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Cardinal | two | |||
Ordinal | 2nd (second / ) | |||
Numeral system | binary | |||
Factorization | prime | |||
Gaussian integer factorization | ||||
Prime | 1st | |||
Divisors | 1, 2 | |||
Roman numeral | II | |||
Roman numeral (unicode) | Ⅱ, ⅱ | |||
Greek prefix | ||||
Latin prefix | ||||
Old English prefix | ||||
Binary | 102 | |||
Ternary | 23 | |||
Quaternary | 24 | |||
Quinary | 25 | |||
Senary | 26 | |||
Octal | 28 | |||
Duodecimal | 212 | |||
Hexadecimal | 216 | |||
Vigesimal | 220 | |||
Base 36 | 236 | |||
Greek numeral | β' | |||
Arabic & Kurdish | ٢ | |||
Urdu | ||||
Ge'ez | ፪ | |||
Bengali | ২ | |||
Chinese numeral | 二,弍,贰,貳 | |||
Devanāgarī | २ (do) | |||
Telugu | ౨ | |||
Tamil | ௨ | |||
Hebrew | ב (Bet) | |||
Khmer | ២ | |||
Korean | 이,둘 | |||
Thai | ๒ |
2 (Two; i/ˈtuː/) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3.
The number two has many properties in mathematics. An integer is called even if it is divisible by 2. For integers written in a numeral system based on an even number, such as decimal and hexadecimal, divisibility by 2 is easily tested by merely looking at the last digit. If it is even, then the whole number is even. In particular, when written in the decimal system, all multiples of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8. In numeral systems based on an odd number, divisibility by 2 can be tested by having a digital root that is even.
Two is the smallest and first prime number, and the only even prime number (for this reason it is sometimes called "the oddest prime"). The next prime is three. Two and three are the only two consecutive prime numbers. 2 is the first Sophie Germain prime, the first factorial prime, the first Lucas prime, the first Ramanujan prime, and the first Smarandache-Wellin prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. It is also a Stern prime, a Pell number, the first Fibonacci prime, and a Markov number—appearing in infinitely many solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation involving odd-indexed Pell numbers.