359 (number)

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Cardinal	three hundred fifty-nine
Ordinal	(three hundred fifty-ninth)
Factorization	prime
Prime	72nd
Greek numeral	Template:Greek numeral
Roman numeral	Template:Rn, Template:Rn
Binary	1011001112
Ternary	1110223
Senary	13556
Octal	5478
Duodecimal	25B12
Hexadecimal	16716

359 (three hundred [and] fifty-nine) is the natural number following 358 and preceding 360. 359 is the 72nd prime number.

In mathematics

• 359 is a Sophie Germain prime: $2(359)+1=719$ (also a Sophie Germain prime).
• It is also a safe prime, because subtracting 1 and halving it gives another prime number (179, itself also safe).
• Since the reversal of its digits gives 953, which is prime, it is also an emirp.
• 359 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and a Chen prime.
• It is a strictly non-palindromic number.

In other fields

• According to the author Douglas Adams, 359 is the funniest three-digit number.
• The international calling code for Bulgaria
• The IATA code for the Airbus A350-900 aircraft