number.wiki
Number

197

197 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.

197 (one hundred ninety-seven) is an odd 3-digit number. It is a prime number — divisible only by 1 and itself. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is CXCVII and in binary, 11000101.

Arithmetic Number Chen Prime Circular Prime Cousin Prime Cube-Free Deficient Number Evil Number Keith Number Left-Truncatable Prime Prime Pythagorean Prime Recamán's Sequence Sexy Prime Squarefree Twin Prime Year

Interestingness

13 notable facts · grade A
less more

Historical context — 197 AD

Calendar year

Year 197 (CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (en) ↗ · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Read the full article on Wikipedia →

Historical context — 197 BC

Calendar year

Year 197 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (en) ↗ · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Read the full article on Wikipedia →

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
Sunday
January 1, 197
Ended on
Sunday
December 31, 197
Friday the 13ths
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
Decade
190s
190–199
Century
2nd century
101–200
Millennium
1st millennium
1–1000
Years ago
1,829
1829 years before 2026.

In other calendars

Hebrew
3957 / 3958 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
Chinese
Year of the zodiac:Fire zodiac:Ox
Sexagenary cycle position 14 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
Buddhist Era
740 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
Ethiopian
189 / 190 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
Indian National (Saka)
119 / 118 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.

Properties

Parity
Odd
Digit count
3
Digit sum
17
Digit product
63
Digital root
8
Palindrome
No
Bit width
8 bits
Reversed
791
Recamán's sequence
a(1,377) = 197
Square (n²)
38,809
Cube (n³)
7,645,373
Divisor count
2
σ(n) — sum of divisors
198
φ(n) — Euler's totient
196

Primality

197 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.

Divisors & multiples

All divisors (2)
1 · 197
Aliquot sum (sum of proper divisors): 1
Factor pairs (a × b = 197)
1 × 197
First multiples
197 · 394 (double) · 591 · 788 · 985 · 1,182 · 1,379 · 1,576 · 1,773 · 1,970

Sums & aliquot sequence

As a sum of two squares: 1² + 14²
As consecutive integers: 98 + 99

Continued fraction of √n

√197 = [14; (28)]

Period length 1 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.

Representations

In words
one hundred ninety-seven
Ordinal
197th
Roman numeral
CXCVII
Binary
11000101
Octal
305
Hexadecimal
0xC5
Base64
xQ==
One's complement
58 (8-bit)
Scientific notation
1.97 × 10²
As a duration
197 s = 3 minutes, 17 seconds
In other bases
ternary (3) 21022
quaternary (4) 3011
quinary (5) 1242
senary (6) 525
septenary (7) 401
nonary (9) 238
undecimal (11) 16a
duodecimal (12) 145
tridecimal (13) 122
tetradecimal (14) 101
pentadecimal (15) d2
Palindromic in base 6, base 14

As an angle

197°
197° ≈ 3.438 rad
Compass bearing: SSW (south-southwest)

Historical numeral systems

Babylonian (base 60)
𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
Egyptian hieroglyphic
𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
Greek (Milesian)
ρϟζʹ
Mayan (base 20)
𝋩·𝋱
Chinese
一百九十七
Chinese (financial)
壹佰玖拾柒
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic ١٩٧ Devanagari १९७ Bengali ১৯৭ Tamil ௧௯௭ Thai ๑๙๗ Tibetan ༡༩༧ Khmer ១៩៧ Lao ໑໙໗ Burmese ၁၉၇

Digit at this position in famous constants

π — Pi (π)
Digit 197 = 3
e — Euler's number (e)
Digit 197 = 0
φ — Golden ratio (φ)
Digit 197 = 2
√2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
Digit 197 = 5
ln 2 — Natural log of 2
Digit 197 = 1
γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
Digit 197 = 0

Also seen as

Prime neighborhood

Adjacent primes:

  • Previous prime: 193 (gap of 4)
  • Next prime: 199 (gap of 2)

Pair status: twin with 199, cousin with 193.

Unicode codepoint
Å
Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above
U+00C5
Uppercase letter (Lu)

UTF-8 encoding: C3 85 (2 bytes).

Hex color
#0000C5
RGB(0, 0, 197)
IPv4 address

As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.197.

Address
0.0.0.197
Class
reserved
IPv4-mapped IPv6
::ffff:0.0.0.197

Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.

Musical pitch

Heard as a frequency, 197 Hz is closest to:

  • Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): G3 (196 Hz, +9¢)
  • Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): G3 (191.8 Hz, +46¢ — about midway to G♯3)
  • Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G♯3 (195.9 Hz, +10¢)

Related reading

  • Prime numbers — The building blocks of arithmetic: what primes are, why they matter, and how we find them.
  • Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.