53 (number)

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Short description: Natural number
← 52 53 54 →
Cardinalfifty-three
Ordinal53rd
(fifty-third)
Factorizationprime
Prime16th
Divisors1, 53
Greek numeralΝΓ´
Roman numeralLIII
Binary1101012
Ternary12223
Quaternary3114
Quinary2035
Senary1256
Octal658
Duodecimal4512
Hexadecimal3516
Vigesimal2D20
Base 361H36

53 (fifty-three) is the natural number following 52 and preceding 54. It is the 16th prime number.

In mathematics

  • Fifty-three is the 16th prime number. It is also an Eisenstein prime, an isolated prime, a balanced prime and a Sophie Germain prime.[1]
  • The sum of the first 53 primes is 5830, which is divisible by 53, a property shared by only a few other numbers.[2][3]
  • 53 cannot be expressed as the sum of any integer and its decimal digits, making 53 a self number.[4]
  • 53 is the smallest prime number that does not divide the order of any sporadic group.

In science

Astronomy

In other fields

Fifty-three is:

Herbie film car used in the 1977 Disney film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
  • The racing number of Herbie, a fictional Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of his own, first appearing in the 1968 film The Love Bug
  • The code for international direct dial phone calls to Cuba
  • 53 Days is a northeastern US rock band
  • 53 Days a novel by Georges Perec
  • In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and its animated TV special adaptation, the Grinch says he has put up with the Whos' Christmas cheer for 53 years.
  • Fictional 53rd Precinct in the Bronx was found in the TV comedy "Car 54, Where Are You?"
  • "53rd & 3rd" a song by the Ramones
  • The number of Hail Mary beads on a standard, five decade Catholic Rosary (the Dominican Rosary).[5]
  • The number of bytes in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode packet.
  • UDP and TCP port number for the Domain Name System protocol.
  • 53-TET (53 tone, equal temperament) is a musical temperament that has a fifth that is closer to pure than our current system.
  • 53 More Things To Do In Zero Gravity is a fictional book mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sports

  • The maximum number of players on a National Football League roster
  • Most points by a rookie in an NBA playoff game, by Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain, 1960
  • Most field goals (three-game series, NBA playoffs), by Michael Jordan, 1992

See also

  • List of highways numbered 53

References