Number
1,879
1,879 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1879 AD
- Oct 21 Edison successfully tests a long-lasting incandescent light bulb.
- Jan 22 British forces are slaughtered at Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War.
- Mar 14 Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Württemberg.
- Apr 5 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru in the War of the Pacific.
- Dec 28 The Tay Bridge in Scotland collapses in a storm, killing 75 train passengers.
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
-
Wednesday
January 1, 1879
- Ended on
-
Wednesday
December 31, 1879
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 13
Sunday, April 13, 1879
- Decade
-
1870s
1870–1879
- Century
-
19th century
1801–1900
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
147
147 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5639 / 5640 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1296 / 1297 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Rabbit
Sexagenary cycle position 16 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2422 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1257 / 1258 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1871 / 1872 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1801 / 1800 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Meiji 12
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
1,879 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Aliquot sum (sum of proper divisors):
1
First multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
As consecutive integers:
939 + 940
Representations
- In words
- one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine
- Ordinal
- 1879th
- Roman numeral
- MDCCCLXXIX
- Binary
- 11101010111
- Octal
- 3527
- Hexadecimal
- 0x757
- Base64
- B1c=
- One's complement
- 63,656 (16-bit)
In other bases
ternary (3)
2120121
quaternary (4)
131113
quinary (5)
30004
senary (6)
12411
septenary (7)
5323
nonary (9)
2517
undecimal (11)
1459
duodecimal (12)
1107
tridecimal (13)
b17
tetradecimal (14)
983
pentadecimal (15)
854
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αωοθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋭·𝋳
- Chinese
- 一千八百七十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟捌佰柒拾玖
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic
١٨٧٩
Devanagari
१८७९
Bengali
১৮৭৯
Tamil
௧௮௭௯
Thai
๑๘๗๙
Tibetan
༡༨༧༩
Khmer
១៨៧៩
Lao
໑໘໗໙
Burmese
၁၈၇၉
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,879 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,879 = 8
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,879 = 8
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,879 = 6
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,879 = 7
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,879 = 9
Also seen as
Prime neighborhood
Unicode codepoint
ݗ
Arabic Letter Hah With Two Dots Above
U+0757
Other letter (Lo)
UTF-8 encoding: DD 97 (2 bytes).
Hex color
#000757
RGB(0, 7, 87)
IPv4 address
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.87.
- Address
- 0.0.7.87
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.87
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Position in π
The digit sequence 1879 first appears in π at position 6,150 of the decimal expansion (the 6,150ordinal-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.