one new show per week for half the year, and one rerun per week for the rest of the year.
- The alias of punk rock singer Doc Corbin Dart
- The age at which males can no longer be drafted in the United States
- The “joke throw” in the game of darts, where a player throws 20, 5 and 1 when aiming for 20 (or treble 20). In professional darts, throwing 26 usually results in sneers or laughter from the audience.
- A dice game popular in the midwest United States from the 1930s to 1950s; players had to roll a chosen number 26 times or more, exactly 13 or fewer than 10[2].
- The number of the French department Drôme
- John Terry, captain of Chelsea F.C. and England national football team defender wears the number 26 for Chelsea.
- Patrik Elias wears #26 for the New Jersey Devils.
- Interstate 26 a freeway that runs from Tennessee to South Carolina.
26 is also the number of years since my birth, according to a source that does not wish to be identified.
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