22 (number)

22 (twenty-two) is the natural number following 21 and preceding 23.

22 is a semiprime,^[1] a Smith number, and an Erdős–Woods number.^[2][3] ${\displaystyle {\frac {22}{7}}=3.14{\color {red}28}\ldots }$ is a commonly used approximation of the irrational number π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

22 can read as "two twos", which is the only fixed point of John Conway's look-and-say function.^[4]

The number 22 appears prominently within sporadic groups. The Mathieu group M₂₂ is one of 26 sporadic finite simple groups, defined as the 3-transitive permutation representation on 22 points.^[5] There are also 22 regular complex apeirohedra.^[6]

• 22 is the atomic number of titanium.
• 22 is the number of proteinogenic amino acids.
• 22 is the number of bones in the human skull: 14 belong to the facial skeleton and 8 to the neurocranium.

• 22 is the designation of the USAF stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor.

• "Twenty Two" is a song by:
  • Karma to Burn (2007)^[7]
  • The Vicar (2013)^[8]
  • Jordan Sweeney (2008)^[9]
  • The Good Life (2000)^[10]
  • Sweet Nectar (1996)^[11]
  • American Generals (2004)^[12]
  • Dan Anderson (2007)^[13]
  • Bad Cash Quartet (2006)^[14]
  • Millencolin (1999)^[15]
  • Enter the Worship Circle (2005)^[16]
  • Blank Dogs (2008)^[17]
  • Al Candello (2002)^[18]
  • Amen Dunes (2018)^[19]
• In Jay-Z's song "22 Two's", he rhymes the words: too, to, and two, 22 times in the first verse.^[20]
• "22 Acacia Avenue" is a song by Iron Maiden on the album The Number of the Beast.^[21]
• Catch 22 is an album by death metal band Hypocrisy.^[22]
• "22" is a song by Lily Allen on the album It's Not Me, It's You.
• 22 Dreams is a song and album by Paul Weller. The album has 22 songs on it.^[23]
• The Norwegian electronica project Ugress uses 22 as a recurring theme. All four albums feature a track with 22 in the title.^[24][25][26]
• "22" is a song by Taylor Swift on her fourth album Red.^[8]
• "The Number 22" is a song by Ashbury Heights on the album The Looking Glass Society.^[27]
• 22, A Million is an album by Bon Iver. The first track of the album is called "22 (OVER SOON)".^[28]
• Cubic 22 was a Belgian techno duo.^[29]
• "22" is a song by the English alternative rock band Deaf Havana on their album Old Souls.^[30]
• "22" is a song by the Irish singer Sarah McTernan.^[31] She represented Ireland with this song at Eurovision 2019.

• Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller's novel, and its 1970 film adaptation gave rise to the expression of logic "catch-22".^[32]
• Revista 22 is a magazine published in Romania.
• There are 22 stars in the Paramount Pictures logo.^[33]
• "Twenty Two" (February 10, 1961) is Season 2–episode 17 (February 10, 1961) of the 1959–1964 TV series The Twilight Zone, in which a hospitalized dancer has nightmares about a sinister nurse inviting her to Room 22, the hospital morgue.
• Traditional Tarot decks have 22 cards with allegorical subjects. These serve as trump cards in the game. The Fool is usually a kind of wild-card among the trumps and unnumbered, so the highest trump is numbered 21. Occult Tarot decks usually have 22 similar cards which are called Major Arcana by fortune-tellers. Occultists have related this number to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the 22 paths in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
• "22" is the number assigned to the unborn soul who serves as a prominent character in the Pixar film Soul.
• In the movie Lost in America, the wife loses all of the couple's savings, the "nest egg," by repeatedly losing at roulette betting on the number 22.

• 22 is the standard port number for the Secure Shell protocol.

• There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.^[34]
• In the Kabbalah, there are 22 paths between the Sephirot.
• There are 22 chapters in the book: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, Book of Revelation.
• 22 is a master number in numerology.^[35]

• In both American football and association football, a total of 22 players (counting both teams) start the game, and this is also the maximum number of players that can be legally involved in play at any given time.
• In men's Australian rules football, each team is allowed a squad of 22 players (18 on the field and 4 interchanges).
• The length of a cricket pitch is 22 yards.
• In rugby union, the "22" is a line in each half of the field which is 22 meters from the respective try line. It has significance in a number of laws particularly relating to kicking the ball away.
• A snooker game (called a "frame") starts with 22 coloured balls at specified locations on the table (15 red balls and 7 others).

• The number of yards in a chain.^[36]

Twenty-two may also refer to:

• 22 is the number of the French department Côtes-d'Armor
• "22" is a common name for the .22 calibre .22 Long Rifle cartridge.
• In French jargon, "22" is used as a phrase to warn of the coming of the police (typically "22, v'là les flics !" (In English: "5-0! Cops!")
• In photography, f/22 is the largest f-stop (and thus smallest aperture) available on most lenses made for single-lens reflex cameras
• In Spanish lottery and bingo, 22 is nicknamed los dos patitos, 'the two little ducks' after its shape.^[37][38]

• Catch 22 (disambiguation)
• List of highways numbered 22
• Synchronicity^[relevant?]

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