89 (number)

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<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>89 (eighty-nine) is the natural number following 88 and preceding 90.

Cardinal 89
eighty-nine
Ordinal 89th
eighty-ninth
Factorization prime
Divisors 1, 89
Roman numeral LXXXIX
Binary 01011001
Hexadecimal 59

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Eighty-nine is the 24th prime number, following 83 and preceding 97. 89 is a Chen prime. It is the smallest Sophie Germain prime to start a Cunningham chain of the first kind of six terms, {89, 179, 359, 719, 1439, 2879}. 89 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.

89 is a Fibonacci number. Its reciprocal has a curious relationship to the Fibonacci sequence F(n):

\frac{1}{89}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty{F(n)\times 10^{-(n+1)}}=0.011235955...

89 is also a Markov number, appearing in solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation with other odd-indexed Fibonacci numbers.

Although 89 is not a Lychrel number in base 10, it is unusual that it takes 24 iterations of the reverse and add process to reach a palindrome. Among the known non-Lychrel numbers in the first 10000 integers, no other number requires that many or more iterations. The palindrome reached is also unusually large.[1]

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Eighty-nine is also:

  • A jersey number of a Russian and NHL hockey legend Alexander Mogilny
  • Part of the name of the baseball team Oklahoma City 89ers (1962-1997)
  • The designation of Interstate 89, a freeway that runs from New Hampshire to Vermont
  • The ISBN Group Identifier for books published in Korea
  • Pop Song 89
  • The year AD 89, 89 BC
  • California Proposition 89, a 2006 California ballot initiative on campaign finance reform
  • The Oklahoma Redhawks were formerly known as the Oklahoma 89ers.
  • In Rugby, a "89" or eight-nine move is a phase following a scrum, in which the number 8 catches the ball and transfers it to number 9 (scrum half).
  • The greatest number of verses in a chapter of a book of the Bible other than the Book of Psalms--specifically Numbers chapter 7.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "196-Algorithm." From MathWorld, a Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/196-Algorithm.html