- 79 (number)
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79 Cardinal seventy-nine Ordinal 79th
(seventy-ninth)Numeral system 79 Prime 22nd Divisors 1, 79 Roman numeral LXXIX Binary 10011112 Octal 1178 Duodecimal 6712 Hexadecimal 4F16 Seventy-nine is the natural number following 78 and preceding 80.[citation needed]
79 may represent:
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In mathematics
- An odd number
- The smallest number that can't be represented as a sum of fewer than 19 fourth powers
- A strictly non-palindromic number
- The 22nd prime number (the next is 83)
- The smallest prime number p for which the real quadratic field Q[√p] has class number greater than 1 (namely 3)[1]
- A cousin prime with 83
- An emirp, because the reverse of 79, 97, is also a prime
- A fortunate prime
- A prime number that is also a Gaussian prime (since it is of the form 4n + 3)
- A happy prime
- A Higgs prime
- A Kynea prime ((2n + 1)2 − 2)
- A lucky prime
- A permutable prime, with ninety-seven
- A Pillai prime, because 23! + 1 is divisible by 79, but 79 is not one more than a multiple of 23
- A regular prime
- A prime in a residue classes 4n+3, 8n+7, and 10n+9
- A right-truncatable prime, because when the last digit (9) is removed, the remaining number (7) is still prime
- A sexy prime (with 73)
- The n value of the Wagstaff prime 201487636602438195784363
In science
The atomic number of the chemical element gold (Au) is 79.
In astronomy
- Messier object 79 (M79), a magnitude 8.5 globular cluster in the constellation Lepus
- New General Catalogue object 79 (NGC 79), a galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
- Saros series 79, which began on -434 May 21 and ended on 828 June 16, lasting 1262.1 years, and with 71 lunar eclipses
- Saros series 79, which began on -150 February 16 and ended on 1166 April 12, lasting 1316.2 years, and with 74 lunar eclipses
In other fields
- Live Seventy Nine, an album by Hawkwind
- The years 79 AD (or CE), 79 BC(E), or 1979
- The designation of Interstate 79, a freeway that runs from West Virginia to Pennsylvania.
- The number of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes (not counting the first pilot, "The Cage", which was enclosed into "The Menagerie")
- The number of recommendations in the Iraq Study Group Report
- The record cumulative weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts, held by Elvis Presley
- The age of Asa Long (1904-99) when she became the oldest United States checkers champion (1984)
- The cost in pence of one song from the UK iTunes Store
- The number of the French department Deux-Sèvres
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