979
979 is a composite number, odd, a calendar year.
Historical context — 979 AD
Calendar year
Year 979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
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Historical context — 979 BC
Decade
The 970s BC is a decade that lasted from 979 BC to 970 BC.
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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, 979
- Ended on
-
Friday
December 31, 979
- Friday the 13ths
-
1
One Friday the 13th this year.
- Decade
-
970s
970–979
- Century
-
10th century
901–1000
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,047
1047 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4739 / 4740 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Islamic Hijri
-
368 / 369 AH
Lunar calendar; year spans differ from Gregorian.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Earth zodiac:Rabbit
Sexagenary cycle position 16 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
1522 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Persian Solar Hijri
-
357 / 358 SH
Iranian calendar; Nowruz (new year) falls on the spring equinox.
- Ethiopian
-
971 / 972 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
901 / 900 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 11 × 89
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- nine hundred seventy-nine
- Ordinal
- 979th
- Roman numeral
- CMLXXIX
- Binary
- 1111010011
- Octal
- 1723
- Hexadecimal
- 0x3D3
- Base64
- A9M=
- One's complement
- 64,556 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- ϡοθʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋢·𝋨·𝋳
- Chinese
- 九百七十九
- Chinese (financial)
- 玖佰柒拾玖
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 979 = 7
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 979 = 5
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 979 = 0
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 979 = 1
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 979 = 4
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 979 = 7
Also seen as
UTF-8 encoding: CF 93 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.3.211.
- Address
- 0.0.3.211
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.3.211
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
The number 979 is an active NANP area code (North American Numbering Plan).
- Primary area
- Bryan / College Station
- Region
- Texas
- 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.