179 (number)

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179 is the natural number between 178 and 180. It is also a prime number.


List of numbersIntegers

<< 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 >>

Ordinal One hundred [and]
seventy-nine
Cardinal 179th
Factorization prime number
Roman numeral CLXXIX
Binary 10110011
Hexadecimal B3

[edit] In mathematics

179 is a prime number, and both a Sophie Germain prime and a safe prime, being the second term in the smallest Cunningham chain of the first kind that is six terms long, preceded by 89 and followed by 359.

179 is a twin prime with 181, making 179 a Chen prime. Since 179 is one less than a multiple of three, it is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part.

179 is a strictly non-palindromic number, it is not palindromic in binary or any base up to base 177.