Jon 3:5 The people of Nineveh believed God's message. So they decided that everyone should fast, and all the people, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth to show that they had repented.
Jon 3:6 When the king of Nineveh heard about it, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat down in ashes. - GNB
It means the people of Nineveh when they heard that God was going to punish them repented, they showed this by fasting, wearing clothes made of sack cloth and they put ashes on their heads.
5 ¶ So the people of bNineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
After Jonah had given his message to the people in the city they repented of their wrongdoing. To show this they put on sackcloth and covered themselves in ashed as a sign of having repented of their evil ways. Sack cloth was made of a course material.
The chapter LVI corresponds to Chapter 56.
56 starting with Aaron's rod changing and ending with Jonah in the whales belly
According to an online Bible concordance the word purpose is found in 56 verses in the King James Bible.
Mary the mother of Jesus: Matthew chapters 1-2, Matthew chapter 12 verses 46-50, Matthew chapter 13 verses 54-56, Mark chapter 3 verses 31-35, Mark chapter 6 verse 3, Luke chapters 1-2, Luke chapter 8 verses 19-21, John chapter 19 verses 1-27. Mary Magdalene: Matthew chapter 27 verses 56-61, Matthew chapter 28 verses 1-15, Mark chapter 15 verses 40-47, Mark chapter 16 verses 1-11, Luke 8 chapters 1-3, Luke chapter 24 verses 1-11, John chapter 19 verse 25, John chapter 20 verses 1-18. Mary sister of Martha: Luke chapter 10 verses 38-42, John chapter 11 entire chapter.
If you mean half of 56 then it is 28
Next month on the 18, it will be a double post.
The geometric mean of 7 and 56 is 19.7989898732
(76+56)/2
If you mean 5/8 of 56 then it is 35
If you mean 56/112 then it is 1/2
Mean = 61.857142... Median = 57 Mode = 56 Range = 27
If you mean 3/7 of 56 then it is 24