608
608 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
608 (six hundred eight) is an even 3-digit number. It is a composite number with 12 divisors, and factors as 2⁵ × 19. Its proper divisors sum to 652, more than the number itself, making it an abundant number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is DCVIII and in binary, 1001100000.
Interestingness
Historical context — 608 AD
Calendar year
Year 608 (DCVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 608 BC
Decade
This article concerns the period 609 BC – 600 BC.
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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
-
Friday
January 1, 608
- Ended on
-
Saturday
December 31, 608
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
600s
600–609
- Century
-
7th century
601–700
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,418
1418 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4368 / 4369 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Dragon
Sexagenary cycle position 5 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
1151 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
600 / 601 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
530 / 529 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
- Parity
- Even
- Digit count
- 3
- Digit sum
- 14
- Digit product
- 0
- Digital root
- 5
- Palindrome
- No
- Bit width
- 10 bits
- Reversed
- 806
- Flips to (rotate 180°)
- 809
- Recamán's sequence
- a(1,043) = 608
- Square (n²)
- 369,664
- Cube (n³)
- 224,755,712
- Divisor count
- 12
- σ(n) — sum of divisors
- 1,260
- φ(n) — Euler's totient
- 288
- Sum of prime factors
- 29
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 5 × 19
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√608 = [24; (1, 1, 1, 11, 1, 1, 1, 48)]
Period length 8 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- six hundred eight
- Ordinal
- 608th
- Roman numeral
- DCVIII
- Binary
- 1001100000
- Octal
- 1140
- Hexadecimal
- 0x260
- Base64
- AmA=
- One's complement
- 64,927 (16-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 6.08 × 10²
- As a duration
- 608 s = 10 minutes, 8 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- χηʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋡·𝋪·𝋨
- Chinese
- 六百零八
- Chinese (financial)
- 陸佰零捌
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 608 = 1
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 608 = 1
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 608 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 608 = 4
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 608 = 1
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 608 = 5
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 608, here are decompositions:
- 7 + 601 = 608
- 31 + 577 = 608
- 37 + 571 = 608
- 61 + 547 = 608
- 67 + 541 = 608
- 109 + 499 = 608
- 151 + 457 = 608
- 199 + 409 = 608
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
UTF-8 encoding: C9 A0 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.2.96.
- Address
- 0.0.2.96
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.2.96
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
The number 608 is an active NANP area code (North American Numbering Plan).
- Primary area
- Madison
- Region
- Wisconsin
- Country
- United States
Most NANP area codes have multiple overlays in dense regions; the primary area listed is the historic/largest population center for this code.
Heard as a frequency, 608 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): D♯5 (622.3 Hz, -40¢)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): D♯5 (608.9 Hz, -2¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): E5 (621.8 Hz, -39¢)
Related reading
- Mayan numerals — Vigesimal dots-and-bars with a shell zero — one of the earliest true zeros.