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397

397 is a prime, odd, a calendar year.

397 (three hundred ninety-seven) 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 CCCXCVII and in binary, 110001101.

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Interestingness

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Historical context — 397 AD

Calendar year

Year 397 (CCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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Historical context — 397 BC

Calendar year

Year 397 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, 397
Ended on
Wednesday
December 31, 397
Friday the 13ths
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
Decade
390s
390–399
Century
4th century
301–400
Millennium
1st millennium
1–1000
Years ago
1,629
1629 years before 2026.

In other calendars

Hebrew
4157 / 4158 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
Chinese
Year of the zodiac:Fire zodiac:Rooster
Sexagenary cycle position 34 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
Buddhist Era
940 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
Ethiopian
389 / 390 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
Indian National (Saka)
319 / 318 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.

Properties

Parity
Odd
Digit count
3
Digit sum
19
Digit product
189
Digital root
1
Palindrome
No
Bit width
9 bits
Reversed
793
Recamán's sequence
a(2,458) = 397
Square (n²)
157,609
Cube (n³)
62,570,773
Divisor count
2
σ(n) — sum of divisors
398
φ(n) — Euler's totient
396

Primality

397 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.

Divisors & multiples

All divisors (2)
1 · 397
Aliquot sum (sum of proper divisors): 1
Factor pairs (a × b = 397)
1 × 397
First multiples
397 · 794 (double) · 1,191 · 1,588 · 1,985 · 2,382 · 2,779 · 3,176 · 3,573 · 3,970

Sums & aliquot sequence

As a sum of two squares: 6² + 19²
As consecutive integers: 198 + 199

Continued fraction of √n

√397 = [19; (1, 12, 3, 4, 9, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 9, 4, 3, 12, 1, 38)]

Period length 21 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.

Representations

In words
three hundred ninety-seven
Ordinal
397th
Roman numeral
CCCXCVII
Binary
110001101
Octal
615
Hexadecimal
0x18D
Base64
AY0=
One's complement
65,138 (16-bit)
Scientific notation
3.97 × 10²
As a duration
397 s = 6 minutes, 37 seconds
In other bases
ternary (3) 112201
quaternary (4) 12031
quinary (5) 3042
senary (6) 1501
septenary (7) 1105
nonary (9) 481
undecimal (11) 331
duodecimal (12) 291
tridecimal (13) 247
tetradecimal (14) 205
pentadecimal (15) 1b7

As an angle

397° = 1 × 360° + 37°
37° ≈ 0.646 rad
Compass bearing: NE (northeast)

Historical numeral systems

Babylonian (base 60)
𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
Egyptian hieroglyphic
𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
Greek (Milesian)
τϟζʹ
Mayan (base 20)
𝋳·𝋱
Chinese
三百九十七
Chinese (financial)
參佰玖拾柒
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic ٣٩٧ Devanagari ३९७ Bengali ৩৯৭ Tamil ௩௯௭ Thai ๓๙๗ Tibetan ༣༩༧ Khmer ៣៩៧ Lao ໓໙໗ Burmese ၃၉၇

Digit at this position in famous constants

π — Pi (π)
Digit 397 = 1
e — Euler's number (e)
Digit 397 = 0
φ — Golden ratio (φ)
Digit 397 = 7
√2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
Digit 397 = 8
ln 2 — Natural log of 2
Digit 397 = 0
γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
Digit 397 = 9

Also seen as

Prime neighborhood

Adjacent primes:

  • Previous prime: 389 (gap of 8)
  • Next prime: 401 (gap of 4)

Pair status: cousin with 401.

Unicode codepoint
ƍ
Latin Small Letter Turned Delta
U+018D
Lowercase letter (Ll)

UTF-8 encoding: C6 8D (2 bytes).

Hex color
#00018D
RGB(0, 1, 141)
IPv4 address

As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.141.

Address
0.0.1.141
Class
reserved
IPv4-mapped IPv6
::ffff:0.0.1.141

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

Musical pitch

Heard as a frequency, 397 Hz is closest to:

  • Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): G4 (392 Hz, +22¢)
  • Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): G♯4 (406.4 Hz, -40¢)
  • Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G♯4 (391.7 Hz, +23¢)

Related reading

  • Prime numbers — The building blocks of arithmetic: what primes are, why they matter, and how we find them.
  • Egyptian hieroglyphic numerals — Seven hieroglyphs for every power of ten, from a single stroke to a million.