three-score years
60 years
TRANSLATION
a score = 20, zwanzig
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The days of our years are threescore years and ten,
Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalm 90:10
The Holy Bible
Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalm 90:10
The Holy Bible
Did you
know?
a score = the amount 20
See the fascinating things Wikipedia has to say about the number 20 (where would we be without Google and Wikipedia?)
* 20 is the total number of digits on the human body, which makes it a possible candidate for a numeral system.
* Twenty is used as a radix for vigesimal number systems. In the old UK currency system, there were twenty shillings in a pound.
* The atomic number of calcium.
* The third Magic number (physics).
* The number of proteinogenic amino acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
* In a game of chess both players have 20 first moves from which to choose.
* The number 20 is used as an index in measuring visual acuity. 20/20 indicates normal vision at 20 feet, although it is commonly used to mean "perfect vision".
* When someone is able to see only after an event how things turned out, that person is often said to have had "20/20 hindsight".
* Twenty questions is a popular party game.
* Twenty is the age of majority in Japanese tradition. Someone who is exactly twenty years old is described as hatachi.
* The "Twenty Year Curse" refers to the pattern of the president of the UnitedStates elected every twenty years starting with 1840 to die in office. This pattern failed when Reagan survived his time in office.
* The code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt.
* Twenty, a village in Lincolnshire
* In the United States Constitution, $20 is the threshold value of civil disputes above which the right to trial by jury is preserved.
* The denomination of U.S. dollar with Andrew Jackson's portrait.
* Twenty, a 1997 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/20-number
See the fascinating things Wikipedia has to say about the number 20 (where would we be without Google and Wikipedia?)
* 20 is the total number of digits on the human body, which makes it a possible candidate for a numeral system.
* Twenty is used as a radix for vigesimal number systems. In the old UK currency system, there were twenty shillings in a pound.
* The atomic number of calcium.
* The third Magic number (physics).
* The number of proteinogenic amino acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
* In a game of chess both players have 20 first moves from which to choose.
* The number 20 is used as an index in measuring visual acuity. 20/20 indicates normal vision at 20 feet, although it is commonly used to mean "perfect vision".
* When someone is able to see only after an event how things turned out, that person is often said to have had "20/20 hindsight".
* Twenty questions is a popular party game.
* Twenty is the age of majority in Japanese tradition. Someone who is exactly twenty years old is described as hatachi.
* The "Twenty Year Curse" refers to the pattern of the president of the UnitedStates elected every twenty years starting with 1840 to die in office. This pattern failed when Reagan survived his time in office.
* The code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt.
* Twenty, a village in Lincolnshire
* In the United States Constitution, $20 is the threshold value of civil disputes above which the right to trial by jury is preserved.
* The denomination of U.S. dollar with Andrew Jackson's portrait.
* Twenty, a 1997 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/20-number
