1,440
1,440 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
1,440 (one thousand four hundred forty) is an even 4-digit number. It is a composite number with 36 divisors, and factors as 2⁵ × 3² × 5. Its proper divisors sum to 3,474, more than the number itself, making it an abundant number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is MCDXL and in binary, 10110100000.
Interestingness
Notable events — 1440 AD
- Undated Johannes Gutenberg begins developing his movable-type printing press.
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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
-
Wednesday
January 1, 1440
- Ended on
-
Thursday
December 31, 1440
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
1440s
1440–1449
- Century
-
15th century
1401–1500
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
586
586 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5200 / 5201 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
843 / 844 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Monkey
Sexagenary cycle position 57 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
1983 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
818 / 819 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1432 / 1433 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1362 / 1361 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 5 × 3 2 × 5
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√1,440 = [37; (1, 17, 1, 74)]
Period length 4 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- one thousand four hundred forty
- Ordinal
- 1440th
- Roman numeral
- MCDXL
- Binary
- 10110100000
- Octal
- 2640
- Hexadecimal
- 0x5A0
- Base64
- BaA=
- One's complement
- 64,095 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 1.44 × 10³
- As a duration
- 1,440 s = 24 minutes
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 ·
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αυμʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋣·𝋬·𝋠
- Chinese
- 一千四百四十
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟肆佰肆拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,440 = 3
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,440 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,440 = 9
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,440 = 6
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,440 = 6
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,440 = 5
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 1440, here are decompositions:
- 7 + 1433 = 1440
- 11 + 1429 = 1440
- 13 + 1427 = 1440
- 17 + 1423 = 1440
- 31 + 1409 = 1440
- 41 + 1399 = 1440
- 59 + 1381 = 1440
- 67 + 1373 = 1440
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: D6 A0 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.5.160.
- Address
- 0.0.5.160
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.5.160
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 1,440 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): F♯6 (1480 Hz, -47¢ — about midway to F6)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): F♯6 (1448.2 Hz, -10¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G6 (1478.9 Hz, -46¢ — about midway to F♯6)
The digit sequence 1440 first appears in π at position 23,902 of the decimal expansion (the 23,902ordinal-suffix:nd digit after the integer 3).
Search range: the first 1,000,000 fractional digits of π. Any 6-digit-or-shorter string is virtually guaranteed to appear in there — the more interesting signal is the position.
Related reading
- Babylonian numerals — The base-60 cuneiform system that gave us 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and 360°.