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Cardinal | two hundred fifty-six | |||
Ordinal | 256th (two hundred fifty-sixth) |
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Factorization | 28 | |||
Roman numeral | CCLVI | |||
Binary | 1000000002 | |||
Ternary | 1001113 | |||
Quaternary | 100004 | |||
Quinary | 20115 | |||
Senary | 11046 | |||
Octal | 4008 | |||
Duodecimal | 19412 | |||
Hexadecimal | 10016 | |||
Vigesimal | CG20 | |||
Base 36 | 7436 |
256 (two hundred [and] fifty-six) is the natural number following 255 and preceding 257.
256 is a composite number, with the factorization 256 = 28, which makes it a power of two.
One octet (and in the most case one byte) is equal to eight bits and has 28 or 256 possible values, counting from 0 to 255. The number 256 often appears in computer applications (especially on 8-bit systems) such as:
256 is also: