59 (number)

← 58 59 60 →
← 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 → List of numbers Integers ← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →
Cardinal	fifty-nine
Ordinal	59th (fifty-ninth)
Factorization	prime
Prime	17th
Divisors	1, 59
Greek numeral	ΝΘ´
Roman numeral	LIX, lix
Binary	1110112
Ternary	20123
Senary	1356
Octal	738
Duodecimal	4B12
Hexadecimal	3B16

A regular icosahedron has 59 stellations.

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

In mathematics

Fifty-nine is the 17th prime number, and 7th super-prime. The next prime number is sixty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime.

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

In other fields

Fifty-nine is:

• The number corresponding to the last minute in a given hour, and the last second in a given minute
  • The "59-minute rule" is an informal rule in business, whereby (usually near a holiday) employees may be allowed to leave work early, often to beat heavy holiday traffic (the 59 minutes coming from the rule that leaving one full hour early requires the use of leave, whereas leaving 59 minutes early would not)
• The number of beads on a Roman Catholic rosary (Dominican). ^[2]
• 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 street number in the informal name of the Queensboro Bridge in New York City that appears in the title of Simon and Garfunkel's song The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy).
• The number assigned to Haydn's "Fire" Symphony.
• The biblical numbering of a Davidic psalm of deliverance.

References

1. H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie. The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra.
2. Richard Poe, "Parts of the Rosary", TheChantRosary.com, 2-4-2018