2
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Cardinal | two | |||
Ordinal | 2nd (second / twoth) | |||
Numeral system | binary | |||
Factorization | prime | |||
Gaussian integer factorization | ||||
Prime | 1st | |||
Divisors | 1, 2 | |||
Greek numeral | Β´ | |||
Roman numeral | II, ii | |||
Greek prefix | di- | |||
Latin prefix | duo-/bi- | |||
Old English prefix | twi- | |||
Binary | 102 | |||
Ternary | 23 | |||
Senary | 26 | |||
Octal | 28 | |||
Duodecimal | 212 | |||
Hexadecimal | 216 | |||
Greek numeral | β' | |||
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, Sindhi, Urdu | ٢ | |||
Ge'ez | ፪ | |||
Bengali | ২ | |||
Chinese numeral | 二,弍,貳 | |||
Devanāgarī | २ | |||
Telugu | ౨ | |||
Tamil | ௨ | |||
Kannada | ೨ | |||
Hebrew | ב | |||
Armenian | Բ | |||
Khmer | ២ | |||
Maya numerals | •• | |||
Thai | ๒ | |||
Georgian | Ⴁ/ⴁ/ბ(Bani) | |||
Malayalam | ൨ | |||
Babylonian numeral | 𒐖 | |||
Egyptian hieroglyph, Aegean numeral, Chinese counting rod | || | |||
Morse code | .._ _ _ |
2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the only even prime number.
Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.
As a word
Two is most commonly a determiner used with plural countable nouns, as in two days or I'll take these two.[1] Two is a noun when it refers to the number two as in two plus two is four.
Etymology of two
The word two is derived from the Old English words twā (feminine), tū (neuter), and twēġen (masculine, which survives today in the form twain).[2]
The pronunciation /tuː/, like that of who is due to the labialization of the vowel by the w, which then disappeared before the related sound. The successive stages of pronunciation for the Old English twā would thus be /twɑː/, /twɔː/, /twoː/, /twuː/, and finally /tuː/.[2]
Characterizations of the number
Parity
An integer is determined to be even if it is divisible by two. For integers written in a numeral system based on an even number such as decimal, divisibility by two is easily tested by merely looking at the last digit. If it is even, then the whole number is even. When written in the decimal system, all multiple of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.[3]
1 is neither prime nor composite yet odd. 0, which is an origin to the integers in the real line, especially when considered alongside negative integers, is neither prime nor composite, however it is distinctively even (as a multiple of two) since if it were to be odd, then for some integer there would be that yields a of , which is a contradiction (however, for a function, the zero function is the only function to both be even and odd).
Primality
2 is the smallest and the only even prime number. As the smallest prime number, two is also the smallest non-zero pronic number, and the only pronic prime.[4]
The divisor function
Every integer greater than 1 will have at least two distinct factors; by definition, a prime number only has two distinct factors (itself and 1). Therefore, the number-of-divisors function of positive integers satisfies, where represents the limit inferior (since there will always exist a larger prime number with a maximum of two divisors).[5] Aside from square numbers and prime powers raised to an even exponent, or integers that are the product of an even number of prime powers with even exponents, an integer will have a that is a multiple of . The two smallest natural numbers have unique properties in this regard: is the only number with a single divisor (itself), where on the other hand, is the only number to have an infinite number of divisors, since dividing zero by any strictly positive or negative integer yields (i.e., aside from division of zero by zero, ).
is the only set of numbers whose distinct divisors (with more than one) are also consecutive integers, when excluding negative integers.
Twin primes
Meanwhile, the numbers two and three are the only two prime numbers that are consecutive integers. Two is the smallest isolated prime, i.e., the first prime number that is not a twin prime.[6][7] Because two has more divisors than any smaller positive integer, it is a highly composite number,[8] being the only number that is both prime and highly composite.
Twin primes are the smallest type of prime k-tuples, that represent patterns of repeating differences between prime numbers. A difference of two in prime k-tuples exists inside prime quintuplets, and in some types of prime triplets and prime quadruplets (etc.).[citation needed]
Ramanujan prime
is the first Ramanujan prime satisfying where is the prime-counting function, equal to the number of primes less than or equal to .[9]
Set theory and topology
A set that is a field has a minimum of two elements. In a set-theoretical construction of the natural numbers , two is identified with the set , where denotes the empty set. This latter set is important in category theory: it is a subobject classifier in the category of sets. With two identified with , can be identified with the power set of set S, and holds for any cardinal number κ; this is the content of Cantor's theorem.
A Cantor space is a topological space homeomorphic to the Cantor set, whose general set is a closed set consisting purely of boundary points. The countably infinite product topology of the simplest discrete two-point space, , is the traditional elementary example of a Cantor space. Points whose initial conditions remain on a boundary in the logistic map form a Cantor set, where values begin to diverge beyond Between and , the population approaches oscillations among values before chaos ensues.
In classes of numbers
Powers of 2
Powers of two are essential in computer science, and important in the constructability of regular polygons using basic tools (e.g., through the use of Fermat or Pierpont primes). is the only number such that the sum of the reciprocals of its natural powers equals itself. In symbols,
Two also has the unique property that up through any level of hyperoperation, here denoted in Knuth's up-arrow notation, all equivalent to
Notably, row sums in Pascal's triangle are in equivalence with successive powers of two, [10][11] Two is the first Mersenne prime exponent, and it is the difference between the first two Fermat primes (3 and 5).
Perfect numbers
A number is perfect if it is equal to its aliquot sum, or the sum of all of its positive divisors excluding the number itself. This is equivalent to describing a perfect number as having a sum of divisors equal to The harmonic mean of the divisors of — the smallest perfect number, unitary perfect number, and Ore number greater than — is . Two itself is the smallest primary pseudoperfect number such that the reciprocal of plus the sum of reciprocals of prime factors of is [12] There are only two known sublime numbers, which are numbers with a perfect number of factors, whose sum itself yields a perfect number:[13]
The latter is a number that is seventy-six digits long (in decimal representation).
Deficient and abundant numbers
Otherwise, a number is deficient when the sum of its divisors is less than twice the number, whereas an abundant number has a sum of its proper divisors that is larger than the number itself. Primitive abundant numbers are abundant numbers whose proper divisors are all deficient.
In other sequences
- The sum of the reciprocals of all non-zero triangular numbers converges to 2.[14]
- Numbers also cannot be laid out in a magic square that yields a magic constant, and as such they are the only null by magic square set.[15]
- Every number is polygonal by being -gonal (i.e., a natural number), as well as the root of some type of -gonal number. For , being -gonal and -gonal is the same, which make two the only number that is polygonal in only one way.
- In John Conway's look-and-say function, which can be represented faithfully with a quaternary numeral system, two consecutive twos (as in "22" for "two twos"), or equivalently "2 - 2", is the only fixed point.[16]
- A continued fraction for repeats a pattern from the second term onward.[17][18]
- In the smallest Cunningham chains of nearly doubled primes (of the first and second kind) two is the first member, as part of the sets and .
Regarding Bernouilli numbers , by convention has an irregularity of [19] Two is also the first number to return zero for the Mertens function.[20]
Binary numbers
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The binary system has a radix of two, and it is the numeral system with the fewest tokens that allows denoting a natural number substantially more concisely (with tokens) than a direct representation by the corresponding count of a single token (with tokens). This number system is used extensively in computing.[21]
Thue-Morse sequence
In the Thue-Morse sequence , that successively adjoins the binary Boolean complement from onward (in succession), the critical exponent, or largest number of times an adjoining subsequence repeats, is , where there exist a vast amount of square words of the form [22] Furthermore, in , which counts the instances of between consecutive occurrences of in that is instead square-free, the critical exponent is also , since contains factors of exponents close to due to containing a large factor of squares.[23] In general, the repetition threshold of an infinite binary-rich word will be [24]
In geometry
In a Euclidean space of any dimension greater than zero, two distinct points in a plane are always sufficient to define a unique line.[25]
A digon is a polygon with two sides (or edges) and two vertices.[26]: 52
Regarding regular polygons in two dimensions:
- In an equilateral triangle, the ratio of the circumradius to the inradius equals 2. This is the smallest circumradius-inradius ratio of any triangle, by Euler's inequality.[27]
- The long diagonal of a regular hexagon is of length 2 when its sides are of unit length.[28]
- The span of an octagon is in silver ratio with its sides, which can be computed with the continued fraction [29]
Whereas a square of unit side length has a diagonal equal to , a space diagonal inside a tesseract measures 2 when its side lengths are of unit length.[citation needed]
For any polyhedron homeomorphic to a sphere, the Euler characteristic is , where is the number of vertices, is the number of edges, and is the number of faces.[26]: 37
The simplest tessellation in two-dimensional space, though an improper tessellation, is that of two -sided apeirogons joined along all their edges, coincident about a line that divides the plane in two. This order-2 apeirogonal tiling is the arithmetic limit of the family of dihedra .[citation needed] The second dimension is also the only dimension where there are both an infinite number of Euclidean and hyperbolic regular polytopes (as polygons), and an infinite number of regular hyperbolic paracompact tesselations.
List of basic calculations
Multiplication | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 50 | 100 |
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2 × x | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 100 | 200 |
Division | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
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2 ÷ x | 2 | 1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.285714 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.153846 | 0.142857 | 0.13 | 0.125 | 0.1176470588235294 | 0.1 | 0.105263157894736842 | 0.1 | |
x ÷ 2 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.5 | 5 | 5.5 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 7.5 | 8 | 8.5 | 9 | 9.5 | 10 |
Exponentiation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
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2x | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 | 128 | 256 | 512 | 1024 | 2048 | 4096 | 8192 | 16384 | 32768 | 65536 | 131072 | 262144 | 524288 | 1048576 | |
x2 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 36 | 49 | 64 | 81 | 100 | 121 | 144 | 169 | 196 | 225 | 256 | 289 | 324 | 361 | 400 |
Evolution of the Arabic digit
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The digit used in the modern Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Indic Brahmic script, where "2" was written as two horizontal lines. The modern Chinese and Japanese languages (and Korean Hanja) still use this method. The Gupta script rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal. The top line was sometimes also shortened and had its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line. In the Nagari script, the top line was written more like a curve connecting to the bottom line. In the Arabic Ghubar writing, the bottom line was completely vertical, and the digit looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern digit.[30]
In fonts with text figures, digit 2 usually is of x-height, for example, .[citation needed]
In science
- The number of polynucleotide strands in a DNA double helix.[31]
- The first magic number.[32]
- The atomic number of helium.[33]
See also
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