6
= 2 x 3
= 1 + 2 + 3 A triangular number.
= 1 x 2 x 3 Factorial 3 or 3!
The factors of 6 (1, 2 and 3) add up to six. This makes 6 the first perfect number.
1, 2 and 3 make 6 whether you add them together or multiply them.
Sex- and hex- mean six. So there are six sides on a hexagon and six musicians in a sextet. Sextuplets are six children born together and a hexapod is something with six feet, like an insect.
A cube has six faces and another name for a cube is a hexahedron. Six is the highest number on a normal die. An octahedron has six corners or vertices and a tetrahedron has six edges.
Six-legged arthropods include insects like flies, moths, ants, beetles and wasps.
There are six feet in a fathom. A fathom is a unit of length used mainly by sailors. It equals 1.8288 metres.
Volley ball and ice hockey are both played with teams of 6 players.
King Henry VIII had six wives and there are six murder suspects in a game of Cluedo.
Hexagonal structures are found in many living things such as the cells of a honey comb. Carbon, the element that is present in all living matter, has the atomic number six.
`Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast’ exclaimed the White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass.