Tuesday 13 May 2014

who knows twenty-nine?


Hezkiyahu reigned for 29 years as king of Judah.
as did Amaziah b. Yoash.

&

29 is the 10th prime number
and the sum of 2² + 3² + 4²
Saturn takes 29 years to orbit the sun
no. of days in February in a leap year
no. of letters in the Turkish, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian alphabets
Chattanaga Choo Choo departed from track 29
and the song, $29 by Tom Waits

(it is now the 5th week of the omer, hence the pentagram within the icosikaienneagon (which at this size looks more like a circle, but is a 29 sided polygon) As these drawings are so small, I decided not to draw a lines that link all the points to each other, but chose the ones that form pentagrams. and then the beginnings of a smaller inner icosikaienneagon. because it looked nice and I wanted to....)

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