239 (number)

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238 239 240
Cardinal two hundred thirty-nine
Ordinal 239th
(two hundred thirty-ninth)
Factorization prime
Prime yes
Greek numeral ΣΛΘ´
Roman numeral CCXXXIX
Binary 111011112
Ternary 222123
Senary 10356
Octal 3578
Duodecimal 17B12
Hexadecimal EF16

239 (two hundred [and] thirty-nine) is the natural number following 238 and preceding 240.

239 is a prime number. The next is 241, with which it forms a pair of twin primes; hence, it is also a Chen prime. 239 is a Sophie Germain prime and a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime. [1] It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n  1 (with no exponentiation implied). 239 is also a happy number.

239 is the smallest positive integer d such that the imaginary quadratic field Q(d) has class number = 15. [2]

HAKMEM (incidentally AI memo 239 of the MIT AI Lab) included an item on the properties of 239, including these: [3]

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References

  1. Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "SequenceA088165(NSW primes)". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences . OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
  2. "Tables of imaginary quadratic fields with small class number". numbertheory.org.
  3. "Beeler, M., Gosper, R.W., and Schroeppel, R. HAKMEM. MIT AI Memo 239, Feb. 29, 1972. Retyped and converted to html by Henry Baker, April, 1995".
  4. Weisstein, Eric W. "239". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  5. Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "SequenceA157017". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences . OEIS Foundation.