In Other Fields
Thirty-one is also:
- The number of musical triads (12 major, 12 minor, 4 diminished, and 3 augmented). (See triad (music).)
- The number of days in the months January, March, May, July, August, October and December
- The code for international direct-dial phone calls to the Netherlands
- A card game (see Thirty-one (game))
- A type of game played on a backgammon board
- The number of flavors of Baskin-Robbins ice cream and the shops are called 31 Ice Cream in Japan
- ISO 31 is the ISO's standard for quantities and units
- In the title of the anime Ulysses 31
- In the title of Nick Hornby's book 31 Songs
- Turkish slang for male masturbation ("otuzbir")
- A women's honorary at The University of Alabama (XXXI)
- The number of the French department Haute-Garonne
- In music, 31-tone equal temperament is a historically significant tuning system (31 equal temperament), first theorized by Christian Huygens and promulgated in the 20th century by Adriaan Fokker
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Bear flowers in Eden never known.
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Bloom in these darkened fields alone.”
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