Three hundred [and] eighty four is an even composite positive integer.

Numbers_300-400
Ordinal Ordinal number In set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals...	384th
Cardinal Cardinal number In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number – the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite...	Three hundred [and] eighty four
Factorization Factorization In mathematics, factorization or factoring is the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original...
Roman numeral Roman numerals The numeral system of ancient Rome, or Roman numerals, uses combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values. The numbers 1 to 10 can be expressed in Roman numerals as:...	CCCLXXXIV
Binary Binary numeral system The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual base-2 system is a positional notation with a radix of 2...	110000000
Hexadecimal Hexadecimal In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen...	180

In mathematics

The prime factors of 384 are 2 (seven times) and 3.
384 is

• the sum of a twin prime
  Twin prime
  A twin prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by two. Except for the pair , this is the smallest possible difference between two primes. Some examples of twin prime pairs are , , , , and...
  
   (191 + 193).
• the sum of six consecutive primes (53 + 59 + 61 + 67 + 71 + 73).
• the sum of two consecutive powers of two (128 + 256).
• the order of the hyperoctahedral group
  Hyperoctahedral group
  In mathematics, a hyperoctahedral group is an important type of group that can be realized as the group of symmetries of a hypercube or of a cross-polytope. Groups of this type are identified by a parameter n, the dimension of the hypercube....
  
   for n = 4
• the double factorial of 8.
• the number of Jain squares (because it is 4!*16).
• an abundant number.
• the third 129-agonal number after 1, 129
  129 (number)
  129 is the natural number following 128 and preceding 130.-In mathematics:129 is the sum of the first ten prime numbers...
  
   and before 766 and 1275.

Computing

Being a low multiple of a power of two

Power of two

In mathematics, a power of two means a number of the form 2n where n is an integer, i.e. the result of exponentiation with as base the number two and as exponent the integer n....

, 384 occurs often in the field of computing.
For example the digest length of the secure hash function SHA-384, the screen resolution of Virtual Boy

Virtual Boy

The was a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box. Whereas most video games use monocular cues to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional...

 is 384x224, MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 Audio layer 1 encoding is 384 kibps, in 3G

3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

 phones the WAN

Wide area network

A wide area network is a telecommunication network that covers a broad area . Business and government entities utilize WANs to relay data among employees, clients, buyers, and suppliers from various geographical locations...

 implementation of CDMA

Code division multiple access

Code division multiple access is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards called cdmaOne, CDMA2000 and WCDMA , which are often referred to as simply CDMA, and use CDMA as an underlying channel access...

 is up to 384 kbit/s.

In other fields

• The year 384
  384
  Year 384 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ricomer and Clearchus...
  
   AD.
• The year 384 BC
  384 BC
  Year 384 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cornelius, Poplicola, Camillus, Rufus, Crassus and Capitolinus...
  
  .
• The Jewish year
  Hebrew calendar
  The Hebrew calendar , or Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of Torah portions, yahrzeits , and daily Psalm reading, among many ceremonial uses...
  
   can be 384 days long.
• The Thai lunar calendar
  Thai lunar calendar
  The Thai lunar calendar , or Dai calendar , Tai calendar, is Thailand's version of the lunisolar Buddhist calendar used in the southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos and Burma, for calculating lunar-regulated holy days...
  
   can be 384 days long.
• 384 is the ISO 3166-1 numeric
  ISO 3166-1 numeric
  ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are three-digit country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
  
   code for Côte d'Ivoire
  Côte d'Ivoire
  The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...
  
  .
• Asteroid 384 Burdigala
  384 Burdigala
  384 Burdigala is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by F. Courty on February 11, 1894 in Bordeaux. It was the first of his two asteroid discoveries. The other was 387 Aquitania. Burdigala is the Latin name of the city of Bordeaux....
  
  .
• The number of lines in the I Ching
  I Ching
  The I Ching or "Yì Jīng" , also known as the Classic of Changes, Book of Changes and Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts...
  
    (64x6).
• Interstate 384
  Interstate 384
  Interstate 384 is an Interstate Highway located entirely within the state of Connecticut. It runs east to west, going from Interstate 84 in East Hartford to U.S. Route 6/U.S...
  
   in the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  .
• USS Parche (SS-384)
  USS Parche (SS-384)
  The first USS Parche was a United States Navy submarine. She bore the name of a butterfly fish, Chaetodon capistratus....
  
   was a US submarine in the 20th century
  20th century
  Many people define the 20th century as running from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 2000, others would rather define it as beginning on January 1, 1900....
  
  
• The apogee of the expeditions to the International Space Station
  Expedition 1
  Expedition 1, or Expedition One, was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station . The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from November 2000 to March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the station which still continues, as of...
  
  is generally 384 km.

External links

• http://www.positiveintegers.org/384
• http://www.virtuescience.com/384.html