14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15.

In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen".

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In mathematics

Fourteen is the seventh composite number. It is the lowest even ${\displaystyle n}$ for which the Euler totient ${\displaystyle \varphi (x)=n}$ has no solution, making it the first even nontotient.^[1]

It is specifically, the third distinct semiprime,^[2] being the third of the form ${\displaystyle 2\times q}$, where ${\displaystyle q}$ is a higher prime.

It has an aliquot sum of 8, within an aliquot sequence of two composite numbers (14, 8, 7, 1, 0) in the prime 7-aliquot tree.

14 is the first member of the first cluster of two discrete semiprimes (14, 15) the next such cluster is (21, 22).

14 is also the third Companion Pell number, and the fourth Catalan number.^[3][4]

According to the Shapiro inequality, 14 is the least number ${\displaystyle n}$ such that there exist ${\displaystyle x_{1}}$, ${\displaystyle x_{2}}$, ${\displaystyle x_{3}}$, where:^[5]

${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {x_{i}}{x_{i+1}+x_{i+2}}}<{\frac {n}{2}},}$

with ${\displaystyle x_{n+1}=x_{1}}$ and ${\displaystyle x_{n+2}=x_{2}.}$

There are fourteen polygons that can fill a plane-vertex tiling, where five polygons tile the plane uniformly, and nine others only tile the plane alongside irregular polygons.^[6][7]

Several distinguished polyhedra in three dimensions contain fourteen faces or vertices as facets:

• The cuboctahedron, one of two quasiregular polyhedra, has 14 faces and is the only uniform polyhedron with radial equilateral symmetry.^[8]
• The rhombic dodecahedron, dual to the cuboctahedron, contains 14 vertices and is the only Catalan solid that can tessellate space.^[9]
• The truncated octahedron contains 14 faces, is the permutohedron of order four, and the only Archimedean solid to tessellate space.
• The dodecagonal prism, which is the largest prism that can tessellate space alongside other uniform prisms, has 14 faces.
• The Szilassi polyhedron and its dual, the Császár polyhedron, are the simplest toroidal polyhedra; they have 14 vertices and 14 triangular faces, respectively.^[10][11]
• Steffen's polyhedron, the simplest flexible polyhedron without self-crossings, has 14 triangular faces.^[12]

A regular tetrahedron cell, the simplest uniform polyhedron and Platonic solid, is made up of a total of 14 elements: 4 edges, 6 vertices, and 4 faces.

• Szilassi's polyhedron and the tetrahedron are the only two known polyhedra where each face shares an edge with each other face, while Császár's polyhedron and the tetrahedron are the only two known polyhedra with a continuous manifold boundary that do not contain any diagonals.
• Two tetrahedra that are joined by a common edge whose four adjacent and opposite faces are replaced with two specific seven-faced crinkles will create a new flexible polyhedron, with a total of 14 possible clashes where faces can meet.^{[13]pp.10-11,14} This is the second simplest known triangular flexible polyhedron, after Steffen's polyhedron.^[13]p.16 If three tetrahedra are joined at two separate opposing edges and made into a single flexible polyhedron, called a 2-dof flexible polyhedron, each hinge will only have a total range of motion of 14 degrees.^[13]p.139

14 is also the root (non-unitary) trivial stella octangula number, where two self-dual tetrahedra are represented through figurate numbers, while also being the first non-trivial square pyramidal number (after 5);^[14][15] the simplest of the ninety-two Johnson solids is the square pyramid ${\displaystyle J_{1}.}$^{[lower-alpha 1]}

There are a total of fourteen semi-regular polyhedra, when the pseudorhombicuboctahedron is included as a non-vertex transitive Archimedean solid (a lower class of polyhedra that follow the five Platonic solids).^{[16][17][lower-alpha 2]}

There are fourteen possible Bravais lattices that fill three-dimensional space.^[18]

The fundamental domain of the Klein quartic is a regular hyperbolic 14-sided tetradecagon, with an area of ${\displaystyle 8\pi }$.

The Klein quartic is a compact Riemann surface of genus 3 that has the largest possible automorphism group order of its kind (of order 168) whose fundamental domain is a regular hyperbolic 14-sided tetradecagon, with an area of ${\displaystyle 8\pi }$ by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

The exceptional Lie algebra G₂ is the simplest of five such algebras, with a minimal faithful representation in fourteen dimensions. It is the automorphism group of the octonions ${\displaystyle \mathbb {O} }$, and holds a compact form homeomorphic to the zero divisors with entries of unit norm in the sedenions, ${\displaystyle \mathbb {S} }$.^[19][20]

A set of real numbers to which it is applied closure and complement operations in any possible sequence generates 14 distinct sets.^[21] This holds even if the reals are replaced by a more general topological space; see Kuratowski's closure-complement problem.

The floor of the imaginary part of the first non-trivial zero in the Riemann zeta function is ${\displaystyle 14}$,^[22] in equivalence with its nearest integer value,^[23] from an approximation of ${\displaystyle 14.1347251417\ldots }$^[24][25]

In science

In religion and mythology

Age 14

• 14 is the earliest age that the emancipation of minors can occur in the U.S.
• Minimum age a person can purchase, rent, or buy tickets to a 14A rated movie in Canada without an adult. Ratings are provincial, so ratings may vary. A movie can be 14A in one or some provinces and PG in other provinces. A movie can also be rated 14A in one or some provinces and 18A in other provinces. Quebec has a different rating system for films.
• Youngest age in Canada a person can watch a 14+ rated show without consent from a legal guardian.
• The U.S. TV Parental Guidelines has a rating called "TV-14" which strongly recommends parental guidance for children under the age of fourteen watching the program.
• Minimum age at which one can view, rent, purchase, or buy tickets to an 18A rated movie with an accompanying adult in the Canadian provinces of the Maritimes and Manitoba.
• Minimum age at which one can work in many U.S. states. Parental consent may be required, depending on the state.
• Minimum age at which one can drive a vehicle in the U.S. with a driver's license (with the supervision of an adult over 18 years of age, and with a valid, unmarked driver's license, and at least 365 days of experience driving an actual automobile)
• The minimum age limit to drive a 50cc motorbike in Italy.
• The most common age of criminal responsibility in Europe.^[28]
• In some countries, it is the age of sexual consent.

In sports

• In American football, the National Football League playoffs have involved 14 teams since the 2020 season.
• In golf, a player can have no more than 14 clubs in the bag.
• In rugby union, the starting right wing wears the 14 shirt
• In pool:
  • The pool ball 14 is the 14th in pool and its color is green.

In white supremacy

White supremacists use the number 14 as a reference to the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane, a prominent white supremacist.^[29]

This number is often associated with the number 88 (e.g. 14/88, 14-88, or 1488) that is an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler.^[30]

In other fields

Fourteen is:

• The number of days in a fortnight.
• The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave citizenship to those of African descent, in a post-Civil War (Reconstruction) measure aimed at restoring the rights of slaves.
• In traditional British units of weight, the number of pounds in a stone.
• The number of points outlined by President Woodrow Wilson for reconstructing a new Europe following World War I, see Fourteen Points.
• The number of Enigma Variations composed by Edward Elgar.
• The number of favored rows in the Roman theater for members of the equestrian order according to the lex Roscia theatralis issued in 67 BC.
• The section that one goes to when one dies in the GrailQuest books.
• The number of legs on a woodlouse, as well as on Hallucigenia.
• A common designation for the thirteenth floor in many buildings for superstitious reasons.
• There are 14 British Overseas Territories of the United Kingdom.
• The number of lines in a sonnet.^[31]
• The Number 14 airship by Alberto Santos Dumont was used to test the aerodynamics of his 14-bis airplane.
• The number of the French department Calvados.
• XIV is a storage server manufactured by IBM. It goes by name of "XIV" and is pronounced as the separate letters "X", "I", "V".
• The Piano Sonata No. 14, also known as Moonlight Sonata, is one of the most famous piano sonatas composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.
• A symbol of infinity in "The House of Asterion" (Spanish: "La casa de Asterión", 1947) by Jorge Luis Borges,^[32] itself a reference to the 14 sacrificial victims of the Minotaur.
• Nuestra Familia is a gang that uses "XIV" as their symbol because the 14th letter of the Spanish alphabet is "N".
• The room number on the top floor of the hospital where Oliver Hardy is visited by Stan Laurel in the movie County Hospital (1932).
• In the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, the Fourteen Flames are a chain of volcanoes that stretch across the Valyrian peninsula.
• There are 14 books in the main sequence of the epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
• The number of years Edmond Dantes spent imprisoned in the Chateau d'If in Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
• Unlike most other mammal species which commonly have 20 digits (toes), 14 is the number of digits of the guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy (/ˈkeɪvi/).

See also

• List of highways numbered 14

Notes

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