299
299 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
299 (two hundred ninety-nine) is an odd 3-digit number. It is a composite number with 4 divisors, and factors as 13 × 23. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is CCXCIX and in binary, 100101011.
Interestingness
Historical context — 299 AD
Calendar year
Year 299 (CCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 299 BC
Calendar year
Year 299 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
-
Sunday
January 1, 299
- Ended on
-
Sunday
December 31, 299
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
290s
290–299
- Century
-
3rd century
201–300
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,727
1727 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4059 / 4060 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Goat
Sexagenary cycle position 56 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
842 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
291 / 292 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
221 / 220 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 13 × 23
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√299 = [17; (3, 2, 3, 34)]
Period length 4 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- two hundred ninety-nine
- Ordinal
- 299th
- Roman numeral
- CCXCIX
- Binary
- 100101011
- Octal
- 453
- Hexadecimal
- 0x12B
- Base64
- ASs=
- One's complement
- 65,236 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 2.99 × 10²
- As a duration
- 299 s = 4 minutes, 59 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- σϟθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋮·𝋳
- Chinese
- 二百九十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳佰玖拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 299 = 2
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 299 = 0
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 299 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 299 = 9
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 299 = 7
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 299 = 5
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: C4 AB (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.43.
- Address
- 0.0.1.43
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.1.43
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 299 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): D4 (293.7 Hz, +31¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): D♯4 (304.4 Hz, -31¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): D♯4 (293.4 Hz, +32¢)
Related reading
- Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.