24 (number)

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24 (twenty-four) is the natural number following 23 and preceding 25. It is equal to two dozen and one sixth of a gross.

In mathematics

24 is an even composite number, a highly composite number, an abundant number, a practical number, and a congruent number. 24 is also part of the only nontrivial solution pair to the cannonball problem, and the kissing number in 4-dimensional space. An icositetragon is a regular polygon with 24 sides. A tesseract has 24 two-dimensional square faces.

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