40
40 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Historical context — 40 AD
Calendar year
AD 40 (XL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 40 BC
Calendar year
Year 40 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Thursday or Friday of the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian calendar.
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Year facts
- Year type
-
Leap year
Divisible by 4 and not by 100; February has 29 days.
- Days in year
- 366
- ISO weeks
- 52
- Started on
-
Sunday
January 1, 40
- Ended on
-
Monday
December 31, 40
- Friday the 13ths
-
3
3 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
40s
40–49
- Century
-
1st century
1–100
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,986
1986 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
3800 / 3801 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Rat
Sexagenary cycle position 37 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
583 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
32 / 33 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
-38 / -39 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Cultural significance
Recurring number of "a long time" in scripture.
40 days of the Flood; 40 years of wandering; 40 days of Lent; Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness.
Sourced from Wikipedia (Numerology, Chinese numerology, Gematria, and per-culture articles).
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 3 × 5
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- forty
- Ordinal
- 40th
- Roman numeral
- XL
- Binary
- 101000
- Octal
- 50
- Hexadecimal
- 0x28
- Base64
- KA==
- One's complement
- 215 (8-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- μʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋢·𝋠
- Chinese
- 四十
- Chinese (financial)
- 肆拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 40 = 7
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 40 = 7
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 40 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 40 = 9
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 40 = 5
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 40 = 2
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 40, here are decompositions:
- 3 + 37 = 40
- 11 + 29 = 40
- 17 + 23 = 40
As an ASCII codepoint, 40 is (. Printable ASCII character (.
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.40.
- Address
- 0.0.0.40
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.40
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Matches numbered highway designations:
- I-40 — Barstow, CA to Wilmington, NC.
- US 40 — Atlantic City, NJ to Park City, UT — the historic National Road.
Type 40 on a seven-segment calculator, flip it 180°, and the display reads:
Oh
A staple of calculator humor since pocket calculators put digits in front of bored students.