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IN MATHEMATICS Sixteen is a Composite Number , the smallest number with exactly five Divisor s, its proper divisors being , , and . It is the fourth Power Of Two . For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures. The British used to have 16 ounces in one pound, the Chinese used to have 16 liangs in one jin. In old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. 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. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5's and 5 lower beads to represent the 1's, the 7 beads can represent from a hexadecimal digit from 0 to 15 in each column. Sixteen is the only integer that equals and , for some unequal integral ''m'' and ''n'' (''m''=4, ''n''=2, or vice versa). It has this property because . It is also equal to 2↑↑3, (using Knuth's Up-arrow Notation ). 16 is a Centered Pentagonal Number . 16 is the base of the Hexadecimal number system, which is used extensively in Computer Science . IN SCIENCE
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IN HUMAN AFFAIRS: AGE 16 16 is the age limit for being allowed a Driver's License in many US states and in Canada , in Australia it is the age one can begin to get their Learners licence, and for getting an adult job in most states and provinces in those countries (as well as, complementarily, dropping out of school). It is also the Age Of Consent for many jurisdictions around the world. For its coming-of-age signification, it has inspired the titles of many songs, such as "''Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen''", "''You're Sixteen, You're Beautiful and You're Mine''", "''Sweet Little Sixteen''" and "'' Sixteen Candles ''", the last of which was borrowed as the title of a John Hughes movie. In The United States of America Sixteen is a turning point age for young Americans. Not only do American sixteen year olds gain the ability to acquire an official driver's license, but female sixteen year olds also gain privacy laws surrounding OBGYN practices. IN OTHER FIELDS
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