1,920
1,920 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
1,920 (one thousand nine hundred twenty) is an even 4-digit number. It is a composite number with 32 divisors, and factors as 2⁷ × 3 × 5. Its proper divisors sum to 4,200, more than the number itself, making it an abundant number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is MCMXX and in binary, 11110000000.
Interestingness
Notable events — 1920 AD
- Jan 16 Prohibition takes effect in the United States.
- Jan 16 The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- Aug 18 The 19th Amendment is ratified, giving American women the right to vote.
- Nov 2 KDKA in Pittsburgh begins the first commercial radio broadcasts.
- Nov 2 Warren G. Harding wins the US presidential election in a landslide.
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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, 1920
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 1920
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 4
Sunday, April 4, 1920
- Decade
-
1920s
1920–1929
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
106
106 years before 2026.
- US presidential election
-
Yes
US holds a presidential election in years divisible by 4 starting from 1788.
- Summer Olympics
- Yes
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5680 / 5681 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1338 / 1339 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
-
2463 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1298 / 1299 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1912 / 1913 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1842 / 1841 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Taishō 9
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 7 × 3 × 5
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√1,920 = [43; (1, 4, 2, 21, 2, 4, 1, 86)]
Period length 8 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred twenty
- Ordinal
- 1920th
- Roman numeral
- MCMXX
- Binary
- 11110000000
- Octal
- 3600
- Hexadecimal
- 0x780
- Base64
- B4A=
- One's complement
- 63,615 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 1.92 × 10³
- As a duration
- 1,920 s = 32 minutes
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹 ·
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡκʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋰·𝋠
- Chinese
- 一千九百二十
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰貳拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,920 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,920 = 7
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,920 = 2
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,920 = 3
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,920 = 1
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,920 = 5
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 1920, here are decompositions:
- 7 + 1913 = 1920
- 13 + 1907 = 1920
- 19 + 1901 = 1920
- 31 + 1889 = 1920
- 41 + 1879 = 1920
- 43 + 1877 = 1920
- 47 + 1873 = 1920
- 53 + 1867 = 1920
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: DE 80 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.128.
- Address
- 0.0.7.128
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.128
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 1,920 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): B6 (1975.5 Hz, -49¢ — about midway to A♯6)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): B6 (1933.1 Hz, -12¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): C7 (1974.1 Hz, -48¢ — about midway to B6)
The digit sequence 1920 first appears in π at position 6,751 of the decimal expansion (the 6,751ordinal-suffix:st 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°.