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There are sixteen pawns in a chess set and each player in a chess game starts with sixteen pieces

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There are sixteen ounces in an avoirdupois pound.

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Sixteen is the minimum age for being allowed an official beginners driver's license with parental consent in many U.S. states and in Canada. In Australia and Norway it is the age one can begin to get a learner's licence.

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Group 16 of the periodic table are the Chalcogens.

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The atomic number of sulfur.

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16 appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 7, 9, 12 (it is the sum of the first two of these).

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16 is the base of the hexadecimal number system, which is used extensively in computer science.

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16 is a centered pentagonal number.

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Since it is possible to find sequences of 16 consecutive integers such that each inner member member shares a factor with either the first or the last member, 16 is an Erdős–Woods number. The smallest such range of 16 consecutive integers is from 2184 to 2200.

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15 and 16 form a Ruth-Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

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