By the Numbers #55

April date on which the Church of England commemorates Mark the Evangelist

Number of days in January (Mensis Ianuarius) in the Roman Republican calendar used until 45 BCE (when it was replaced by the Julian calendar)

Year of the Norman Conquest of England

Number that comprises the Spanish or Italian name of a proprietary crazy eights-style card game with a specially printed deck (which includes numbered, skip and reverse cards, among others)

Number found spelled out in the name of a U.S. magazine targeted to 13-to-19-year-old females

Number of JetPunk sovereign states that share a land border with Benin

Atomic number of the element gallium

(Number of pounds in a ton ÷ 2) + (number of tablespoons in a cup * 2)

Cardinality of the avenue number found in the name of the U.S. luxury brand whose brick-and-mortar stores now go by the name of “SFA”

Number of species of Pokémon introduced in the first generation of the role-playing video game (1996-1998)

Denomination of the U.S. banknote sometimes referred to as a “Benjamin”

Sum of the numbers found in the title of the 1980 film about three working women (played by Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton) who fantasize about overthrowing their company’s sexist, autocratic vice president

60 80/82 + 40 2/82

Number of years in Tibet in the title of Heinrich Harrer’s 1952 autobiographical book

Number of sides a triacontatrigon has

Number “andMe” found in the name of a biotechnology company perhaps best known for its DNA-based ancestry test kits

Number of provinces (províncias) that comprise the first level administrative divisions of Angola

Number saved by a stitch in time, according to the proverb

DCC ÷ II