79 (NUMBER)

'79' ('seventy-nine') is the natural number following 78 and preceding 80.

Cardinal	79 seventy-nine
Ordinal	79th seventy-ninth
Factorization	prime
Divisors	1, 79
Roman numeral	LXXIX
Binary	1001111
Hexadecimal	4F

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In mathematics

In science

In other fields

In sports

In mathematics

'Seventy-nine' is the 22nd prime number. The next is eighty-three. Seventy-nine is a permutable prime, with ninety-seven. 79 is a Kynea number.
Since 23! + 1 is divisible by 79 but 79 is not one more than a multiple of 23, 79 is a Pillai prime. 79 is the smallest number that can't be represented as a sum of fewer than 19 fourth powers.
79 is a strictly non-palindromic number.

In science

★ The atomic number of gold.
'In astronomy',
: Messier object M79, a magnitude 8.5 globular cluster in the constellation Lepus
: The New General Catalogue object NGC 79, a galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
:The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -434 May 21 and ended on 828 June 16. The duration of Saros series 79 was 1262.1 years, and it contained 71 solar eclipses.
:The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -150 February 16 and ended on 1166 April 12. The duration of Saros series 79 was 1316.2 years, and it contained 74 lunar eclipses.

In other fields

'Seventy-nine' is also:

★ Live Seventy-Nine

★ The year AD '79', 79 BC, or 1979.

★ The designation of Interstate 79, a freeway that runs from West Virginia to Pennsylvania.

★ The number of '' episodes, not counting the first pilot, "The Cage", which was enclosed into "The Menagerie".

★ The number of recommendations in the Iraq Study Group Report.

★ Elvis Presley holds the Billboard record with 79 cumulative weeks at #1

★ Asa Long (1904-99) was the oldest United States checkers champion in 1984, at 79

★ Bobby Garza started slurrs of the number 79 on the Incarnate Word Academy (Corpus Christi, Texas) campus

In sports

★ Purdue football player Gene Mruczkowski wore 79
NHL

★ Montreal Canadiens Andrei Markov wears #79

★ New York Islanders Alexei Yashin wears #79

★ New York Giants Guy Whimper wears #79
NFL

★ Cincinnati Bengals Stacy Andrews wears #79

★ Dallas Cowboys Harvey Martin wore #79

★ Former Pittsburgh Steelers Oliver Ross wore 79

★ San Francisco 49ers Bob St. Clair wore #79