512 (number)
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Cardinal | five hundred twelve | |||
Ordinal |
512th (five hundred and twelfth) | |||
Factorization | 29 | |||
Roman numeral | DXII | |||
Binary | 10000000002 | |||
Ternary | 2002223 | |||
Quaternary | 200004 | |||
Quinary | 40225 | |||
Senary | 22126 | |||
Octal | 10008 | |||
Duodecimal | 36812 | |||
Hexadecimal | 20016 | |||
Vigesimal | 15C20 | |||
Base 36 | E836 |
512 is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
512 is a power of two: 29 (2 to the 9th power) and the cube of 8: 83.
Also, it is the eleventh Leyland number.
Special use in computers
512 bytes is a common sector size and exactly a half of kibibyte.
Internet Relay Chat restricts the size of a message to 510 bytes, which fits to 512-bytes buffer together with message separating CRLF sequence.[1]
512 = 2·256 is the highest number of glyphs, which VGA character generator can use simultaneously.
Most CT scans are 512x512 resolution.
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