In Other Fields
Sixty is:
- In time, the number of seconds in a minute, and the number of minutes in an hour. (a legacy of the Babylonian number system)
- The number of feet in the standard measurement tool to evaluate an automotive launch on a dragstrip. It's the time that it took to travel the first 60 feet (18 m) of the track.
- The number of miles per hour an automobile accelerates to from rest (0-60) as one of the standard measurements of performance
- The total number of years in a Sexagenary cycle
- 60 Minutes, a CBS investigative television show
- Sixty Minute Man was a TV show starring Kenny Baumann
- The number of the European route E60 from Brest, France, to Constanţa, Romania
- Municipal Okrug 60, name of Posadsky Municipal Okrug of Petrogradsky District of St. Petersburg, Russia until April 2009
- A common speed limit, in miles per hour, for freeways in many U.S. states
- A common speed limit, in kilometers per hour, in urban areas in Russia
- In years of marriage, the diamond wedding anniversary
- The maximum number of marbles (game pieces) in Chinese checkers
- The code for international direct dial calls to Malaysia
- The highest obtainable level on World of Warcraft (not including the 3 latest expansions)
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a TV show on NBC (2006-07)
- Gone in 60 Seconds is a movie starring Nicolas Cage
- Miss Sixty is a women's apparel brand
- The total number of cards in the game Rack-O
- The number of the French department Oise
- Alpha 60 is a brain-computer in the movie Alphaville directed by Jean-Luc Godard
- The age for senior citizen in some cultures
- Number in Earth years between Great Conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn
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