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 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 → 6 playing cards of all four suites 6 may refer to: Years: 6 AD 6 BC 1906 In mathematics: 6 (number) Number Six Category: ... Zero redirects here. ... One redirects here. ... For other uses of 2, see 2 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the number. ... Look up four in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up five in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Seven Days of Creation - 1765 book, title page 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. ... Look up eight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the number. ... This article is about the number 10. ... List of numbers — Integers This is a list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). ... Not to be confused with Natural number. ... 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 → Zero redirects here. ... This article is about the number 10. ... 20 (twenty) is the natural number following 19 and preceding 21. ... 30 (thirty) is the natural number following 29 and preceding 31. ... 40 (forty) is the natural number following 39 and preceding 41. ... 50 (fifty) is the number following 49 and preceding 51. ... 60 (sixty) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. ... Look up seventy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 80 (eighty) is the natural number following 79 and preceding 81. ... 90 (ninety) is the natural number preceded by 89 and followed by 91. ... 100 (one hundred) (the Roman numeral is C for centum) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. ... Cardinal 6 six Ordinal 6th sixth Numeral system senary Factorization $2 cdot 3$ Divisors 1, 2, 3, 6 Roman numeral VI Roman numeral (Unicode) Ⅵ, ⅵ Arabic ٦ Arabic (Urdu) ۶ Amharic ፮ Bengali ৬ Chinese numeral 六，陆 Devanāgarī ६ Hebrew ו (Vav) Khmer ៦ Thai ๖ prefixes hexa-/hex- (from Greek) sexa-/sex- (from Latin) Aleph-0, the smallest infinite cardinal In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are generalized numbers used to measure the cardinality (size) of sets. ... In linguistics, ordinal numbers are the words representing the rank of a number with respect to some order, in particular order or position (i. ... This article is about different methods of expressing numbers with symbols. ... A senary numeral system is a base-six numeral system. ... ... In mathematics, a divisor of an integer n, also called a factor of n, is an integer which evenly divides n without leaving a remainder. ... The system of Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, and was adapted from Etruscan numerals. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... Bangla redirects here. ... Today, speakers of Chinese use three numeral systems: There is the ubiquitous system of Arabic digits and two ancient Chinese numeral systems. ... () is an abugida script used to write several Indo-Aryan languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati,Marathi, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Marwari, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Santhali, Nepali, Newari, Tharu and sometimes Kashmiri and Romani. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Khmer numerals are the numerals used in the Khmer language of Cambodia. ... A numerical prefix is a prefix that denotes a number, which is usually a multiplier for the thing being prefixed. ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... Binary 110 Octal 6 Duodecimal 6 Hexadecimal 6
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6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ... The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the base-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. ... The duodecimal (also known as base-12 or dozenal) system is a numeral system using twelve as its base. ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, base-16, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, usually written using the symbols 0â€“9 and Aâ€“F, or aâ€“f. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... In mathematics, a natural number can mean either an element of the set {1, 2, 3, ...} (i. ... Look up five in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Seven Days of Creation - 1765 book, title page 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. ...

The SI prefix for 10006 is exa (E), and for its reciprocal atto (a). An SI prefix (also known as a metric prefix) is a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple. ... In the X Window System, in the X.Org Server, EXA is a graphics acceleration architecture to make the XRender extension more usable, with only minor changes needed to adapt XFree86 video drivers written to use XAA (the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture). ... Atto- (symbol a) is an SI prefix to a unit and means that it is 10-18 times this unit. ...

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Six is the second smallest composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2 and 3. Since six equals the sum of these proper divisors, six is a perfect number. As a perfect number, 6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since 21(22 - 1) = 6. (The next perfect number is 28.) Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive numbers.[1] A composite number is a positive integer which has a positive divisor other than one or itself. ... In mathematics, a divisor of an integer n, also called a factor of n, is an integer which evenly divides n without leaving a remainder. ... One redirects here. ... For other uses of 2, see 2 (disambiguation). ... This article is about the number. ... In mathematics, a perfect number is defined as an integer which is the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of the positive divisors not including the number. ... In mathematics, a Mersenne number is a number that is one less than a power of two. ... 28 (twenty-eight) is the natural number following 27 and preceding 29. ...

Six is a unitary perfect number, a harmonic divisor number and a highly composite number. The next highly composite number is 12. A unitary perfect number is an integer which is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, not including the number itself. ... A harmonic divisor number, or Ore number, is a number whose divisors, averaged in a harmonic mean, results in an integer. ... A highly composite number is a positive integer which has more divisors than any positive integer below it. ... Look up twelve in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

5 and 6 form a Ruth-Aaron pair under either definition. A Ruth-Aaron pair consists of two consecutive integers (e. ...

The smallest non-abelian group is the symmetric group S3 which has 3! = 6 elements. In mathematics, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group (G, * ) with the additional property that * commutes: for all a and b in G, a * b = b * a. ... This picture illustrates how the hours on a clock form a group under modular addition. ... In mathematics, the symmetric group on a set X, denoted by SX or Sym(X), is the group whose underlying set is the set of all bijective functions from X to X, in which the group operation is that of composition of functions, i. ... For factorial rings in mathematics, see unique factorisation domain. ...

S6, with 720 elements, is the only finite symmetric group which has an outer automorphism. This automorphism allows us to construct a number of exceptional mathematical objects such as the S(5,6,12) Steiner system, the projective plane of order 4 and the Hoffman-Singleton graph. A closely related result is the following theorem: 6 is the only natural number n for which there is a construction of n isomorphic objects on an n-set A, invariant under all permutations of A, but not naturally in 1-1 correspondence with the elements of A. This can also be expressed category theoretically: consider the category whose objects are the n element sets and whose arrows are the bijections between the sets. This category has a non-trivial functor to itself only for n=6. In combinatorial mathematics, a Steiner system is a type of block design. ... Projective plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Hoffman-Singleton graph is a graph with the following properties: The graph has 50 vertices. ... In mathematics, categories allow one to formalize notions involving abstract structure and processes that preserve structure. ... A bijective function. ... In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a functor is a special type of mapping between categories. ...

Six similar coins can be arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact with the central one (and touches both its neighbors without a gap), but seven cannot be so arranged. This makes 6 the answer to the two-dimensional kissing number problem. The densest sphere packing of the plane is obtained by extending this pattern to the hexagonal lattice in which each circle touches just six others. In geometry, the kissing number problem is to find the maximum number of spheres of radius 1 that can simultaneously touch the unit sphere in n-dimensional Euclidean space (or, with the restriction for their centres to be in a particular lattice). ... Sphere packing finds practical application in the stacking of oranges. ... For other uses, see Hexagon (disambiguation). ... In mathematics, especially in geometry and group theory, a lattice in Rn is a discrete subgroup of Rn which spans the real vector space Rn. ...

6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. A Harshad number, or Niven number, is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits in a given number base. ...

A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three polygons capable of tiling the plane. Figurate numbers representing hexagons (including six) are called hexagonal numbers. Six is also an octahedral number. It is a triangular number and so is its square (36). Look up polygon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Hexagon (disambiguation). ... A tessellated plane seen in street pavement. ... A figurate number is a number that can be represented as a regular and discrete geometric pattern (e. ... A hexagonal number is a figurate number that represents a hexagon. ... An octahedral number is a figurate number that represents an octahedron, or two pyramids placed together, one upside-down underneath the other. ... A triangular number is the sum of the n natural numbers from 1 to n. ... In mathematics, a square number, sometimes also called a perfect square, is an integer that can be written as the square of some other integer; in other words, it is the product of some integer with itself. ... 36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37. ...

There are six basic trigonometric functions. In mathematics, the trigonometric functions are functions of an angle, important when studying triangles and modeling periodic phenomena. ...

There are six convex regular polytopes in four dimensions. In mathematics, a convex regular 4-polytope (or polychoron) is 4-dimensional polytope which is both a regular and convex. ... Dimension (from Latin measured out) is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. ...

` 6 = 0110 9 = 1001 `

### In numeral systems

Base Numeral system
2 binary 110
3 ternary 20
4 quaternary 12
5 quinary 11
6 senary 10
over 6 (decimal, hexadecimal) 6

In base 10, 6 is a 1-automorphic number. The radix (Latin for root), also called base, is the number of various unique symbols (or digits or numerals) a positional numeral system uses to represent numbers. ... This article is about different methods of expressing numbers with symbols. ... The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ... Ternary or trinary is the base-3 numeral system. ... Quaternary is the base four numeral system. ... Quinary (base-5) is a numeral system with five as the base. ... A senary numeral system is a base-six numeral system. ... For other uses, see Decimal (disambiguation). ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, base-16, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, usually written using the symbols 0â€“9 and Aâ€“F, or aâ€“f. ... In mathematics an automorphic number (sometimes referred to as a circular number) is a number whose square ends in the number itself. ...

### List of basic calculations

Multiplication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 50 100 1000
$6 times x$ 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90 96 102 108 114 120 126 132 138 144 150 300 600 6000
Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
$6 div x$ 6 3 2 1.5 1.2 1 $0.overline{8}5714overline{2}$ 0.75 $0.overline{6}$ 0.6 $0.overline{5}overline{4}$ 0.5 $0.overline{4}6153overline{8}$ $0.overline{4}2857overline{1}$ 0.4
$x div 6$ $0.1overline{6}$ $0.overline{3}$ 0.5 $0.overline{6}$ $0.8overline{3}$ 1 $1.1overline{6}$ $1.overline{3}$ 1.5 $1.overline{6}$ $1.8overline{3}$ 2 $2.1overline{6}$ $2.overline{3}$ 2.5
Exponentiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
$6 ^ x,$ 6 36 216 1296 7776 46656 279936 1679616 10077696 60466176 362797056 2176782336 13060694016
$x ^ 6,$ 1 64 729 4096 15625 46656 117649 262144 531441 1000000 1771561 2985984 4826809

In mathematics, multiplication is an elementary arithmetic operation. ... Look up twelve in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. ... 24 (twenty-four) is the natural number following 23 and preceding 25. ... 30 (thirty) is the natural number following 29 and preceding 31. ... 36 (thirty-six) is the natural number following 35 and preceding 37. ... Look up forty-two in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 48 (forty-eight) is the natural number following 47 and preceding 49. ... 54 (fifty-four) is the natural number following 53 and preceding 55. ... 60 (sixty) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. ... 66 is the natural number following 65 and preceding 67. ... 72 is the natural number following 71 and preceding 73. ... 78 (seventy-eight) is the natural number following 77 and followed by 79. ... 84 (eighty-four) is the natural number following 83 and preceding 85. ... 90 (ninety) is the natural number preceded by 89 and followed by 91. ... 96 is the natural number following 95 and preceding 97. ... 102 (one hundred two) is the natural number following 101 and preceding 103. ... 108 is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109. ... 114 (one hundred and fourteen) is the natural number following 113 and preceding 115. ... 120 (one hundred twenty in American English; one hundred and twenty in British English) is the natural number following 119 and preceding 121. ... 126 is the natural number following 125 and preceding 127. ... 132 is the natural number following 131 and preceding 133. ... 138 (one hundred [and] thirty-eight) is the natural number following 137 but before 139. ... 144 is the whole number following 143 and preceding 145. ... 150 is the natural number following 149 and preceding 151. ... 300 (three hundred) is the natural number following two hundred ninety-nine and preceding three hundred one. ... Six hundred is the natural number following five and hundred ninety-nine and preceding six hundred and one. ... Six thousand (6000) is the natural number following 5999 and preceding 6001. ... In mathematics, especially in elementary arithmetic, division is an arithmetic operation which is the inverse of multiplication. ... â€œExponentâ€ redirects here. ... Number of Nicolae Carpathias choice in the best-selling Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins. ... 64 (sixty-four) is the natural number following 63 and preceding 65. ... One million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. ...

## Evolution of the glyph

The evolution of our modern glyph for 6 appears rather simple when compared with that for the other numerals. Our modern 6 can be traced back to the Brahmins of India, who wrote it in one stroke like a cursive lowercase e rotated 45 degrees clockwise. Gradually, the upper part of the stroke (above the central squiggle) became more curved, while the lower part of the stroke (below the central squiggle) became straighter. The Ghubar Arabs dropped the part of the stroke below the squiggle. From there, the European evolution to our modern 6 was very straightforward, aside from a flirtation with a glyph that looked more like an uppercase G.[2] Note that the word Brahmin is also known as Brahman in English due to some translation issues between the Upanishads (Hindu Holy Texts) and modern English* Brahmin, in Hinduism, traditionally refers to the priestly caste or a member of this caste in the Hindu caste system. ...

On the seven-segment displays of calculators and watches, 6 is usually written with six segments. Some historical calculator models use just five segments for the 6, by omitting the top horizontal bar. This glyph variant has not caught on. For calculators that can display results in hexadecimal, a 6 that looks like a B is not practical. A seven-segment display (abbreviation: 7-seg(ment) display), less commonly known as a seven-segment indicator, is a form of display device that is an alternative to the more complex dot-matrix displays. ...

Just as in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the 6 character usually has an ascender, as, for example, in . â€œFontâ€ redirects here. ... Hoefler Text, a contemporary font, uses hanging or old style text figures. ... The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline, highlighted in red. ... Image File history File links The numerals 0, 3 and 6 written in text figures. ...

This numeral resembles an inverted 9. To disambiguate the two on objects and documents that can be inverted, the 6 has often been underlined, both in handwriting and on printed labels.

## In science

• The atomic number of carbon
• The number of carbon atoms and carbon-carbon bonds in benzene
• The number of known quarks and leptons
• The number of tastes in traditional Indian Medicine called Ayurveda. They are: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent. These tastes are used to suggest a diet based on the symptoms of the body

See also: List of elements by atomic number In chemistry and physics, the atomic number (also known as the proton number) is the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom. ... For other uses, see Carbon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Atom (disambiguation). ... A chemical bond is the physical process responsible for the attractive interactions between atoms and molecules, and that which confers stability to diatomic and polyatomic chemical compounds. ... Benzene, or Benzol (see also Benzine), is an organic chemical compound and a known carcinogen with the molecular formula C6H6. ... For other uses, see Quark (disambiguation). ... For the former Greek currency unit, see Greek drachma. ...

## In television and film

• The audio component of any broadcast channel 6 is located at 87.7 MHz. This means that people can listen to TV stations such as WSYX using an FM radio when a television is not nearby
• Number Six was the main character in the television series The Prisoner
• Number Six is a character in the television mini-series and series Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining)
• Six is the name of a character on Blossom
• On the show Sesame Street, six is Bert's favorite number.
• There are six friends on the television sitcom Friends.
• Six (along with twenty-three and 801) is a recurring number on the revived series of Doctor Who.
• The film Six Degrees of Separation deals with the sociological concept of the same name
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a game that can be played with the names of actors and actresses

## In other fields

• A hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces, with a cube being a special case
• An hexagon is a regular polygon with six sides
• L' Hexagone is a French nickname for the continental part of France
All insects have six legs.
• A hexapod is an animal with six legs; this includes all insects
• Hexameter is a poetic form consisting of six feet per line
• "Hexadecimal" combines hexa- with the Latinate decimal to name a number base of 16
• A "hex nut", of course, is a nut with six sides, and a hex bolt has a six-sided head.

The prefix "hexa-" also occurs in the systematic name of many chemical compounds, such as "hexamethyl" A hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces. ... For the game magazine, see Polyhedron (magazine). ... Three dimensions A cube (or hexahedron) is a Platonic solid composed of six square faces, with three meeting at each vertex. ... For other uses, see Hexagon (disambiguation). ... A regular pentagon A regular polygon is a simple polygon (a polygon which does not intersect itself anywhere) which is equiangular (all angles are equal) and equilateral (all sides have the same length). ... Image File history File links Rhynchophorus_ferrugineus. ... Image File history File links Rhynchophorus_ferrugineus. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera... Classes & Orders Class Insecta (insects) Class Entognatha The subphylum Hexapoda (from the Greek for six legs) constitutes the largest (in terms of number of species) grouping of arthropods and includes the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera... Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ... In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal, base-16, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16, usually written using the symbols 0â€“9 and Aâ€“F, or aâ€“f. ... A numeral is a symbol or group of symbols that represents a number. ... Look up nut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up bolt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... There are millions of possible objects that can be described in science, too many to create common names for every one. ... A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more different elements chemically bonded together in a fixed proportion by mass. ...

Sex- is a Latin prefix meaning "six". Thus: For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... In linguistics, a prefix is a type of affix that precedes the morphemes to which it can attach. ...

• A group of six musicians is called a sextet
• Six babies delivered in one birth are sextuplets. The first set of sextuplets of whom all six survived are the Dilley sextuplets
• People with sexdactyly have six fingers on each hand
• The measuring instrument called a sextant got its name because its shape forms one sixth of a whole circle
• The ordinal adjective senary

A Sextet is a formation containing exactly six members. ... Identical Triplet Sisters A multiple birth results when more than one human baby is born from a single pregnancy. ... The Dilley sextuplets (Brenna, Julian, Quinn, Claire, Ian and Adrian), of Des Moines ,Iowa were the first surviving set of sextuplets in the United States. ... Sexdactyly is a genetic condition in which a person has six fingers on one or both hands, or six toes on one or both feet. ... A sextant is a measuring instrument generally used to measure the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. ... This article is about the shape and mathematical concept of circle. ...

## References

1. ^ Peter Higgins, Number Story. London: Copernicus Books (2008): 12
2. ^ Georges Ifrah, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer transl. David Bellos et al. London: The Harvill Press (1998): 395, Fig. 24.66
• The Odd Number 6, JA Todd, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 41 (1945) 66--68
• A Property of the Number Six, Chapter 6, P Cameron, JH v. Lint, Designs, Graphs, Codes and their Links ISBN 0-521-42385-6
• Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers London: Penguin Group. (1987): 67 - 69

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