251 (number)

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Short description: Natural number
← 250 251 252 →
Cardinaltwo hundred fifty-one
Ordinal251st
(two hundred fifty-first)
Factorizationprime
Prime54th
Greek numeralΣΝΑ´
Roman numeralCCLI
Binary111110112
Ternary1000223
Quaternary33234
Quinary20015
Senary10556
Octal3738
Duodecimal18B12
HexadecimalFB16
VigesimalCB20
Base 366Z36

251 (two hundred [and] fifty-one) is the natural number between 250 and 252. It is also a prime number.

In mathematics

251 is:

  • a Sophie Germain prime.[1]
  • the sum of three consecutive primes (79 + 83 + 89) and seven consecutive primes (23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47).
  • a Chen prime.
  • an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part.
  • a de Polignac number, meaning that it is odd and cannot be formed by adding a power of two to a prime number.[2][3]
  • the smallest number that can be formed in more than one way by summing three positive cubes:[4][5][math]\displaystyle{ 251 = 2^3 + 3^3 + 6^3 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 5^3. }[/math]

Every 5 × 5 matrix has exactly 251 square submatrices.[6]

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