![]() The saint hugged the idol of lord Shiva that he worshipped (which can be still found in the Amritaghateswarar-Abirami Temple in Thirukkadaiyur, Tamil Nadu, India.) As the noose was wrapped around both the saint and lord Shiva, this made the lord angry and he appeared in his fierce form and vanquished the lord of death, causing a brief catastrophe in the world where no one died. When he turned sixteen, the god of death, Yama, came to look for him and fastened a noose around the saint. Saint Markandeya is said to have been granted to live to 16 years of age.A 16-bit integer can represent up to 65,536 values.In some computer programming languages, the size in bits of certain data types.Group 16 of the periodic table are the chalcogens.Sixteen is the largest known integer n for which 2 n+1 is prime. Sixteen is the base of the hexadecimal number system, which is used extensively in computer science. It has this property because 2 2 = 2 × 2. ![]() Sixteen is the only integer that equals m n and n m, for some unequal integers m and n ( m = 4, n = 2, or vice versa). Sixteen is an even number and a square of four. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and 5 lower beads to represent the 1s, the 7 beads can represent a hexadecimal digit from 0 to 15 in each column. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. ![]() In old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. The British have 16 ounces in one pound the Chinese used to have 16 liangs in one jin. For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures. In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar. ![]() It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4 and 8. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 4 2 = 4 × 4. 16 ( sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. ![]()
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