One ticket equals one tube ride, which is great if you're going one place (and you know how to get there). Otherwise, buy a one or several day London tube passes or a credit card-sized Oyster card, which gives you a set amount of rides for at least a week, works on central London buses and segments of National Rail trains, and is hard to lose. My one-week Oyster pass was about 22 pounds in March 2006.
Small LED signs on station turnstiles are green if you can go through and red if you can't; tube workers stand patiently by and point that out, and they'll help if you can't get through.
When you do pass through the turnstiles, you'll first feed your ticket into a slot or pass your Oyster card across a pad; the ticket pops back out -- hang on to it because you'll need to perform the procedure in reverse to get out of the train station at your destination.
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