1,566
1,566 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
1,566 (one thousand five hundred sixty-six) is an even 4-digit number. It is a composite number with 16 divisors, and factors as 2 × 3³ × 29. Its proper divisors sum to 2,034, more than the number itself, making it an abundant number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is MDLXVI and in binary, 11000011110.
Interestingness
Notable events — 1566 AD
- Aug 19 The Beeldenstorm Calvinist iconoclasm spreads across the Low Countries.
- Mar 9 David Rizzio is murdered in front of Mary Queen of Scots.
- Sep 5 Suleiman the Magnificent dies during the siege of Szigetvár.
Events compiled from Wikipedia ↗ · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
Year facts
- Year type
-
Common year
Standard 365-day year; not divisible by 4 (or divisible by 100 but not 400).
- Days in year
- 365
- ISO weeks
- 52
- Started on
-
Saturday
January 1, 1566
- Ended on
-
Saturday
December 31, 1566
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
1560s
1560–1569
- Century
-
16th century
1501–1600
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
460
460 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5326 / 5327 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
973 / 974 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Fire zodiac:Tiger
Sexagenary cycle position 3 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2109 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
944 / 945 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1558 / 1559 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1488 / 1487 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
- Parity
- Even
- Digit count
- 4
- Digit sum
- 18
- Digit product
- 180
- Digital root
- 9
- Palindrome
- No
- Bit width
- 11 bits
- Reversed
- 6,651
- Recamán's sequence
- a(1,428) = 1,566
- Square (n²)
- 2,452,356
- Cube (n³)
- 3,840,389,496
- Divisor count
- 16
- σ(n) — sum of divisors
- 3,600
- φ(n) — Euler's totient
- 504
- Sum of prime factors
- 40
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 × 3 3 × 29
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√1,566 = [39; (1, 1, 2, 1, 15, 8, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 8, 15, 1, 2, 1, 1, 78)]
Period length 22 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- one thousand five hundred sixty-six
- Ordinal
- 1566th
- Roman numeral
- MDLXVI
- Binary
- 11000011110
- Octal
- 3036
- Hexadecimal
- 0x61E
- Base64
- Bh4=
- One's complement
- 63,969 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 1.566 × 10³
- As a duration
- 1,566 s = 26 minutes, 6 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αφξϛʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋣·𝋲·𝋦
- Chinese
- 一千五百六十六
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟伍佰陸拾陸
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,566 = 2
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,566 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,566 = 2
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,566 = 6
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,566 = 0
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,566 = 5
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 1566, here are decompositions:
- 7 + 1559 = 1566
- 13 + 1553 = 1566
- 17 + 1549 = 1566
- 23 + 1543 = 1566
- 43 + 1523 = 1566
- 67 + 1499 = 1566
- 73 + 1493 = 1566
- 79 + 1487 = 1566
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: D8 9E (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.6.30.
- Address
- 0.0.6.30
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.6.30
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 1,566 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): G6 (1568 Hz, -2¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): G6 (1534.3 Hz, +35¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G♯6 (1566.8 Hz, -1¢)
The digit sequence 1566 first appears in π at position 4,828 of the decimal expansion (the 4,828ordinal-suffix:th 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°.