Numlore

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16

Curated entry for 16.

Numerological root

1+6=7

7

— the mystic

15 17

readings
Cultural — the named echo
  • Sweet sixteen

    US coming-of-age party tradition. In NCAA basketball, the round of 16 teams in March Madness.

  • 16-bit

    Generation of game consoles after the 8-bit era — SNES, Mega Drive / Genesis, TurboGrafx-16.

Major — the phonetic cipher
  • touch, dish, teach, dutch, tissue, dodge

    consonant skeleton t·d·sh·ch·j — 11 candidates in the dictionary

Math — the property
  • 2⁴

    Smallest non-trivial fourth power; also a square (4²).