Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on 4 November 2008. While working on a BAB about the number 44, MathBabbler learned that 44 is a tribonacci number. MathBabbler didn't know about tribonacci numbers and he observed that
24
is also a tribonacci number.More reasons for doing this BAB...
The digits of 42 (the "Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything") reversed is
24
.When doing BARS (Basic Arithmetic Road Signs), 4! is often used to create the number
24
.MathBabbler Number Analyst (MBNA) output: ========================================= 24 is a natural, whole, integer 24 is even 24 proper divisors are: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12, 24 is abundant (sum of divisors is 36) 24 is unhappy 24 is a Harshad number 24 is not prime 24 is undulating 24 has the prime factors: 2*2*2*3 24 in octal is 030 24 in hexadecimal is 0x18 24 in binary is 11000 (is evil) 24 nearest square numbers: -8...1 (16 [4]...25 [5]) sqrt(24) = 4.89898 ln(24) = 3.17805 log(24) = 1.38021 24 reciprocal is .04166666666666666666666666666666 24! is 6.20448e+23 24 is 7.63944 Pi years 24 is 1 score and 4 years
24
in Roman numeral isXXIV
.
24
is a tribonacci number.The reciprocal of
24
rounded to the nearest thousandth is 42 thousandths.Wikipedia tidbit: "The SI prefix for 10^
24
is yotta (Y), and for 10^-24
is yocto (y). These numbers are the largest and smallest number to receive an SI prefix to date."Wikipedia tidbit: "
24
is the smallest number with exactly eight divisors."A case of beer is
24
bottles of beer.Two dozen foos is
24
foos. [Where foos represent whatever you want.]One of MathBabbler's favorite Neil Young lyric is "
24
and there's so much more..." from the song "Heart of Gold." Speaking of gold... 100% gold is24
carets. MathBabbler also likes Stephen Stills' song titled "4 + 20," which starts with the lyric "4 and 20 years ago I come into this life." (i.e. Stills could have written "24
years ago..."The song titled "
24
" by Jem was added to Songs With Numbers In Their Titles.
Creator: Gerald Thurman
[gthurman@gmail.com]
Created: 05 November 2008