229 (number)
Encyclopedia
229 is the natural number between 228 and 230
. It is also a prime number
.
The North American telephone area code 229
is assigned to the area around the city of Albany
in southwestern Georgia
in North America.
229 is also the international dialing code for Benin
.
(with 227
), a cousin prime
, and a sexy prime
. 229 is also a prime triplet
(with 227
and 233
).
In base 10, the smallest prime that added up to the reversal of its digits yields another prime is 229, since 229 + 922 = 1151 .
There exist 229 different projective configurations of type (123123), in which twelve points and twelve lines meet with three lines through each of the points and three points on each of the lines.
, 229 is the lowest individual batting score not achieved by any player in test match
cricket.
230 (number)
230 is the natural number following 229 and preceding 231.-In mathematics:It is a composite number, with its divisors being 2, 5, 10, 23, 46, and 115. Its factorisation makes it a sphenic number. There is no integer with 230 coprimes below it, thus 230 is a nontotient...
. It is also a prime number
Prime number
A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example 5 is prime, as only 1 and 5 divide it, whereas 6 is composite, since it has the divisors 2...
.
The North American telephone area code 229
Area code 229
229 is the North American telephone area code for part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It covers Albany, Valdosta, Bainbridge, Americus, Fitzgerald, Cairo, Moultrie, Thomasville, Tifton and southwestern Georgia. It was formerly part of Area code 912...
is assigned to the area around the city of Albany
Albany, Georgia
Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...
in southwestern Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
in North America.
229 is also the international dialing code for Benin
Benin
Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...
.
| Ordinal Ordinal number In set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals... | Two hundred [and] twenty-nine |
| Cardinal Cardinal number In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number – the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite... |
229th |
| Factorization Factorization In mathematics, factorization or factoring is the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original... |
prime number Prime number A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example 5 is prime, as only 1 and 5 divide it, whereas 6 is composite, since it has the divisors 2... |
| Roman numeral | CCXXIX |
| Binary Binary numeral system The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual base-2 system is a positional notation with a radix of 2... |
11100101 |
| Hexadecimal Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen... |
E5 |
In mathematics
229 is a regular prime, a long prime, a twin primeTwin prime
A twin prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by two. Except for the pair , this is the smallest possible difference between two primes. Some examples of twin prime pairs are , , , , and...
(with 227
227 (number)
227 is the natural number between 226 and 228. It is also a prime number.-In mathematics:227 is a prime number, and a twin prime with 229 . 223 plus 4 is 227, so they are cousin primes...
), a cousin prime
Cousin prime
In mathematics, cousin primes are prime numbers that differ by four; compare this with twin primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by two, and sexy primes, pairs of prime numbers that differ by six....
, and a sexy prime
Sexy prime
In mathematics, a sexy prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by six. For example, the numbers 5 and 11 are both sexy primes, because they differ by 6...
. 229 is also a prime triplet
Prime triplet
In mathematics, a prime triplet is a set of three prime numbers of the form or...
(with 227
227 (number)
227 is the natural number between 226 and 228. It is also a prime number.-In mathematics:227 is a prime number, and a twin prime with 229 . 223 plus 4 is 227, so they are cousin primes...
and 233
233 (number)
233 is the natural number between 232 and 234. It is also a prime number.-In mathematics:233 is an irregular prime, a full reptend prime, a cousin prime, a Chen prime, a Fibonacci prime and a sexy prime. It is the 13th Fibonacci number. It is an Eisenstein prime of the form 3n - 1 with no...
).
In base 10, the smallest prime that added up to the reversal of its digits yields another prime is 229, since 229 + 922 = 1151 .
There exist 229 different projective configurations of type (123123), in which twelve points and twelve lines meet with three lines through each of the points and three points on each of the lines.
Trivia
In cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, 229 is the lowest individual batting score not achieved by any player in test match
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
cricket.