2,008
2,008 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Notable events — 2008 AD
- Feb 17 Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
- May 3 Cyclone Nargis devastates Myanmar, killing over 138,000.
- May 12 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Sichuan, China, killing some 87,000.
- Aug 8 The Summer Olympics open in Beijing.
- Sep 15 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, deepening the global financial crisis.
- Nov 4 Barack Obama is elected the first African-American US president.
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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
-
Tuesday
January 1, 2008
- Ended on
-
Wednesday
December 31, 2008
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Easter Sunday
-
March 23
Sunday, March 23, 2008
- Decade
-
2000s
2000–2009
- Century
-
21st century
2001–2100
- Millennium
-
3rd millennium
2001–3000
- Years ago
-
18
18 years before 2026.
- US presidential election
-
Yes
US holds a presidential election in years divisible by 4 starting from 1788.
- Summer Olympics
- Yes
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
5768 / 5769 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
1428 / 1430 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Rat
Sexagenary cycle position 25 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
2551 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
1386 / 1387 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
2000 / 2001 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
1930 / 1929 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
- Japanese
-
Heisei 20
Reign-era counting from the start of each emperor's reign.
Properties
- Parity
- Even
- Digit count
- 4
- Digit sum
- 10
- Digit product
- 0
- Digital root
- 1
- Palindrome
- No
- Bit width
- 11 bits
- Reversed
- 8,002
- Recamán's sequence
- a(3,735) = 2,008
- Square (n²)
- 4,032,064
- Cube (n³)
- 8,096,384,512
- Divisor count
- 8
- σ(n) — sum of divisors
- 3,780
- φ(n) — Euler's totient
- 1,000
- Sum of prime factors
- 257
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 3 × 251
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- two thousand eight
- Ordinal
- 2008th
- Roman numeral
- MMVIII
- Binary
- 11111011000
- Octal
- 3730
- Hexadecimal
- 0x7D8
- Base64
- B9g=
- One's complement
- 63,527 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓆼𓆼𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ͵βηʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋥·𝋠·𝋨
- Chinese
- 二千零八
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳仟零捌
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 2,008 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 2,008 = 6
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 2,008 = 4
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 2,008 = 1
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 2,008 = 0
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 2,008 = 7
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 2008, here are decompositions:
- 5 + 2003 = 2008
- 11 + 1997 = 2008
- 29 + 1979 = 2008
- 59 + 1949 = 2008
- 101 + 1907 = 2008
- 107 + 1901 = 2008
- 131 + 1877 = 2008
- 137 + 1871 = 2008
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: DF 98 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.7.216.
- Address
- 0.0.7.216
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.7.216
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 2008 first appears in π at position 11,651 of the decimal expansion (the 11,651ordinal-suffix:st 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.