299 is the
natural number
In mathematics, the natural numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on, possibly excluding 0. Some start counting with 0, defining the natural numbers as the non-negative integers , while others start with 1, defining them as the positive in ...
following
298
Year 298 ( CCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Faustus and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 1051 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 298 for thi ...
and preceding
300
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Year 300 ( CCC) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1053 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 300 ...
.
In mathematics
*299 is an odd
composite number
A composite number is a positive integer that can be formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers. Accordingly it is a positive integer that has at least one divisor other than 1 and itself. Every positive integer is composite, prime numb ...
with two prime factors.
*299 is a
highly cototient number, meaning that it has more values for x-phi(x)= that number than any before it.
*299 is a
self number, meaning that it has 298
integer partitions
In number theory and combinatorics, a partition of a non-negative integer , also called an integer partition, is a way of writing as a sum of positive integers. Two sums that differ only in the order of their summands are considered the same ...
.
*299 is the twelfth
cake number, the maximum number of pieces to get from 12 slices of a cake.
*299 is a brilliant number meaning that it is the product of 2
primes with both having the same number of digits.
References
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