512 (number)
512 (five hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
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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 | |||
Octal | 10008 | |||
Duodecimal | 36812 | |||
Hexadecimal | 20016 |
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.
gollark: I mean, it's "unique" inasmuch as it's not exactly the same as every other star in some way, but... so are you, and also me.
gollark: There are billions of G-class stars.
gollark: The sun isn't unique.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393> is not a vampire. Probably.
gollark: 3, actually.
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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