19 is the 8th prime number, the seventh Mersenne prime exponent, and the second base-10 repunit prime exponent. 19 is the maximum number of fourth powers needed to sum up to any natural number, and in the context of Waring's problem, 19 is the fourth value of g. In addition, 19 is a Heegner number and a centered hexagonal number. 19 is also a centered triangular number, being the smallest such number that is also prime. Moreover, there exists only one nontrivial normal magic hexagon: the one composed of 19 cells.
The number of angels guarding Hell according to the Qur'an: "Over it are nineteen", after which the Qur'an describes this number as being "a trial for those who disbelieve", a sign for people of the scripture to be "convinced" and that believers "will increase in faith" due to it...
The Number of Verse and Sura together in the Qur'an which announces Jesus son of Maryam's birth.
A group called United Submitter International claim the Quran has mathematical structure based on the number 19. The gematrical value of WAHD = 6+1+8+4=19, Wahd means 'One' to the first verse, known as Bas-malah, consists of 19 Arabic letters or the Quran consists of 114 su-ras etc
"19" is a 1985 song by Paul Hardcastle, including sampled soundbites taken from a documentary about the Vietnam War in which 19 is claimed to have been the average age of United States soldiers killed in the conflict. The song was parodied by British satirist Rory Bremner under the pseudonym 'The Commentators,' as N-n-nineteen, Not Out, the title referring to the batting average of David Gower, the England cricket captain, during his side's risible performance against the West Indies in 1984 when they lost 5–0.
"I Was Only Nineteen" by the Australian group Redgum reached number one on the Australian charts in 1983. In 2005 a hip hop version of the song was produced by The Herd.
19 is the name of Adele's 2008 debut album, so named since she was 19 years old at the time.
"Hey Nineteen" is a song by American jazz rock band Steely Dan, on the 1980 album Gaucho.
Nineteen has been used as an alternative to twelve for a division of the octave into equal parts. This idea goes back to Salinas in the sixteenth century, and is interesting in part because it gives a system of meantone tuning, being close to 1/3 comma meantone. See 19 equal temperament.
Some organs use the 19th harmonic to approximate a minor third.
Literature
Stephen King's eight-book epic The Dark Tower saga employs the number 19 in books ', ', ', ', and The Wind Through the Keyhole as a mysterious and important number. They refer to the "ka-tet of 19", "Directive Nineteen," many names add up to 19, 19 seems to permeate every aspect of Roland and his traveler's lives. In addition, the number ends up being a powerful key.
In Jodi Picoult's bestselling book Nineteen Minutes, the number 19 is referenced multiple times. It is most commonly referenced when referring to the main subject of the book, the school shooting rampage that took place over a span of 19 minutes.
The novel "S." by Doug Dorst uses 19 and its multiples throughout. S is the 19th letter of the alphabet.
Games
The game of Go is played on a grid of 19×19 lines.
Though the maximum score for a cribbage hand is 29, there is no combination of cards that adds up to 19 points. Many cribbage players, therefore, jokingly refer to a zero-point hand as "a 19 hand."
In Ecuadorian card game "40", when counting the number of cards gathered in a hand, the limit is 19, after which the count starts at 6 and represents the points achieved during that hand.
This is the minimum age that is legal to buy tobacco products in the states Alabama, Alaska, Utah and several counties in New York including Nassau, and Onondaga.
This is the minimum age at which one can drink and buy alcohol in Canada except for the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec where the drinking and purchase age of alcohol is 18.
In sports
In golf, the '19th hole' is the clubhouse bar and in match play, if there is a tie after 18 holes, an extra hole is played. In miniature golf it is an extra hole on which the winner earns an instant prize.
