359
359 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.
359 (three hundred fifty-nine) 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 CCCLIX and in binary, 101100111.
Interestingness
Historical context — 359 AD
Calendar year
Year 359 (CCCLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
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Notable events — 359 BC
- Undated Philip II becomes king of Macedon.
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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
-
53
Long year: contains 53 ISO weeks.
- Started on
-
Thursday
January 1, 359
- Ended on
-
Thursday
December 31, 359
- Friday the 13ths
-
3
3 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
350s
350–359
- Century
-
4th century
301–400
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,667
1667 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4119 / 4120 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
-
902 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
351 / 352 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
281 / 280 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
359 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√359 = [18; (1, 17, 1, 36)]
Period length 4 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- three hundred fifty-nine
- Ordinal
- 359th
- Roman numeral
- CCCLIX
- Binary
- 101100111
- Octal
- 547
- Hexadecimal
- 0x167
- Base64
- AWc=
- One's complement
- 65,176 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 3.59 × 10²
- As a duration
- 359 s = 5 minutes, 59 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- τνθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋱·𝋳
- Chinese
- 三百五十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 參佰伍拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 359 = 3
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 359 = 2
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 359 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 359 = 7
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 359 = 6
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 359 = 2
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: C5 A7 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.103.
- Address
- 0.0.1.103
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.1.103
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Heard as a frequency, 359 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): F4 (349.2 Hz, +48¢ — about midway to F♯4)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): F♯4 (362 Hz, -15¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): F♯4 (349 Hz, +49¢ — about midway to G4)
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.