90
90 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
90 (ninety) is an even 2-digit number. It is a composite number with 12 divisors, and factors as 2 × 3² × 5. Its proper divisors sum to 144, more than the number itself, making it an abundant number. Written other ways, in Roman numerals it is XC and in binary, 1011010.
Interestingness
Historical context — 90 AD
Calendar year
AD 90 (XC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 90 BC
Calendar year
Year 90 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
-
Sunday
January 1, 90
- Ended on
-
Sunday
December 31, 90
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
90s
90–99
- Century
-
1st century
1–100
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,936
1936 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
3850 / 3851 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Metal zodiac:Tiger
Sexagenary cycle position 27 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
633 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
82 / 83 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
12 / 11 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 × 3 2 × 5
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Continued fraction of √n
√90 = [9; (2, 18)]
Period length 2 — the block in parentheses repeats forever.
Representations
- In words
- ninety
- Ordinal
- 90th
- Roman numeral
- XC
- Binary
- 1011010
- Octal
- 132
- Hexadecimal
- 0x5A
- Base64
- Wg==
- One's complement
- 165 (8-bit)
- Scientific notation
- 9 × 10¹
- As a duration
- 90 s = 1 minute, 30 seconds
As an angle
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆
- Greek (Milesian)
- ϟʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋤·𝋪
- Chinese
- 九十
- Chinese (financial)
- 玖拾
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 90 = 2
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 90 = 7
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 90 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 90 = 3
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 90 = 2
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 90 = 6
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 90, here are decompositions:
- 7 + 83 = 90
- 11 + 79 = 90
- 17 + 73 = 90
- 19 + 71 = 90
- 23 + 67 = 90
- 29 + 61 = 90
- 31 + 59 = 90
- 37 + 53 = 90
Showing the first eight; more decompositions exist.
As an ASCII codepoint, 90 is Z. Printable ASCII character Z.
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.90.
- Address
- 0.0.0.90
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.90
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Matches numbered highway designation:
- I-90 — Seattle, WA to Boston, MA — the longest Interstate (3,020 mi).
As a geographic coordinate in degrees, this matches:
- Pole (latitude) — 90° latitude — the North Pole (90°N) and South Pole (90°S).
Heard as a frequency, 90 Hz is closest to:
- Concert pitch (A4 = 440 Hz): F♯2 (92.5 Hz, -47¢ — about midway to F2)
- Scientific pitch (C4 = 256 Hz): F♯2 (90.5 Hz, -10¢)
- Baroque pitch (A4 = 415 Hz): G2 (92.4 Hz, -46¢ — about midway to F♯2)
As a MIDI note number, 90 is F♯6 (1480 Hz at concert pitch).
On the periodic table, atomic number 90 is Thorium (Th) — period 7.
90° is π/2 radians — a right angle.
Related reading
- Babylonian numerals — The base-60 cuneiform system that gave us 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and 360°.