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2,999

2,999 is a prime, odd.

2,999 (two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine) is an odd 4-digit number. It is a prime number — divisible only by 1 and itself. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is MMCMXCIX and in binary, 101110110111.

Arithmetic Number Chen Prime Cube-Free Deficient Number Odious Number Prime Recamán's Sequence Safe Prime Squarefree Twin Prime

Interestingness

Properties

Parity
Odd
Digit count
4
Digit sum
29
Digit product
1,458
Digital root
2
Palindrome
No
Bit width
12 bits
Reversed
9,992
Recamán's sequence
a(1,417) = 2,999
Square (n²)
8,994,001
Cube (n³)
26,973,008,999
Divisor count
2
σ(n) — sum of divisors
3,000
φ(n) — Euler's totient
2,998

Primality

2,999 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.

Divisors & multiples

All divisors (2)
1 · 2999
Aliquot sum (sum of proper divisors): 1
Factor pairs (a × b = 2,999)
1 × 2999
First multiples
2,999 · 5,998 (double) · 8,997 · 11,996 · 14,995 · 17,994 · 20,993 · 23,992 · 26,991 · 29,990

Sums & aliquot sequence

As consecutive integers: 1,499 + 1,500

Continued fraction of √n

√2,999 = [54; (1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 21, 2, 1, 5, 10, 1, 3, 2, 7, 1, 53, 1, 7, 2, 3, 1, 10, 5, 1, …)]

Period length 32 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.

Representations

In words
two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine
Ordinal
2999th
Roman numeral
MMCMXCIX
Binary
101110110111
Octal
5667
Hexadecimal
0xBB7
Base64
C7c=
One's complement
62,536 (16-bit)
Scientific notation
2.999 × 10³
As a duration
2,999 s = 49 minutes, 59 seconds
In other bases
ternary (3) 11010002
quaternary (4) 232313
quinary (5) 43444
senary (6) 21515
septenary (7) 11513
nonary (9) 4102
undecimal (11) 2287
duodecimal (12) 189b
tridecimal (13) 1499
tetradecimal (14) 1143
pentadecimal (15) d4e

As an angle

2,999° = 8 × 360° + 119°
119° ≈ 2.077 rad
Compass bearing: ESE (east-southeast)

Historical numeral systems

Babylonian (base 60)
𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
Egyptian hieroglyphic
𓆼𓆼𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
Greek (Milesian)
͵βϡϟθʹ
Mayan (base 20)
𝋧·𝋩·𝋳
Chinese
二千九百九十九
Chinese (financial)
貳仟玖佰玖拾玖
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic ٢٩٩٩ Devanagari २९९९ Bengali ২৯৯৯ Tamil ௨௯௯௯ Thai ๒๙๙๙ Tibetan ༢༩༩༩ Khmer ២៩៩៩ Lao ໒໙໙໙ Burmese ၂၉၉၉

Digit at this position in famous constants

π — Pi (π)
Digit 2,999 = 9
e — Euler's number (e)
Digit 2,999 = 8
φ — Golden ratio (φ)
Digit 2,999 = 2
√2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
Digit 2,999 = 8
ln 2 — Natural log of 2
Digit 2,999 = 0
γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
Digit 2,999 = 6

Also seen as

Prime neighborhood

Adjacent primes:

  • Previous prime: 2,971 (gap of 28)
  • Next prime: 3,001 (gap of 2)

Pair status: twin with 3001.

Unicode codepoint
Tamil Letter Ssa
U+0BB7
Other letter (Lo)

UTF-8 encoding: E0 AE B7 (3 bytes).

Hex color
#000BB7
RGB(0, 11, 183)
IPv4 address

As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.11.183.

Address
0.0.11.183
Class
reserved
IPv4-mapped IPv6
::ffff:0.0.11.183

Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.

Musical pitch

Heard as a frequency, 2,999 Hz is closest to:

  • Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): F♯7 (2960 Hz, +23¢)
  • Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): G7 (3068.5 Hz, -40¢)
  • Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G7 (2957.8 Hz, +24¢)
Position in π

The digit sequence 2999 first appears in π at position 21,578 of the decimal expansion (the 21,578ordinal-suffix:th 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.

Related reading

  • Prime numbers — The building blocks of arithmetic: what primes are, why they matter, and how we find them.
  • Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.