69 (number)

Template:Pp-vandalism Template:Good article Template:Infobox number 69 (sixty-nine) is the natural number following 68 and preceding 70. An odd number and a composite number, 69 is divisible by 1, 3, 23 and 69.

The number and its pictograph give its name to the sexual position of the same name. The association of the number with this sex position has resulted in it being associated in meme culture with sex.

In mathematics

69 is a semiprime because it is a natural number that is the product of exactly two prime numbers (3 and 23), and it is an interprime between the numbers of 67 and 71.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 is not divisible by any square number other than 1, making it a square-free integer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 is a Blum integer since the two factors of 69 are both Gaussian primes, and an Ulam number—an integer that is the sum of two distinct previously occurring Ulam numbers in a sequence.Template:Efn<ref name="Gupta"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 is a deficient number because the sum of its proper divisors (which excludes itself) is less than itself.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As an integer for which the arithmetic mean average of its positive divisors is also an integer, 69 is an arithmetic number.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 is a congruent number—a positive integer that is the area of a right triangle with three rational number sides—and an amenable number.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 can be expressed as the sum of consecutive positive integers in multiple ways, making it a polite number.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 69 is a lucky number because it is a natural number that remains after repeatedly removing every nth number in a sequence of natural numbers, starting from 1.Template:Efn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In decimal, 69 is the only natural number whose square (Template:Val) and cube (Template:Val) use every digit from 0–9 exactly once.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It is also the largest number whose factorial is less than a googol. On many handheld scientific and graphing calculators, 69! (1.711224524Template:E) is the highest factorial that can be calculated due to memory limitations.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In its binary expansion of 1000101,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 69 is equal to 105 octal, while 105 is equal to 69 hexadecimal (this same property can be applied to all numbers from 64 to 69).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Holmay">Template:Cite book</ref> In computing, 69 equates to 2120 in ternary (base-3); 153 in senary (base-6); and 59 in duodecimal (base-12).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Visually, in Arabic numerals, 69 is a strobogrammatic number because it looks the same when viewed both right-side and upside down.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 69 is a centered tetrahedral number, a figurate number that represents a pyramid with a triangular base and all other points arranged in layers above the base, forming a tetrahedron shape.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 69 is also a pernicious number because there is a prime number of 1s when it is written as a binary number, and an odious number as it is a positive integer that has an odd number of 1s in its binary expansion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In culture

69ing is a sex position wherein each partner aligns themselves to simultaneously achieve oral sex with each other.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In reference to this sex act, the number 69 itself has become an Internet meme as an inherently funny number in which users will respond to any occurrence of the number with the word "nice" to draw specific attention to it.<ref name="dyk"/> This means to humorously imply that the reference to the sex position was intentional. Because of its association with the sex position and resulting meme, 69 has been named "the sex number".<ref name="dyk">Template:Cite news</ref>

On American highways, "69 mile" marker signs are frequently stolen. As a result, the Colorado DOT began replacing them with "68.5 mile" ones.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• 6-7 (meme) – Internet meme
• 96 (number) – 69 reversed
• 420 (cannabis culture) – another slang term that has also led to street sign theft