179 (number)

179 is the natural number between 178 and 180. It is also a prime number.

Ordinal	One hundred [and] seventy-nine
Cardinal	179th
Factorization	prime number
Roman numeral	CLXXIX
Binary	10110011
Hexadecimal	B3

In mathematics

179 is a prime number, and both a Sophie Germain prime and a safe prime, being the second term in the smallest Cunningham chain of the first kind that is six terms long, preceded by 89 and followed by 359.

179 is a twin prime with 181, making 179 a Chen prime. Since 179 is one less than a multiple of three, it is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part.

179 is a strictly non-palindromic number, it is not palindromic in binary or any base up to base 177.