120 (number)

A hundred and twenty redirects here. This article is relating to number 120. For the year, to see 120.

120 ( A hundred and twenty ) is the Entier naturalness which follows 119 and which precedes 121. In the past, 120 was also called six-vingts , on the same model as eighty .

In the Anglo-Saxon countries, 120 was known like “large the hundred”, precisely before the year 1700, starting from the Teuton Hundert which was equal to 120. The number 100, now known commonly under the name “hundred” (one hundred) was known like “small the hundred”.

In mathematics

A hundred and twenty is:

a highly made up Number, and the Factorial of 5.
the nap of a couple of Prime numbers twins (59 + 61).
the sum of four consecutive prime numbers (23 + 29 + 31 + 37).
more the small number to appear six times in the Triangle of Pascal.
a Number Harshad.
a untouchable Number.
the eighth hexagonal Number.
the fifteenth triangular Number.
the sum of the eight first triangular numbers what makes a tetrahedral Nombre of it.

120 is divisible by the number of prime numbers lower than him, 30 is in this case.

But there does not exist Integer which has 120 for nap of its own dividers, which makes a untouchable Nombre of it.

Hundred twenty figure in the problem diophantien modified by Fermat like the greatest known entirety of continuation 1,3,8,120. Fermat wanted to find another entirety positive which multiplied with any other number of the continuation provides a number which is lower than a square. Euler sought also this number, but failed in its research, it found a number rational which meets the other conditions, $\ frac {777480} {28792^2} \,$ .

The interior angles of a regular Hexagone (where all with dimensions ones and all the angles are equal) are all of 120 degree S.

In other fields

A hundred and twenty is also:

a photographic format of Film intermediate introduced by Kodak in 1901 and always of use currently.
In Astrology, when two Planet S in the topic of a person are with 120 degrees one of the other, this is called a trine (?). This is supposed to bring chance in the life of the person.
the designation of certain minor roads of the Interstate 20, with the the United States;
historical Years: -120, 120.
the number of the food Dye natural E120 (red) called cochineal .
the maximum Speed authorized, expressed in Kilometer S by hour, on Highway S of some Country (Swiss Belgium, ,…).
One of the most insupportable novels ever written is unfinished the the 120 Days of Sodome of the Marquis de Sade.

Zh-yue: 120

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