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.
Interestingness
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
Primality
397 is prime. It has exactly two divisors: 1 and itself.
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
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
As an angle
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
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
UTF-8 encoding: C6 8D (2 bytes).
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.
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.