179 (number)
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179 is the natural number between 178 and 180. It is also a prime number.
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| Ordinal | One hundred [and] seventy-nine | ||
| Cardinal | 179th | ||
| Factorization | prime number
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| Roman numeral | CLXXIX | ||
| Binary | 10110011 | ||
| Hexadecimal | B3 | ||
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.
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