1,960
1,960 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1960 AD
- Feb 1 Four Black students stage a sit-in at a Greensboro lunch counter, accelerating the civil-rights movement.
- Feb 18 The Winter Olympics open at Squaw Valley, California.
- Mar 21 South African police kill 69 unarmed protesters at Sharpeville.
- May 1 A US U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union; pilot Gary Powers is captured.
- Nov 8 John F. Kennedy is elected US president, defeating Richard Nixon.
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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
- 52
- Started on
-
Friday
January 1, 1960
- Ended on
-
Saturday
December 31, 1960
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 17
Sunday, April 17, 1960
- Decade
-
1960s
1960–1969
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
66
66 years before 2026.
- US presidential election
-
Yes
US holds a presidential election in years divisible by 4 starting from 1788.
- Summer Olympics
- Yes
- Winter Olympics
-
Yes
Held in the same year as the Summer Games until 1992.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5720 / 5721 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1379 / 1380 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Rat
Sexagenary cycle position 37 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2503 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1338 / 1339 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1952 / 1953 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1882 / 1881 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Shōwa 35
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
- Parity
- Even
- Digit count
- 4
- Digit sum
- 16
- Digit product
- 0
- Digital root
- 7
- Palindrome
- No
- Bit width
- 11 bits
- Reversed
- 691
- Flips to (rotate 180°)
- 961
- Recamán's sequence
- a(3,831) = 1,960
- Square (n²)
- 3,841,600
- Cube (n³)
- 7,529,536,000
- Divisor count
- 24
- σ(n) — sum of divisors
- 5,130
- φ(n) — Euler's totient
- 672
- Sum of prime factors
- 25
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 3 × 5 × 7 2
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred sixty
- Ordinal
- 1960th
- Roman numeral
- MCMLX
- Binary
- 11110101000
- Octal
- 3650
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7A8
- Base64
- B6g=
- One's complement
- 63,575 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡξʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋲·𝋠
- Chinese
- 一千九百六十
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰陸拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,960 = 7
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,960 = 3
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,960 = 4
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,960 = 8
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,960 = 1
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,960 = 7
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 1960, here are decompositions:
- 11 + 1949 = 1960
- 29 + 1931 = 1960
- 47 + 1913 = 1960
- 53 + 1907 = 1960
- 59 + 1901 = 1960
- 71 + 1889 = 1960
- 83 + 1877 = 1960
- 89 + 1871 = 1960
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: DE A8 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.168.
- Address
- 0.0.7.168
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.168
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
This passes the ABA routing number checksum and matches the Federal Reserve numbering scheme.
Banks operate many routing numbers per state and division; an unmatched checksum-valid number can still be a real RTN at a smaller institution.
The digit sequence 1960 first appears in π at position 717 of the decimal expansion (the 717ordinal-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.