66
66 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Historical context — 66 AD
Calendar year
AD 66 (LXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 66 BC
Calendar year
Year 66 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
-
Friday
January 1, 66
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 66
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
60s
60–69
- Century
-
1st century
1–100
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,960
1960 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
3826 / 3827 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Fire zodiac:Tiger
Sexagenary cycle position 3 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
609 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
58 / 59 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
-12 / -13 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 × 3 × 11
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- sixty-six
- Ordinal
- 66th
- Roman numeral
- LXVI
- Binary
- 1000010
- Octal
- 102
- Hexadecimal
- 0x42
- Base64
- Qg==
- One's complement
- 189 (8-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ξϛʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋣·𝋦
- Chinese
- 六十六
- Chinese (financial)
- 陸拾陸
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 66 = 0
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 66 = 2
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 66 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 66 = 9
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 66 = 9
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 66 = 8
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 66, here are decompositions:
- 5 + 61 = 66
- 7 + 59 = 66
- 13 + 53 = 66
- 19 + 47 = 66
- 23 + 43 = 66
- 29 + 37 = 66
As an ASCII codepoint, 66 is B. Printable ASCII character B.
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.66.
- Address
- 0.0.0.66
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.66
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Matches numbered highway designations:
- I-66 — Strasburg, VA to Washington, D.C.
- US 66 — (decommissioned 1985) Chicago to Santa Monica — "the Mother Road" of American culture and song.
As a geographic coordinate in degrees, this matches:
- Arctic / Antarctic Circle (latitude) — Approximately 66.5° latitude — the latitude beyond which the Sun does not set on the summer solstice (or rise on the winter solstice).