999 (nine hundred [and] ninety-nine or nine-nine-nine) is a natural number following 998 and preceding 1000. It is the largest 3-digit decimal integer.

← 998 999 1000 →
CardinalNine hundred [and] ninety-nine
Ordinal999th
(Nine hundred [and] ninety-ninth)
Factorization33 × 37
Divisors1, 3, 9, 27, 37, 111, 333, 999
Greek numeralϠϞΘ´
Roman numeralCMXCIX
Binary11111001112
Ternary11010003
Senary43436
Octal17478
Duodecimal6B312
Hexadecimal3E716

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Other fields

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  • In some parts of the world, such as the UK and Commonwealth countries, 999 (pronounced as 9-9-9) is the emergency telephone number.
  • 999 was a London punk band active during the 1970s.
  • 999 is also the short name for the visual novel Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.
  • 999 is the last 3 digit number. It is also the last number in English written without a comma, as numbers above 999 must require a comma (e.g. numbers starting from 1,000 or more).
  • 999 is the number the late rapper Juice WRLD chose as his moto, he explains it as "999 is 666 (the devil's number flipped upside down) to resemble taking a bad/unpleasant situation and turning it upside down turning it into a better situation."

References

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  1. ^ "Sloane's A006886 : Kaprekar numbers". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-06-02.