149_(number)

149 (number)

149 (number)

Natural number


149 (one hundred [and] forty-nine) is the natural number between 148 and 150.

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In mathematics

149 is the 35th prime number, the first prime whose difference from the previous prime is exactly 10,[1] an emirp, and an irregular prime.[2] After 1 and 127, it is the third smallest de Polignac number, an odd number that cannot be represented as a prime plus a power of two.[3] More strongly, after 1, it is the second smallest number that is not a sum of two prime powers.[4]

It is a tribonacci number, being the sum of the three preceding terms, 24, 44, 81.[5]

There are exactly 149 integer points in a closed circular disk of radius 7,[6] and exactly 149 ways of placing six queens (the maximum possible) on a 5 × 5 chess board so that each queen attacks exactly one other.[7] The barycentric subdivision of a tetrahedron produces an abstract simplicial complex with exactly 149 simplices.[8]

See also


References

  1. Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "Sequence A001632 (Smallest prime p such that there is a gap of 2n between p and previous prime)". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation.
  2. Metsänkylä, Tauno (1976). "Distribution of irregular prime numbers". Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik. 1976 (282): 126–130. doi:10.1515/crll.1976.282.126. MR 0399014. S2CID 201061944.

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