October Novel Prep Challenge

In case you're wondering, some fun facts about the number 16:

* Sixteen is the only number with a format of x^ y= y^ x ( x and y being different numbers, that is 2 and 4). 5.

* Sum of the first four odd numbers is sixteen.

* The hexadecimal number system recognizes sixteen as its base.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-martian-hexidecimal-language-2015-9 (Do you remember that from that movie??)

* Did you know that you can legally drink alcohol at 16-years-old in Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium?

* The majority of caterpillars have 16 legs, with the front three pairs typically being real legs and the other five pairs being stumpy “legs” that stick out of their abdomen. When caterpillars turn into moths or butterflies they only have six legs

* Old maps used to include a compass rose, to indicate the orientation of the map. It was quite common for these compass roses to include sixteen different points, which read as north, north-north-east, north-east, north-east-east and so on.

* There is an unincorporated community in remote Kentucky which is called Sixteen. An unincorporated community is an area which in many cases appears similar to a town but has no local government representation.

* There were sixteen different King Louises in the history of the French monarchy. King Louis XVI wasn’t just the last King Louis, he was also the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy in 1792.

* Sixteen is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16.

* In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar.

* Sixteen is the fourth power of two. For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures.

* The sum of the first four odd numbers (1, 3, 5, 7) is sixteen.

* The human eye can see continuous motion at around 16 frames per second.