'11' ('eleven') is the
natural number following
10 and preceding
12. It is the first number which cannot be represented by a
human counting his or her eight
fingers and two
thumbs additively (although it can be represented in a variety of other ways using human bodily parts, such as counting additively with the twenty
digits including the
toes, using the thumb to count the finger
phalanges of one hand additively up to twelve, or using the fingers in one hand to count up to fifteen
binarily). Eleven is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English, and it is also the largest prime number with a single-morpheme name in this language (although etymologically the word ''eleven'' originated from a Germanic compound
★ ''ainlif'' meaning "one left"
[1]).
In mathematics
Eleven is the 5th smallest
prime number. It is the smallest two-digit prime number in the
decimal base; as well as, of course, in
undecimal (where it is the smallest two-digit number). It is also the smallest three-digit prime in
ternary, and the smallest four-digit prime in
binary, but a single-digit prime in bases larger than ten, such as
duodecimal,
hexadecimal,
vigesimal and
sexagesimal. 11 is the fourth
Sophie Germain prime, the third
safe prime, the fourth
Lucas prime, and the first
repunit prime. Although it is necessary for n to be prime for 2
n-1 to be a
Mersenne prime, the
converse is not true: 2
11 - 1 = 2047 which is 23 × 89. The next prime is
13, with which it comprises a
twin prime. 11 is an
Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form
. Displayed on a calculator, 11 is a
strobogrammatic prime and a
dihedral prime because it reads the same whether the calculator is turned upside down or reflected on a mirror, or both.
Because it has a reciprocal of unique period length among primes, 11 is the second
unique prime. 11 goes into 99 exactly 9 times, so
vulgar fractions with 11 in the
denominator have two
digit repeating sequences in their
decimal expansions. Multiples of eleven by one-digit numbers all have double digits: 00 (=0), 11, 22, 33, 44 . . .
An eleven-sided
polygon is called a
hendecagon or
undecagon.
In both base 6 and base 8, the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits is 11.
In base 10, there is a simple test to determine if an integer is divisible by 11: take every digit of the number located in odd position and add them up, then take the remaining digits and add them up. If the difference between the two sums is a multiple of 11, including 0, then the number is divisible by 11. For instance, if the number is 65,637 then (6 + 6 + 7) - (5 + 3) = 19 - 8 = 11, so 65,637 is divisible by eleven. This technique also works with groups of digits rather than individual digits, so long as the number of digits in each group is odd, although not all groups have to have the same number of digits. For instance, if one uses three digits in each group, one gets from 65,637 the calculation (065) - 637 = -572, which is divisible by eleven.
Another test for divisibility is to separate a number into groups of two consecutive digits (adding a leading zero if there is an odd number of digits), and then add up the numbers so formed; if the result is divisible by eleven, the number is divisible by eleven. For instance, if the number is 65,637, 06 + 56 + 37 = 99, which is divisible by eleven, so 65,637 is divisible by eleven. This also works by adding a trailing zero instead of a leading one: 65 + 63 + 70 = 198, which is divisible by eleven. This also works with larger groups of digits, providing that each group has an even number of digits (not all groups have to have the same number of digits).
An easy way of
multiplying numbers by 11 in base 10 is:
If the number has:
★ 1 digit - Replicate the digit (so 2 x 11 becomes 22).
★ 2 digits - Add the 2 digits together and place the result in the middle (so 47 x 11 becomes 4 (11) 7 or 4 (10+1) 7 or (4+1) 1 7 or 517).
★ 3 digits - Keep the first digit in its place for the result's first digit, add the first and second digits together to form the result's second digit, add the second and third digits together to form the result's third digit, and keep the third digit as the result's fourth digit. For any resulting numbers greater than 9, carry the 1 to the left. Example 1: 123 x 11 becomes 1 (1+2) (2+3) 3 or 1353. Example 2: 481 x 11 becomes 4 (4+8) (8+1) 1 or 4 (10+2) 9 1 or (4+1) 2 9 1 or 5291.
★ 4 or more digits - Follow the same pattern as for 3 digits.
In base 10, 11 is the only integer that is not a
Nivenmorphic number.
In base thirteen and higher bases (such as
hexadecimal), eleven is represented as B, where ten is A. In
duodecimal, however, eleven is sometimes represented as E and ten as T.
Multiplied by , eleven is a
Heegner number.
There are 11 orthogonal curvilinear
coordinate systems (to within a conformal symmetry) in which the 3-variable
Helmholtz equation can be solved using the
separation of variables technique.
See also
11-cell.
List of basic calculations
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In science
★ The
atomic number of
sodium.
★ In chemistry, Group '11' includes the three coinage metals
copper,
silver, and
gold known from antiquity.
★ The number of
spacetime dimensions in
M-theory.
Astronomy
★
Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the
Moon.
★ The approximate periodicity is 11 years in
sunspot cycle.
★
Messier object M11, a
magnitude 7.0
open cluster in the constellation
Scutum, also known as the
Wild Duck Cluster.
★ The
New General Catalogue object NGC 11, a
spiral galaxy in the
constellation Andromeda
★ The
Saros number of the
solar eclipse series which began on
-2511 December 26 and ended on
-1158 March 18. The duration of Saros series 11 was 1352.2 years, and it contained 76 solar eclipses.
★ The Saros
number of the
lunar eclipse series which began on
-2389 June 19 and ended on
-1037 September 8. The duration of Saros series 11 was 1352.2 years, and it contained 76 lunar eclipses.
★ The 11th moon of
Jupiter is
Himalia.
In music
★ The interval of an
octave and a fourth is an eleventh. A complete eleventh chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.
★ The number of thumb keys on a
bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a twelfth thumb key.)
★ The band
Primus has a song "Eleven" on their Album ''
Sailing the Seas of Cheese''.
★ The band
Tool has a song "Jimmy" on their Album ''
Ænima'' which includes many instances of the number eleven.
★
Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven, every other bands' just go to ten, but it doesn't actually amplify the sound any greater.
★ Maria Taylor's Debut solo album is entitled 11:11
★ The All-American Rejects have a song on the CD Move Along that is called 11:11
In sports
There are eleven players on a
soccer team on the field at a time as well as in a
cricket team. Within a school or college, the phrases "the football XI" and "the cricket XI" generally refer to the first (best) team currently playing.
Other teams are often referred to as "the second XI" etc.
Also in
soccer, in the German language (and possibly others, in countries that predominantly use the metric system) a penalty kick is referred to as "Elfmeter" because the penalty spot is approximately 11m (precisely 12 yards) from the goal line.
In cricket, 11 is the number of players from the fielding (or bowling) side on the field of play at any one time.
An
American football team also has eleven players on the field at one time during play.
The car number of
Darrell Waltrip and
Cale Yarborough when they won their
NASCAR Winston Cup Series championships.
Denny Hamlin now drives a car with this number.
In
rugby union the left wing wears the 11 shirt.
Traditionally, a left wing
midfielder in football wears number 11. Less commonly, it is worn by
strikers.
Jonah Lomu wore the number when he played for the
All Blacks as he played left wing (see rugby union above).
11 is also by
quarterbacks,
kickers,
punter and
wide receivers in
American football's
NFL. The only NFL team that has retired the #11 is the New York Giants, in honor of quarterback
Phil Simms.
In the military
★ The number of guns in a gun
salute to U.S.
Army,
Air Force and Marine Corps Brigadier Generals, and to
Navy and
Coast Guard Rear Admirals Lower Half.
★ The
Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) designator given to US Army Infantry (AKA 11 Series, or 11B, 11C, 11D, 11H, 11M, etc)
★ The number of General Orders for Sentries in the
Marine Corps.
★ A page in the Service Record Book of an enlisted Marine for writing down disciplinary actions.
★
World War I ended with an
Armistice on November 11,
1918, which went into effect at 11:00 am-the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of the year.
Armistice Day is still observed on
November 11 of each year, although it is now called
Veteran's Day in the United States and
Remembrance Day in the
Commonwealth of Nations and parts of Europe.
In technology
★ In
Mozilla Firefox,
Opera,
Konqueror for
KDE, and
Internet Explorer for Windows, the
function key F11 key toggles full screen viewing mode. In
Mac OS X, F11 hides all open windows.
★ The windowing system for
Unix computers is known as
X11.
Canada
★ The stylized maple leaf on the
Flag of Canada has eleven points.
★ The
Canadian one-dollar coin is a
hendecagon, an eleven-sided polygon.
★ Clocks depicted on Canadian currency, for example the
Canadian fifty-dollar bill, show 11:00.
★ Eleven denominations of Canadian currency are produced in large quantities.
★ Due to
Canada's federal nature, eleven legally distinct Crowns effectively exist in the country, with the Monarch being represented separately in each province, as well as at the federal level.
In other fields
★ Three films -- ''
Ben-Hur'' (
1959), ''
Titanic'' (
1997), and '' (
2003) -- have each won eleven
Academy Awards, including
Best Picture of their respective years.
★ The number eleven is important in
numerology, as it is the first of the ''Master Numbers''.
★ Being only one hour before 12:00—
midnight—the ''
eleventh hour'' means the last possible moment to take care of something, and often implies a situation of urgent danger or emergency (see
Doomsday clock).
★ In
Astrology,
Aquarius is the 11th
astrological sign of the
Zodiac.
★ In the film ''
This Is Spinal Tap,'' guitarist
Nigel Tufnel proudly shows off an
amplifier with top settings of 11, higher than the traditional
10. The phrase "'
Up to eleven'" or "'These go to eleven'" in
popular culture has come to refer to anything capable of being exploited to its utmost abilities, or to exceed them, such as a
sound volume control. Similarly, the expression "turning it up to eleven" may refer to the act of taking something to an extreme. In 2002 the phrase entered the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with the definition "up to maximum volume"
[2].
★ ''
Ocean's Eleven'' is the name of two American films.
★ In
Basque, ''hamaika'' ("eleven") has the double meaning of "
infinite", probably from ''amaigabe'', "endless", as in ''Hamaika aldiz etortzeko esan dizut!'' ("I told you infinite/eleven times to come!".
★
American Airlines flight 11, a
Boston-
Los Angeles flight which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center after being hijacked by terrorists in
New York, New York on
September 11,
2001.
★ In
tarot, card no. 11 is "Justice".
★ The
number 11 bus is a low-cost way of
sightseeing in
London
★ In the game of
blackjack, an Ace can be counted as either one or eleven, whichever is more advantageous for the player.
★ The number eleven is an important component to the
MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing
Historical years
'11 A.D.',
11 B.C.,
1911,
2011, etc.
See also
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