80 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

Eighty is also:

  • used in the classic book title Around the World in Eighty Days
  • the length of the Eighty Years' War or Dutch revolt (1568–1648)
  • the standard TCP/IP port number for HTTP connections
  • the 80A, 80B and 80C photographic filters correct for excessive redness under tungsten lighting
  • The year AD 80, 80 BC, or 1980
  • Eighty shilling ale
  • I-80 is an interstate highway going from New York to San Francisco
  • The older four-pin-base version of the 5Y3GT rectifier tube
  • A common limit for the characters per line, in computing, derived from the number of columns in IBM cards
  • American band Green Day has a song called "80"
  • A fictional alien superhero named Ultraman 80

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Famous quotes containing the word fields:

    “Mantled in grey, the dusk steals slowly in,
    Crossing the dead, dull fields with footsteps cold.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)