In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar.
16 is the only number that can be both the perimeter and area of the same square, due to
The sedenions form a 16-dimensional hypercomplex number system.
Sixteen is the base of the hexadecimal number system, which is used extensively in computer science.
A low power of two, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures.
Early civilizations utilized the weighing scale as a means to measure mass, which made splitting resources into equal parts a simple task.
Until the State Council of the People's Republic of China decreed a decimal conversion for currency in 1959,[6] China equivalated 16 liǎng to one jīn.