550
550 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Historical context — 550 AD
Calendar year
Year 550 (DL) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 550 BC
Calendar year
The year 550 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
-
53
Long year: contains 53 ISO weeks.
- Started on
-
Thursday
January 1, 550
- Ended on
-
Thursday
December 31, 550
- Friday the 13ths
-
3
3 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
550s
550–559
- Century
-
6th century
501–600
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,476
1476 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4310 / 4311 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Horse
Sexagenary cycle position 7 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
1093 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
542 / 543 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
472 / 471 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 × 5 2 × 11
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- five hundred fifty
- Ordinal
- 550th
- Roman numeral
- DL
- Binary
- 1000100110
- Octal
- 1046
- Hexadecimal
- 0x226
- Base64
- AiY=
- One's complement
- 64,985 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- φνʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋡·𝋧·𝋪
- Chinese
- 五百五十
- Chinese (financial)
- 伍佰伍拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 550 = 9
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 550 = 2
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 550 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 550 = 2
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 550 = 6
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 550 = 7
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 550, here are decompositions:
- 3 + 547 = 550
- 29 + 521 = 550
- 41 + 509 = 550
- 47 + 503 = 550
- 59 + 491 = 550
- 71 + 479 = 550
- 83 + 467 = 550
- 89 + 461 = 550
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: C8 A6 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.2.38.
- Address
- 0.0.2.38
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.2.38
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
This passes the ABA routing number checksum and matches the Federal Reserve numbering scheme.
Banks operate many routing numbers per state and division; an unmatched checksum-valid number can still be a real RTN at a smaller institution.