128
128 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
128 (one hundred twenty-eight) is an even 3-digit number. It is a composite number with 8 divisors, and factors as 2⁷. It is a power of two (2⁷). Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is CXXVIII and in binary, 10000000.
Interestingness
Historical context — 128 AD
Calendar year
Year 128 (CXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 128 BC
Calendar year
Year 128 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
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Year facts
- Year type
-
Leap year
Divisible by 4 and not by 100; February has 29 days.
- Days in year
- 366
- ISO weeks
-
53
Long year: contains 53 ISO weeks.
- Started on
-
Thursday
January 1, 128
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 128
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
120s
120–129
- Century
-
2nd century
101–200
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,898
1898 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
3888 / 3889 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Dragon
Sexagenary cycle position 5 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
671 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
120 / 121 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
50 / 49 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 7
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√128 = [11; (3, 5, 3, 22)]
Period length 4 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- one hundred twenty-eight
- Ordinal
- 128th
- Roman numeral
- CXXVIII
- Binary
- 10000000
- Octal
- 200
- Hexadecimal
- 0x80
- Base64
- gA==
- One's complement
- 127 (8-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 1.28 × 10²
- As a duration
- 128 s = 2 minutes, 8 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ρκηʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋦·𝋨
- Chinese
- 一百二十八
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹佰貳拾捌
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 128 = 6
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 128 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 128 = 8
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 128 = 0
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 128 = 2
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 128 = 0
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 128, here are decompositions:
- 19 + 109 = 128
- 31 + 97 = 128
- 61 + 67 = 128
UTF-8 encoding: C2 80 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.128.
- Address
- 0.0.0.128
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.128
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 128 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): C3 (130.8 Hz, -38¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): C3 (128 Hz, exact)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): C♯3 (130.7 Hz, -36¢)
Related reading
- Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.