227 (two hundred
ndtwenty-seven) is the natural number following
226 and preceding
228. It is also a
prime number
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a Product (mathematics), product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime ...
.
In mathematics
227 is a
twin prime
A twin prime is a prime number that is either 2 less or 2 more than another prime number—for example, either member of the twin prime pair or In other words, a twin prime is a prime that has a prime gap of two. Sometimes the term ''twin prime' ...
, and the start of a
prime triplet. 227 is a
safe prime, a
regular prime, a
Pillai prime, a
Stern prime, and a
Ramanujan prime.
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Integers
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