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3 4 5
−1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cardinal four
Ordinal 4th
(fourth)
Numeral system quaternary
Factorization 22
Divisors 1, 2, 4
Greek numeral Δ´
Roman numeral
Greek prefix tetra-
Latin prefix quadri-/quadr-
Binary 1002
Ternary 113
Senary 46
Octal 48
Duodecimal 412
Hexadecimal 416
Armenian Դ
Arabic, Kurdish ٤
Persian, Sindhi ۴
Shahmukhi, Urdu ۴
Ge'ez
Bengali, Assamese
Chinese numeral 四,亖,肆
Devanagari
Telugu
Malayalam
Tamil
Hebrew ד
Khmer
Thai
Kannada
Burmese
Babylonian numeral 𒐘
Egyptian hieroglyph, Chinese counting rod ||||
Maya numerals ••••
Morse code .... _

4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.

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Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit

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Two modern handwritten fours
Sculpted date "1481" in the Convent church of Maria Steinach in Algund, South Tirol, Italy. The upward loop signifies the number 4. Algund Dominikanerinnenklosterkirche Portal bezeichnet 1481 (cropped).jpg
Sculpted date "1481" in the Convent church of Maria Steinach in Algund, South Tirol, Italy. The upward loop signifies the number 4.

Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. [1]

While the shape of the character for the digit 4 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the glyph usually has a descender, as, for example, in TextFigs148.svg .

On the seven-segment displays of pocket calculators and digital watches, as well as certain optical character recognition fonts, 4 is seen with an open top: Seven-segment 4.svg . [2]

Television stations that operate on channel 4 have occasionally made use of another variation of the "open 4", with the open portion being on the side, rather than the top. This version resembles the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics letter ᔦ. The magnetic ink character recognition "CMC-7" font also uses this variety of "4". [3]

Mathematics

There are four elementary arithmetic operations in mathematics: addition (+), subtraction (), multiplication (×), and division (÷).[ citation needed ]

Lagrange's four-square theorem states that every positive integer can be written as the sum of at most four squares. [4] [5] Four is one of four all-Harshad numbers. Each natural number divisible by 4 is a difference of squares of two natural numbers, i.e. .

A four-sided plane figure is a quadrilateral or quadrangle, sometimes also called a tetragon. It can be further classified as a rectangle or oblong, kite, rhombus, and square.

Four is the highest degree general polynomial equation for which there is a solution in radicals. [6]

The four-color theorem states that a planar graph (or, equivalently, a flat map of two-dimensional regions such as countries) can be colored using four colors, so that adjacent vertices (or regions) are always different colors. [7] Three colors are not, in general, sufficient to guarantee this. [8] The largest planar complete graph has four vertices. [9]

A solid figure with four faces as well as four vertices is a tetrahedron, which is the smallest possible number of faces and vertices a polyhedron can have. [10] The regular tetrahedron, also called a 3-simplex, is the simplest Platonic solid. [11] It has four regular triangles as faces that are themselves at dual positions with the vertices of another tetrahedron. [12] The tetrahedron is one of three regular polyhedra that tessellate space.[ citation needed ]

The smallest non-cyclic group has four elements; it is the Klein four-group. [13] An alternating groups are not simple for values .

There are four Hopf fibrations of hyperspheres:

They are defined as locally trivial fibrations that map for values of (aside from the trivial fibration mapping between two points and a circle). [14]

In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. [15]

List of basic calculations

Multiplication 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425501001000
4 × x4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 96 100 200 400 4000
Division 12345678910111213141516
4 ÷ x4 2 1.310.80.60.5714280.50.40.40.360.30.3076920.2857140.260.25
x ÷ 40.250.50.7511.251.51.7522.252.52.7533.253.53.754
Exponentiation 12345678910111213141516
4x4 16 64 256 10244096163846553626214410485764194304167772166710886426843545610737418244294967296
x41 16 81256625129624014096656110000146412073628561384165062565536

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4 as a resin identification code, used in recycling

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Other groups of four

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