45
45 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
45 (forty-five) is an odd 2-digit number. It is a composite number with 6 divisors, and factors as 3² × 5. It is the ninth triangular number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is XLV and in binary, 101101.
Interestingness
Historical context — 45 AD
Calendar year
AD 45 (XLV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 45 BC
Calendar year
Year 45 BC was either a common year starting on Thursday, Friday or Saturday or a leap year starting on Friday or Saturday and the first year of the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian 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
-
Sunday
January 1, 45
- Ended on
-
Sunday
December 31, 45
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
40s
40–49
- Century
-
1st century
1–100
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,981
1981 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
3805 / 3806 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Wood zodiac:Snake
Sexagenary cycle position 42 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
588 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
37 / 38 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
-33 / -34 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 3 2 × 5
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√45 = [6; (1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 12)]
Period length 6 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- forty-five
- Ordinal
- 45th
- Roman numeral
- XLV
- Binary
- 101101
- Octal
- 55
- Hexadecimal
- 0x2D
- Base64
- LQ==
- One's complement
- 210 (8-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 4.5 × 10¹
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- μεʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋢·𝋥
- Chinese
- 四十五
- Chinese (financial)
- 肆拾伍
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 45 = 9
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 45 = 9
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 45 = 7
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 45 = 7
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 45 = 3
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 45 = 3
Also seen as
As an ASCII codepoint, 45 is -. Printable ASCII character -.
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.45.
- Address
- 0.0.0.45
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.45
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Matches numbered highway designation:
- I-45 — Galveston to Dallas, TX.
As a geographic coordinate in degrees, this matches:
- 45th parallel (latitude) — Halfway between the equator and the pole; crosses through Oregon, Minnesota, Maine, France, Italy, Croatia.
Heard as a frequency, 45 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): F♯1 (46.2 Hz, -47¢ — about midway to F1)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): F♯1 (45.3 Hz, -10¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G1 (46.2 Hz, -46¢ — about midway to F♯1)
As a MIDI note number, 45 is A2 (110 Hz at concert pitch). (very low — many laptop and phone speakers can't reproduce it)
On the periodic table, atomic number 45 is Rhodium (Rh) — period 5.
45° is π/4 radians — half a right angle, the angle of an isosceles right triangle.
Related reading
- Triangular numbers — 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 … the counting numbers stacked into triangles, and Gauss's famous shortcut for summing them.
- Babylonian numerals — The base-60 cuneiform system that gave us 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and 360°.