Number
1,979
1,979 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
Notable events — 1979 AD
- Jan 16 The Shah flees Iran amid revolution; Khomeini returns from exile two weeks later.
- Mar 28 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island becomes the worst US nuclear accident.
- May 4 Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's first female prime minister.
- Nov 4 Iranian students seize the US embassy in Tehran; 52 Americans are held hostage.
- Dec 24 Soviet forces invade Afghanistan, beginning a nine-year war.
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
-
Monday
January 1, 1979
- Ended on
-
Monday
December 31, 1979
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 15
Sunday, April 15, 1979
- Decade
-
1970s
1970–1979
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
47
47 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5739 / 5740 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1399 / 1400 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Goat
Sexagenary cycle position 56 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2522 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1357 / 1358 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1971 / 1972 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1901 / 1900 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Shōwa 54
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
1,979 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:
989 + 990
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred seventy-nine
- Ordinal
- 1979th
- Roman numeral
- MCMLXXIX
- Binary
- 11110111011
- Octal
- 3673
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7BB
- Base64
- B7s=
- One's complement
- 63,556 (16-bit)
In other bases
ternary (3)
2201022
quaternary (4)
132323
quinary (5)
30404
senary (6)
13055
septenary (7)
5525
nonary (9)
2638
undecimal (11)
153a
duodecimal (12)
118b
tridecimal (13)
b93
tetradecimal (14)
a15
pentadecimal (15)
8be
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡοθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋲·𝋳
- Chinese
- 一千九百七十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰柒拾玖
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic
١٩٧٩
Devanagari
१९७९
Bengali
১৯৭৯
Tamil
௧௯௭௯
Thai
๑๙๗๙
Tibetan
༡༩༧༩
Khmer
១៩៧៩
Lao
໑໙໗໙
Burmese
၁၉၇၉
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,979 = 6
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,979 = 4
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,979 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,979 = 1
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,979 = 9
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,979 = 9
Also seen as
Prime neighborhood
Hex color
#0007BB
RGB(0, 7, 187)
IPv4 address
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.187.
- Address
- 0.0.7.187
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.187
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Position in π
The digit sequence 1979 first appears in π at position 2,905 of the decimal expansion (the 2,905ordinal-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.