279
279 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
Historical context — 279 AD
Calendar year
Year 279 (CCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 279 BC
Calendar year
Year 279 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
-
Wednesday
January 1, 279
- Ended on
-
Wednesday
December 31, 279
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
270s
270–279
- Century
-
3rd century
201–300
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,747
1747 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4039 / 4040 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Pig
Sexagenary cycle position 36 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
822 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
271 / 272 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
201 / 200 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 3 2 × 31
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- two hundred seventy-nine
- Ordinal
- 279th
- Roman numeral
- CCLXXIX
- Binary
- 100010111
- Octal
- 427
- Hexadecimal
- 0x117
- Base64
- ARc=
- One's complement
- 65,256 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- σοθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋭·𝋳
- Chinese
- 二百七十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳佰柒拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 279 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 279 = 4
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 279 = 8
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 279 = 3
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 279 = 5
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 279 = 8
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: C4 97 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.23.
- Address
- 0.0.1.23
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.1.23
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.