2,003
2,003 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
2,003 (two thousand 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 MMIII and in binary, 11111010011.
Interestingness
Notable events — 2003 AD
- Feb 1 The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry; all seven astronauts die.
- Mar 12 The WHO issues a global alert on the SARS coronavirus outbreak.
- Mar 20 A US-led coalition invades Iraq, beginning the Iraq War.
- Apr 14 The Human Genome Project is declared complete.
- Dec 13 Saddam Hussein is captured by US forces near Tikrit, Iraq.
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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
-
Wednesday
January 1, 2003
- Ended on
-
Wednesday
December 31, 2003
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
April 20
Sunday, April 20, 2003
- Decade
-
2000s
2000–2009
- Century
-
21st century
2001–2100
- Millennium
-
3rd millennium
2001–3000
- Years ago
-
23
23 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5763 / 5764 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1423 / 1424 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Water zodiac:Goat
Sexagenary cycle position 20 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2546 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1381 / 1382 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
1995 / 1996 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1925 / 1924 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Heisei 15
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
Primality
2,003 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√2,003 = [44; (1, 3, 12, 1, 1, 6, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 6, 7, 1, 43, 1, 7, 6, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 6, …)]
Period length 30 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- two thousand three
- Ordinal
- 2003rd
- Roman numeral
- MMIII
- Binary
- 11111010011
- Octal
- 3723
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7D3
- Base64
- B9M=
- One's complement
- 63,532 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 2.003 × 10³
- As a duration
- 2,003 s = 33 minutes, 23 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓆼𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵βγʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋥·𝋠·𝋣
- Chinese
- 二千零三
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳仟零參
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 2,003 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 2,003 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 2,003 = 6
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 2,003 = 4
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 2,003 = 7
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 2,003 = 8
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: DF 93 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.211.
- Address
- 0.0.7.211
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.211
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 2,003 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): B6 (1975.5 Hz, +24¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): C7 (2048 Hz, -38¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): C7 (1974.1 Hz, +25¢)
The digit sequence 2003 first appears in π at position 25,410 of the decimal expansion (the 25,410ordinal-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.
- Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.