Number
1,959
1,959 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1959 AD
- Jan 1 Fidel Castro's revolution overthrows Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
- Jan 3 Alaska becomes the 49th US state.
- Mar 10 Tibetans rise against Chinese rule; the Dalai Lama flees to India later that month.
- Apr 25 The St. Lawrence Seaway opens, linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.
- Aug 21 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
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
-
53
Long year: contains 53 ISO weeks.
- Started on
-
Thursday
January 1, 1959
- Ended on
-
Thursday
December 31, 1959
- Friday the 13ths
-
3
3 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
March 29
Sunday, March 29, 1959
- Decade
-
1950s
1950–1959
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
67
67 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5719 / 5720 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1378 / 1379 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Pig
Sexagenary cycle position 36 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2502 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1337 / 1338 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1951 / 1952 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1881 / 1880 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Shōwa 34
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
- Parity
- Odd
- Digit count
- 4
- Digit sum
- 24
- Digit product
- 405
- Digital root
- 6
- Palindrome
- No
- Bit width
- 11 bits
- Reversed
- 9,591
- Recamán's sequence
- a(3,833) = 1,959
- Square (n²)
- 3,837,681
- Cube (n³)
- 7,518,017,079
- Divisor count
- 4
- σ(n) — sum of divisors
- 2,616
- φ(n) — Euler's totient
- 1,304
- Sum of prime factors
- 656
Primality
Prime factorization: 3 × 653
Divisors & multiples
Aliquot sum (sum of proper divisors):
657
First multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
As consecutive integers:
979 + 980
652 + 653 + 654
324 + 325 + 326 + 327 + 328 + 329
Aliquot sequence:
1,959 → 657 → 305 → 67 → 1 → 0
— terminates at zero
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred fifty-nine
- Ordinal
- 1959th
- Roman numeral
- MCMLIX
- Binary
- 11110100111
- Octal
- 3647
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7A7
- Base64
- B6c=
- One's complement
- 63,576 (16-bit)
In other bases
ternary (3)
2200120
quaternary (4)
132213
quinary (5)
30314
senary (6)
13023
septenary (7)
5466
nonary (9)
2616
undecimal (11)
1521
duodecimal (12)
1173
tridecimal (13)
b79
tetradecimal (14)
9dd
pentadecimal (15)
8a9
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡνθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋱·𝋳
- Chinese
- 一千九百五十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰伍拾玖
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic
١٩٥٩
Devanagari
१९५९
Bengali
১৯৫৯
Tamil
௧௯௫௯
Thai
๑๙๕๙
Tibetan
༡༩༥༩
Khmer
១៩៥៩
Lao
໑໙໕໙
Burmese
၁၉၅၉
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,959 = 5
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,959 = 0
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,959 = 9
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,959 = 5
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,959 = 0
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,959 = 3
Also seen as
Unicode codepoint
ާ
Thaana Aabaafili
U+07A7
Non-spacing mark (Mn)
UTF-8 encoding: DE A7 (2 bytes).
Hex color
#0007A7
RGB(0, 7, 167)
IPv4 address
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.167.
- Address
- 0.0.7.167
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.167
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Position in π
The digit sequence 1959 first appears in π at position 985 of the decimal expansion (the 985ordinal-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.