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9999 (number)

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9999
  
10000 →

Roman numeral
  
MXCMXCIX or IXCMXCIX

Factorization
  
3× 11 × 101

Binary
  
100111000011112

Cardinal
  
nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine

Ordinal
  
9999th (nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth)

Nine thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine (9999) is the natural number following 9998 and preceding 10000.

9999 is a Kaprekar number.

9999 can be used as a divisor to generate 4-digit decimal recurrences. For example, 1234 / 9999 = 0.123412341234... .

9999 is an auspicious number in Chinese folklore. Many estimations of the rooms contained the Forbidden City point to 9,999. Chinese tomb contracts often involved being buried with 9999 coins, relational notion to Joss paper, as it was believed the dead would need that amount to buy the burial plot from the Earth goddess.

9999 is also the emergency telephone number in Oman.

9999 was the last possible line number in some older programming languages such as BASIC. Often the line "9999 END" was the first line written for a new program.

The King of Fighters character K9999 has the number on his name, although it is read as "Kay-Four-Nine" /ˈkfɔərnn/

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