1,993
1,993 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
1,993 (one thousand nine hundred ninety-three) is an odd 4-digit number. It is a prime number — divisible only by 1 and itself. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is MCMXCIII and in binary, 11111001001.
Interestingness
Notable events — 1993 AD
- Jan 1 Czechoslovakia splits into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- Jan 1 The European Economic Community removes internal trade barriers to form a single market.
- Feb 26 A truck bomb detonates beneath the World Trade Center in New York.
- Apr 19 The Waco siege ends with a fire at the Branch Davidian compound; 76 die.
- Sep 13 Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn.
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
-
Friday
January 1, 1993
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 1993
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 11
Sunday, April 11, 1993
- Decade
-
1990s
1990–1999
- Century
-
20th century
1901–2000
- Millennium
-
2nd millennium
1001–2000
- Years ago
-
33
33 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5753 / 5754 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1413 / 1414 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Water zodiac:Rooster
Sexagenary cycle position 10 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2536 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1371 / 1372 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1985 / 1986 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1915 / 1914 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Heisei 5
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
1,993 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√1,993 = [44; (1, 1, 1, 4, 29, 1, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 9, 5, 2, 10, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, …)]
Period length 47 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- one thousand nine hundred ninety-three
- Ordinal
- 1993rd
- Roman numeral
- MCMXCIII
- Binary
- 11111001001
- Octal
- 3711
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7C9
- Base64
- B8k=
- One's complement
- 63,542 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 1.993 × 10³
- As a duration
- 1,993 s = 33 minutes, 13 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵αϡϟγʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋳·𝋭
- Chinese
- 一千九百九十三
- Chinese (financial)
- 壹仟玖佰玖拾參
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 1,993 = 8
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 1,993 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 1,993 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 1,993 = 0
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 1,993 = 9
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 1,993 = 4
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: DF 89 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.201.
- Address
- 0.0.7.201
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.201
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 1,993 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): B6 (1975.5 Hz, +15¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): C7 (2048 Hz, -47¢ — about midway to B6)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): C7 (1974.1 Hz, +17¢)
The digit sequence 1993 first appears in π at position 36,605 of the decimal expansion (the 36,605ordinal-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.
Related reading
- Prime numbers — The building blocks of arithmetic: what primes are, why they matter, and how we find them.
- Egyptian hieroglyphic numerals — Seven hieroglyphs for every power of ten, from a single stroke to a million.