72 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

Seventy-two is also:

• The ASCII code for 'H'
• The number of hours in 3 days.
• In dpi, the standard resolution of an Apple Macintosh screen.
• In typography, point sizes are measured in 1/72 of an inch, 72-point characters are 1 inch tall.
• The number of the French department Sarthe.
• The designation of USA Interstate 72, a freeway that runs from Missouri to Illinois, East <> West.
• Municipal Okrug 72, a municipal okrug of Frunzensky District of Saint Petersburg, Russia
• The registry of the U.S. Navy's nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), named after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
• The designation of the Soviet T-72 tank.
• In the movie The Red Violin, the lot number of the Bussotti red violin at the DuVal auction house.
• The year AD 72, 72 BC, 1972, or any other year ending with "72".
• The Rule of 72 in finance.
• Book: 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
• CD: Seventy Two & Sunny by Uncle Kracker
• Jill Clayburgh and LeVar Burton starred in Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993)
• Alternative music band The Delta 72
• New York's Dakota Apartments and Strawberry Fields are by 72nd St. and Central Park West
• The Persian classical santur, a hammered dulcimer, has 72 strings in 24 triple-stringed courses.
• The number of episodes in the original airing of Futurama.
• The Turin Brakes song, also known as Emergency 72
• The number of members in National Senate of Argentina.
• A Civil Air Patrol unit in Laramie, WY, RMR-WY-072.
• There are 72 demons and other spirits in the goetia The Lesser Key of Solomon.
• A form of radio shorthand that roughly translates as meaning "Best wishes"
• A common limit for characters per line in computing
• 72 equal temperament is a tuning used in Byzantine music and by some modern composers.