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Nine is the atomic number of fluorine.

It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number.

Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3.

Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.

A polygon with nine sides is called a nonagon or enneagon.

A group of nine of anything is called an ennead.

In base 10 a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if its digital root is 9. That is, if you multiply nine by any natural number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it is just one digit, you will end up with nine:

2 × 9 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9)
9 × 9 = 81 (8 + 1 = 9)
121 × 9 = 1089 (1 + 0 + 8 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9)
578329 × 9 = 5204961 (5 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 27 (2 + 7 = 9))

Important Buddhist rituals usually involve nine monks.

Ramadan, the month of fasting and prayer, is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.

The car number of the 1988 NASCAR Nextel Cup championship-winning team, when Bill Elliott won the title. He used this number again from 2001 to 2003. Kasey Kahne has driven the 9 car since 2004. (that's for you Becca)

The number of innings in a regulation, non-tied game of baseball.

The San Francisco 49ers are sometimes referred to as the "niners".

Nine Lives Cat Food got its name from the legend that a cat has nine lives.

In classical music the curse of the ninth refers to the superstition that a composer who writes a ninth symphony will die soon. Beethoven, who left his Tenth Symphony unfinished, is regarded by the superstition as the first victim of the curse. Among nineteenth-century Viennese composers, neither Franz Schubert nor Anton Bruckner finished nine symphonies. Gustav Mahler attempted to avoid the curse by naming the work after his Eighth symphony Das Lied von der Erde He then wrote a complete Ninth Symphony, yet his Tenth was unfinished at his death.

In music theory a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or the interval between the first note and the ninth.

Bands with the number nine in their name include Sound Tribe Sector 9, Nine, Stroke 9, Nine Days, Nine Inch Nails, Nine Black Alps and Alice Nine.

The Beatles released a song called "Revolution 9" which appears on The White Album (more properly known as The Beatles); its principal vocal feature is a voice repeating, "Number nine...number nine...number nine..." John Lennon, the primary composer of "Revolution 9", also released a solo recording entitled "#9 Dream. Also, George Harrison released a solo recording and a song both called "Cloud Nine"".

"Love Potion No. 9 originally performed by The Clovers in 1955. Love Potion No. 9 was a 1992 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan.

In the American western folk ballad Oh My Darling, Clementine, Clementine's 'shoes were number nine.'

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated DS9), is a science fiction television series rooted in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek universe.

Nine justices sit on the United States Supreme Court.

The word "K-9" pronounces the same as canine and is used in many U.S. police departments to denote the police dog unit.

Someone dressed "to the nines" is dressed up as much as they can be.

Ninth Avenue is a major avenue in Manhattan.

In Middle Earth, there are nine rings of power given to men, and consequently, nine ringwraiths.

The nine muses in Greek mythology are Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (erotic poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (song), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).



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