259
259 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
Historical context — 259 AD
Calendar year
Year 259 (CCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 259 BC
Calendar year
Year 259 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
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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
-
Saturday
January 1, 259
- Ended on
-
Saturday
December 31, 259
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
250s
250–259
- Century
-
3rd century
201–300
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,767
1767 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4019 / 4020 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Rabbit
Sexagenary cycle position 16 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
802 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
251 / 252 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
181 / 180 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 7 × 37
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- two hundred fifty-nine
- Ordinal
- 259th
- Roman numeral
- CCLIX
- Binary
- 100000011
- Octal
- 403
- Hexadecimal
- 0x103
- Base64
- AQM=
- One's complement
- 65,276 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- σνθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋬·𝋳
- Chinese
- 二百五十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳佰伍拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 259 = 6
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 259 = 0
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 259 = 8
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 259 = 9
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 259 = 0
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 259 = 5
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: C4 83 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.3.
- Address
- 0.0.1.3
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.1.3
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.