AP Automation

Today, another post from Richard Manson from CloudTrade Let’s start at the beginning. What do we know about 26? Wikipedia - the font of all knowledge - tells me that 26 is ‘the natural number following 25 and preceding 27’. OK, I can go with this. That’s pretty accurate I guess. But I know it is more than that. So what else? Apparently a shape with 26 faces is a rhombicuboctahedron. But, hey, my 2 year old could have told me that... (Note to self, remember that for the next pub quiz). It is the atomic number for Iron (also useful for the pub quiz). But moving away from impressive ways to win £50 on a Thursday night... What else do we know? The 26th letter and the last letter of the English alphabet is Z. It is the length of a marathon (26 miles and 385 yards to be exact). The human foot and ankle has 26 bones. 26 is the total number of cases on the US version of Deal or No Deal. ....OK, I feel we are now slipping back to the realms of the pub quiz. So we can see there are many interesting instances of the number 26. Yet the most important (in our eyes at least!) seems to be missing. And without wishing to question the accuracy of Wikipedia, I feel it my duty to reveal the most important, yet missing, reference.