242 (two hundred ndforty-two) is the

natural number In mathematics, the natural numbers are those numbers used for counting (as in "there are ''six'' coins on the table") and ordering (as in "this is the ''third'' largest city in the country"). Numbers used for counting are called ''cardinal ...

following

241 Year 241 ( CCXLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gordianus and Pompeianus by the Romans (or, less frequently, year 9 ...

and preceding 243.

In mathematics

242 is the smallest integer to start a run of four consecutive integers with the same number of divisors. 242 is a

nontotient In number theory, a nontotient is a positive integer ''n'' which is not a totient number: it is not in the range of Euler's totient function φ, that is, the equation φ(''x'') = ''n'' has no solution ''x''. In other words, ''n'' is a nontotien ...

since there is no integer with 242

coprime In mathematics, two integers and are coprime, relatively prime or mutually prime if the only positive integer that is a divisor of both of them is 1. Consequently, any prime number that divides does not divide , and vice versa. This is equivale ...

s below it. 242 is a palindrome. 242 is the number of parallelogram polyominoes with 8 cells.

In other fields

242 is also: * part of the name of a Belgian electronic body music group called Front 242 * the number of a notable UN Security Council resolution pertaining to the Arab/Israeli conflict,

United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (S/RES/242) was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967, in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. It was adopted under Chapter VI of the UN Charter. The resolution was spons ...

Area code 242 Area code 242 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for The Bahamas. Area code 242 translates to the letter sequence ''BHA'' on an alpha-numeric keypad. The numbering plan area (NPA) was created in a split of are ...

is the area code of

The Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...

located in the North West Atlantic Ocean. * Volvo 242 (2xx-series, 4-cylinder, 2-door) Produced from 1974 to 1984. *

Fiat 242 The Fiat 242 was a van which was produced by Fiat from 1974. Overview The Fiat 242 van was the result of a cooperation with Citroën and was sold under the name Citroën C35 in France. Both vehicles were produced in Italy till 1987 with Fiat ...

, a van produced by Fiat * the total number o
Power Stars
a player can collect in ''

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'' and ''

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'' for the Wii. * the orbit, in days, of

Kepler-69c Kepler-69c (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation ''KOI-172.02'') is a confirmed super-Earth extrasolar planet, likely rocky, orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-69, the outermore of two such planets discovered by NASA's ''Keple ...

, a planet 70 percent larger than the size of Earth, orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. Astronomers are uncertain about the composition of Kepler-69c, but its orbit of 242 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our neighboring planet Venus. * 2-4-2, a

Whyte notation Whyte notation is a classification method for steam locomotives, and some internal combustion locomotives and electric locomotives, by wheel arrangement. It was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte, and came into use in the early twentieth cen ...

classification of steam locomotive.

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