24 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

24 is also:

• The number of bits a computer needs to represent TrueColor images (for a maximum of 16,777,216 colours). (But greater numbers of bits provide more accurate colors. "TrueColor" is one of many possible representations of colors.)
• The number of carats representing 100% pure gold.
• The number of cycles in the Chinese solar year.
• The number of frames per second at which motion picture film is usually projected.
• The number of hours in a day.
• The number of letters in both the modern and classical Greek alphabet. For the latter reason, also the number of chapters or "books" into which Homer's Odyssey and Iliad came to be divided.

• 24, television series starring Kiefer Sutherland. Each episode covers one hour, with 24 episodes making up one entire "day".
• The number of points on a backgammon board.
• When pronounced "two-four", a 24-pack of beer (Canadianism).
• A children's mathematical game involving the use of any of the four standard operations on four numbers on a card to get 24 (see Math 24)
• The maximum number of Knight Companions in the Order of the Garter
• 24 is considered an unlucky number in Cantonese culture because its pronunciation is similar to that of "easy to die". For this reason, many buildings skip this floor number. The same goes for 13, 34, 44, etc.
• X is the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet
• In Brazil, the number is associated with homosexuals due to the number representing the deer in the gambling game Jogo do Bicho and the word viado (a misspelling of veado, deer in Portuguese) being a slang for homosexuals.
• The number of the French department Dordogne.
• The alias used by Patrick Star in the animated TV series Spongebob Squarepants when attending driving school.
• Four and twenty is the number of blackbirds baked in a pie in the traditional English nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.