512 (number)
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| Cardinal | five hundred twelve | |||
| Ordinal | 512th (five hundred twelfth) | |||
| Factorization | 29 | |||
| Greek numeral | ΦΙΒ´ | |||
| Roman numeral | DXII | |||
| Binary | 10000000002 | |||
| Ternary | 2002223 | |||
| Senary | 22126 | |||
| Octal | 10008 | |||
| Duodecimal | 36812 | |||
| Hexadecimal | 20016 | |||
512 (five hundred [and] twelve) 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.
It is the eleventh Leyland number.[1]
512 is also the third Dudeney number.
Special use in computers
512 bytes is a common disk 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 buffers when coupled with the message-separating CRLF sequence.[2]
512 = 2·256 is the highest number of glyphs that the VGA character generator can use simultaneously.
In music
Lamb of God recorded the song titled "512" for their 2015 album VII: Sturm und Drang.
References
- ^ "Sloane's A076980 : Leyland numbers". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ RFC 1459, section 2.3
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