Roman numeral N/A | Ternary 1020020222012211112103 | |
Cardinal four billion two hundred ninety-four million nine hundred sixty-seven thousand two hundred ninety-five Ordinal 4294967295th
(four billion two hundred ninety-four million nine hundred sixty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-fifth) Factorization 3 × 5 × 17 × 257 × 65537 Binary 111111111111111111111111111111112 | ||
The number 4,294,967,295 is an integer equal to 232 − 1. It is a perfect totient number. It is following 4,294,967,294 and preceding by 4,294,967,296. It has a factorization of
In computing
The number 4,294,967,295, equivalent to the hexadecimal value FFFF,FFFF16, is the maximum value for a 32-bit unsigned integer in computing. It is therefore the maximum value for a variable declared as an unsigned integer (unsigned, unsigned int, or unsigned long int) in many programming languages running on modern computers. The presence of the value may reflect an error, overflow condition, or missing value.
This value is also the largest memory address for CPUs using a 32-bit address bus. Being an odd value, its appearance may reflect an erroneous (misaligned) memory address. Such a value may also be used as a sentinel value to initialize newly allocated memory for debugging purposes.