59 (number)

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59 (fifty-nine) is the natural number following 58 and preceding 60.

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Cardinal	59 fifty-nine
Ordinal	59th fifty-ninth
Factorization	prime
Divisors	1, 59
Roman numeral	LIX
Binary	110111
Hexadecimal	3B

Contents 1 In mathematics 2 In science 2.1 Astronomy 3 In music 4 In sports 5 In other fields 6 Historical years 7 Notes

[edit] In mathematics

Fifty-nine is the 17th smallest prime number. The next is sixty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime. 59 is an irregular prime, a safe prime and the 14th supersingular prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. Since 15! + 1 is divisible by 59 but 59 is not one more than a multiple of 15, 59 is a Pillai prime.

It is also a highly cototient number.

There are 59 stellations of the icosahedron.^[1]

[edit] In science

• The atomic number of praseodymium, a lanthanide

[edit] Astronomy

• Messier object M59, a magnitude 11.5 galaxy in the constellation Virgo

• The New General Catalogue object NGC 59, a magnitude 12.4 spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus

• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on 1031 BC June 19 and ended on 249 July 27. The duration of Saros series 59 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.

• The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 729 BC March 30 and ended on 569 May 16. The duration of Saros series 59 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 lunar eclipses.

[edit] In music

• Beethoven's Opus 59 consists of the three so-called Razumovsky Quartets.
• 59, an album by Puffy AmiYumi
• The 1960s song "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" was popularized by Simon and Garfunkel and Harpers Bizarre

[edit] In sports

• Nascar Driver Marcos Ambrose drives car #59
• Satchel Paige became the oldest major league baseball player at age 59
• 59 is a magical golf score achieved on the PGA Tour by Al Geiberger, Chip Beck and David Duval and on the LPGA Tour by Annika Sörenstam.

[edit] In other fields

Fifty-nine is:

• The designation of Interstate 59, a freeway that runs from Louisiana to Georgia
• The designation of US-59, a highway between Minnesota and Texas
• Approximately the number of days in two lunar months
• The model number of the Texas Instruments TI-59 calculator, one of the first programmable calculators
• The Queensboro Bridge in New York City is also known as the 59th Street Bridge
• Central Park South is on 59th Street in New York CIty
• Daniel Defoe wrote his first novel, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe at age 59
• Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross at age 59
• The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar
• The subject of a 59 second video festival 59 movies each 59 seconds by 59 artists from around the world
• Five Nine, an amateur radio magazine published in Japan

[edit] Historical years

59 A.D., 59 B.C., 1959, 2059, etc.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie. The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra.