241
241 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
241 (two hundred forty-one) 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 CCXLI and in binary, 11110001.
Interestingness
Historical context — 241 AD
Calendar year
Year 241 (CCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
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Notable events — 241 BC
- Mar 10 Rome defeats Carthage at the Aegates Islands, ending the First Punic War.
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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
-
Friday
January 1, 241
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 241
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
240s
240–249
- Century
-
3rd century
201–300
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,785
1785 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4001 / 4002 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Rooster
Sexagenary cycle position 58 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
784 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
233 / 234 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
163 / 162 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
241 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√241 = [15; (1, 1, 9, 1, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 1, 9, 1, 1, 30)]
Period length 17 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- two hundred forty-one
- Ordinal
- 241st
- Roman numeral
- CCXLI
- Binary
- 11110001
- Octal
- 361
- Hexadecimal
- 0xF1
- Base64
- 8Q==
- One's complement
- 14 (8-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 2.41 × 10²
- As a duration
- 241 s = 4 minutes, 1 second
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- σμαʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋬·𝋡
- Chinese
- 二百四十一
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳佰肆拾壹
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 241 = 5
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 241 = 4
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 241 = 9
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 241 = 8
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 241 = 5
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 241 = 1
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: C3 B1 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.241.
- Address
- 0.0.0.241
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.241
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 241 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): B3 (246.9 Hz, -42¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): B3 (241.6 Hz, -5¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): C4 (246.8 Hz, -41¢)
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.