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In
mathematics
Twenty is a composite
number, its proper divisors
being 1,
2,
4,
5
and 10.
Skipping 2 and adding the other divisors gives 20, hence 20 is a semiperfect
number, and since it is not divisible by any of the smaller
semiperfect numbers, it is a primitive
semiperfect number. 20 is the smallest abundant
number that is not a multiple of 3.
20 is the second positive integer with a
prime factorization of the form ,
where q is a prime. Its aliquot
sum is 22, and its aliquot
sequence is (20,22,14,10,8,7,1,0).

It is also the sum of the first four triangular
numbers, making it a tetrahedral
number.
20 is the total number of digits on the
human body, which makes it a convenient number system radix;
such number systems are called vigesimal.
In the former
British currency system, there were twenty shillings
in a pound.
A polyhedron
with twenty faces is an icosahedron.
Twenty is the first number in an early Indian
magic
square of order 3.
In base 10, it is a Harshad
number and the smallest even self
number.

The Monster
group contains 20 sporadic
groups.
The proper factors of 20 are
1,10,2,5,and 4
In science
Biology
- The number of proteinogenic
amino
acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
- The number 20 is used as an index in
measuring visual
acuity. 20/20 indicates normal vision at 20 feet, although it is
commonly used to mean "perfect vision" (Note that this
applies only to countries using the Imperial
system. The metric equivalent is 6/6). When someone is able to see
only after an event how things turned out, that person is often said
to have had "20/20 hindsight".
- There are 20 baby teeth in the deciduous
dentition.

In religion
Age 20 is the age at which Levites
in the time of King
David were allowed "to do the work for the service of the house
of the Lord", the Temple
in Jerusalem (see First
Chronicles Chapter 24, verses 24 and 27). In the time of Ezra
and Nehemiah,
following the Babylonian
captivity, it was Levites
from the age of 20 upwards who were assigned "to oversee the work
of the house of the LORD" (Ezra
Chapter 3, verse 8).
In sports

- Lukas Podolski, German National
soccer player, wears number 20.
- 20 is the new jersey number worn by Ray
Allen.
- Polish soccer Superstar,Zbigniew
Boniek wore number 20 in the National Team.
- 20 is worn by NHL all-star goaltender
Evgeni
Nabokov of the San
Jose Sharks.
- 20 is worn by the MLS Star Taylor
Twellman of the New England Revolution.
In other
fields
- The number of twenty can also be
called a score, (as Abraham
Lincoln did in his Gettysburg
Address).
- In a game of chess
both players have 20 first moves from which to choose
- Twenty
questions is a popular party
game
- Twenty is the age
of majority in Japanese
tradition. Someone who is exactly twenty years old is described as
hatachi
- The Twenty
Year Curse refers to the pattern of presidents
of the United States who assumed office in 1840,
1860, 1880,
1900, 1920,
1940,
and 1960
to die in office. This pattern ended with the 1980
presidency of Reagan,
who survived his time in office and, notably, an attempted
assassination.
- Bands with the number twenty in their
name include Matchbox
Twenty
- A 20-minute-long entertainment
program shown before some films playing in United
Artists movie theaters is called "The Twenty" (spelled
"The 20wenty")
- Yan
Tan Tethera is a 20-word jingle for counting sheep
- The ordinal adjective is vicenary
- 20/20
is a late-night newsmagazine program on the ABC
network, that has been hosted by Barbara
Walters, Hugh
Downs, Elizabeth
Vargas, and others

- In the roleplaying game Dungeons
and Dragons (as well as other RPGs that use twenty-sided dice),
twenty-sided dice play a pivotal role in gameplay, and to "roll
a twenty" is significant to the point that it is sometimes used
in other, usually related, contexts, similar to the use of
"doubles" in reference to Monopoly.
20 is:
- Twenty,
a village
in Lincolnshire
- In the United
States Constitution, $20 is the threshold value of civil
disputes above which the right to trial by jury is preserved
- A denomination of U.S.
dollar featuring Andrew
Jackson's portrait
- A denomination of Pound
sterling featuring Adam
Smith's portrait
- The code
for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt
- The designation of Interstate
20, a freeway that runs from Texas
to South
Carolina
- 20
(album), a 1988
album
by Harry
Connick, Jr.
- Twenty
(album), a 1997
album
by Lynyrd
Skynyrd
- 20
(Terminaator album), a 2007
album
by Terminaator
- Twenty
(concert), a 2006
concert
celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Regine
Velasquez held at the Araneta Coliseum, Philippines. It was
awarded Best Major Concert Act by the Aliw Awards.
- CB
slang for "a place", being short for
"10-20", used in reference to a person or object's
location
- One of the TCP/IP ports used for File
Transfer Protocol
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