27 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

Twenty-seven is also:

• A-27 - American attack aircraft
• The 27th U.S.A state - Florida
• The total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants)
• The total number of letters in the Spanish alphabet (5 vowels and 22 consonants)
• The current number of Amendments to the United States Constitution
• The code for international direct-dial phone calls to South Africa
• The designation (I-27) of a US interstate highway in Texas
• The designation (US 27) of a United States national highway from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Miami, Florida
• The name of a cigarette, Marlboro Blend No. 27
• Alternate name for The Hunt, a book by William Diehl
• The number of the French department Eure
• The number of countries in the European Union (as of August 2011)
• Abbé Faria's prisoner number in the book The Count of Monte Cristo
• The number of species Captain Jean-Luc Picard has made contact with in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• One of the anthropomorphic math symbols Lisa Simpson imagines talking to her in The Simpsons episode "Girls Just Want to Have Sums", which, instead of offering the expected pun-based aphorism, rather unhelpfully only says "twenty seven"
• In Steven King's novel "It", It returns every 27 years to Derry.
• 27 is the number of bones in the human hand.
• 27 is the number of MotoGP worldchampion Casey Stoner.