999 (number)

This article is about the natural number. For the emergency telephone number, see 999 (emergency telephone number). For other uses, see 999 (disambiguation).

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

← 998 999 1000 →
List of numbers Integers ← 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 →
Cardinal	Nine hundred [and] ninety-nine
Ordinal	999th (Nine hundred [and] ninety-ninth)
Factorization	33 × 37
Divisors	1, 3, 9, 27, 37, 111, 333, 999
Greek numeral	ϠϞΘ´
Roman numeral	CMXCIX, cmxcix
Binary	11111001112
Ternary	11010003
Senary	43436
Octal	17478
Duodecimal	6B312
Hexadecimal	3E716
Base 36	RR36

Other fields

• In some parts of the world, such as the UK and Commonwealth countries, 999 (pronounced as 9-9-9) is the main emergency telephone number, it also functions in many other countries.
• 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 flipped upside down to resemble taking carnality and turning it upside down turning it into spirituality.“
• In many video games, 999 is the maximum score that can be displayed.