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| [[File:Seventeenth stellation of icosahedron.png|thumb|right|246px|A regular [[icosahedron]] has [[The fifty nine icosahedra|59 stellations]]]]
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| '''59''' ('''fifty-nine''') is the [[natural number]] following [[58 (number)|58]] and preceding [[60 (number)|60]].
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| ==In mathematics==
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| '''Fifty-nine''' is the 17th smallest [[prime number]]. The next is [[sixty-one]], with which it comprises a [[twin prime]]. 59 is an [[Regular prime|irregular prime]], a [[safe prime]] and the 14th [[supersingular prime (moonshine theory)|supersingular prime]]. It is an [[Eisenstein prime]] with no imaginary part and real part of the form <math>3n - 1</math>. Since 15! + 1 is divisible by 59 but 59 is not one more than a multiple of 15, 59 is a [[Pillai prime]].
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| It is also a [[highly cototient number]].
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| There are 59 [[stellation]]s of the [[icosahedron]].<ref>[[Coxeter|H. S. M. Coxeter]], P. Du Val, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie. ''The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra''.</ref>
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| 59 is one of the factors that divides the smallest composite [[Euclid number]]. In this case 59 divides the Euclid number 13# + 1 = 2 * 3 * 5 * 7 * 11 * 13 + 1 = 59 * 509.
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| ==In science==
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| *The [[atomic number]] of [[praseodymium]], a lanthanide
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| ===Astronomy===
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| *[[Messier object]] [[Messier 59|M59]], a [[visual magnitude|magnitude]] 11.5 [[galaxy]] in the [[constellation]] [[Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]]
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| *The [[New General Catalogue]] [http://www.ngcic.org/ object] [[NGC 59]], a magnitude 12.4 [[spiral galaxy]] in the constellation [[Cetus]]
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| *The [[Saros number|Saros]] [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros1-175.html number] of the [[solar eclipse]] series which began in June, 1031 BC June and ended in July, 249 AD. The duration of Saros series 59 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.
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| *The Saros [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEsaros/LEsaros1-175.html number] of the [[lunar eclipse]] series which began in March, 729 BC and ended in May, 569 AD. The duration of Saros series 59 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 lunar eclipses.
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| ==In music==
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| * Beethoven's Opus 59 consists of the three so-called Razumovsky Quartets
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| * [[59 (Puffy album)|59]], an album by [[Puffy AmiYumi]]
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| * The 1960s song "[[The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)]]" was popularized by [[Simon & Garfunkel]] and [[Harpers Bizarre]]
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| * [[The '59 Sound]], an album by [[The Gaslight Anthem]]; includes the [[The '59 Sound (song)|song of the same name]]
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| * The album [[14:59]] by [[Sugar Ray]]
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| *.59 is a song by djTAKA from [[beatmania IIDX 2nd Style]] and [[Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX]]
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| *'59 is the sixth track on the album [[Ignition!]] by [[Brian Setzer]]
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| ==In sports==
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| * [[NASCAR]] driver [[Marcos Ambrose]] drives car #59
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| * [[Satchel Paige]] became the oldest [[major league baseball]] player at age 59
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| * 59 is the lowest golf score in a single round on the [[PGA Tour]], achieved by [[Al Geiberger]], [[Chip Beck]], [[David Duval]], [[Paul Goydos]], [[Stuart Appleby]], and [[Jim Furyk]] and on the LPGA Tour by [[Annika Sörenstam]]
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| * Lowest score recorded at MGC Invitational in Branson, MO
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| ==In other fields==
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| [[File:TI-59.jpg|thumb|right|The [[TI-59]] was a [[programmable calculator]]]]
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| Fifty-nine is:
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| * The number corresponding to the last minute in a given [[hour]], and the last second in a given [[minute]]
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| * The designation of [[Interstate 59]], a freeway that runs from [[Louisiana]] to [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
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| * The designation of [[U.S. Route 59|US-59]], a highway between [[Minnesota]] and [[Texas]]
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| * Approximately the number of days in two [[lunar month]]s
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| * The [[Queensboro Bridge]] in [[New York City]] is also known as the 59th Street Bridge
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| * [[Central Park South]] is on [[59th Street (Manhattan)|59th Street]] in New York City
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| * The number on a [[Campaign button (political)|button]] commonly worn by [[feminism|feminist]] activists in the [[1970s]]; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 [[Cent (currency)|cent]]s to an equally qualified man's [[dollar]]
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| * Art Project 59's "59 Seconds Video Festival"<ref>[http://project59.org/59seconds/ 59 Seconds Video Festival]</ref> at 59 Franklin Street, showed 59 videos to 59 different audiences, each 59 seconds long and incorporating the number 59
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| * In [[amateur radio]], a perfect signal report
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| ** ''[[Five Nine]]'', an [[amateur radio]] [[magazine]] published in [[Japan]]
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| * The number of the [[French department]] [[Nord (department)|Nord]]
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| * In the UK, the [[List of British bingo nicknames|bingo nickname]] for 59 is "The [[Brighton]] Line", after the [[LBSCR|London, Brighton & South Coast Railway]]
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| == Notes ==
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| {{Integers|zero}}
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| [[Category:Integers]]
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My name is Clair and I am studying Athletics and Physical Education and Earth Sciences at Nashville / United States.
Feel free to visit my site ... Oltramare