1 (number)

← 0 1 2 →
-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 →
Cardinalone, unit, unity
Ordinal1st
(first)
Numeral systemunary
Factorization1
Divisors1
Greek numeralΑ´
Roman numeralI
Roman numeral (unicode)Ⅰ, ⅰ
Greek prefixmono- /haplo-
Latin prefixuni-
Binary12
Ternary13
Quaternary14
Quinary15
Senary16
Octal18
Duodecimal112
Hexadecimal116
Vigesimal120
Base 36136
Greek numeralα'
Persian١ - یک
Arabic١
Urdu
Ge'ez፩
Bengali & Assamese১
Chinese numeral一,弌,壹
Korean일, 하나
Devanāgarī१
Telugu೧
Tamil௧
Kannada೧
Hebrewא (alef)
Khmer១
Thai๑
Malayalam൧
Counting rod𝍠
Chinese hand sign
Pronunciation of the number 1.

One (1) is the first natural number, followed by two, then followed by three. The Roman numeral for one is I.

Babylonian number 1


Mathematics

In mathematics, the number one is the multiplicative identity. It is also the only number for which these special facts are true:

In mathematics, 0.999... is a repeating decimal that is equal to 1. Many proofs have been made to show this is correct.

Computer science

One is important for computer science, because the binary numeral system uses only ones and zeroes to represent numbers. In machine code and many programming languages, one means "true" (or "yes") and zero means "false" (or "no").

Other meanings

References

  1. ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "1". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  2. ↑ Byers, William (2007). How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics. Princeton UP. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-0-691-12738-5.
  3. ↑ Richman, Fred (December 1999). "Is 0.999... = 1?". Mathematics Magazine. 72 (5): 396–400. doi:10.2307/2690798. JSTOR 2690798. Free HTML preprint: Richman, Fred (June 1999). "Is 0.999... = 1?". Archived from the original on 2 September 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2006. Note: the journal article contains material and wording not found in the preprint.