page_title: 59 (number)
section_title: In other fields
hierarchical_section_title: 59 (number) / In other fields
caption_attribution_description: A Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator showing one card in the holder on the front of the calculator and another being inserted into the card reader in the side.
context_page_description: 59 is the natural number following 58 and preceding 60.
context_section_description: Fifty-nine is:
  The number corresponding to the last minute in a given hour, and the last second in a given minute
  The number of beads on a Roman Catholic rosary (Dominican).
  Approximately the number of days in two lunar months
  The Queensboro Bridge in New York City is also known as the 59th Street Bridge
  The number on a button commonly worn by feminist activists in the 1970s; this was based on the claim that a woman earned 59 cents to an equally qualified man's dollar
  Art Project 59's "59 Seconds Video Festival" at 59 Franklin Street, showed 59 videos to 59 different audiences, each 59 seconds long and incorporating the number 59
  In amateur radio, a perfect signal report
  Five Nine, an amateur radio magazine published in Japan
  The number of the French department Nord
  The "59-minute rule" is an informal rule in business, whereby (usually near a holiday) employees may be allowed to leave work early, often to beat heavy holiday traffic (the 59 minutes coming from the rule that leaving one full hour early requires the use of leave, whereas leaving 59 minutes early would not)
caption: The TI-59 was a programmable calculator
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