Twenty
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Twenty is the number that is after nineteen and before twenty-one.
The prime factors of twenty are 2, 2, and 5. (2 * 2 * 5 = 20)
Its factors are: 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10. As the sum of its factors is more than itself (ie 22), it can be referred to as an abundant number.
20 can been used as a number base. Remnants of this system remain in some European languages, for example in the English “score” (20) and the French “quatre vingts” (80, literally four groups of twenty). The old (pre-decimal) English monetary system enjoyed twenty shillings in a pound. The ancient Mayan numerical system - counting on fingers and toes - was a base 20 or "vigesimal" system.
A polyhedron of 20 faces is an icosahedron: one of the five Platonic solids. It is a convex regular polyhedron composed of twenty triangular faces, with five meeting at each of the twelve vertices. It has 30 edges and 12 vertices. Its dual polyhedron is the dodecahedron.
In Japanese tradition, adulthood is established at the age of 20. See seijin not hi (the celebration of the adulthood in Japan).
It is the number of milk teeth in a infant’s mouth.
