Feb 24, 2011

Number Eighteen

Why is that number 18 has so much significance?
  • The right to vote comes at this age.
  • You are called an Adult once you attain this age.
  • You are an minor if you are less than 18. No not even 1 month to 18, you are still a minor.
  • Adult rated movies are for 18+ audience only. This and point 2 are mutually inclusive :).
  • You feel adrenaline pumping and your hormones raging seeing the opposite sex when you reach eighteen.
  • In Mathematics, Eighteen is a composite number (its proper divisors are 1,2,3,6,9).
  • Adding to the above point, Eighteen is a semi perfect number (three of its divisors 3,6,and 9 add upto 18).
  • In Chinese tradition number 18 signifies that one is going to prosper. Thus building floors numbered 18 are expensive in China.
  • In Northern China however, number 18 is to be avoided since it represents the 18th level of hell.
  • The Hindu epic Mahabharata has eighteen sections, involves eighteen armies and is about a war fought over eighteen days.

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