359 (number)

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359 (three hundred [and] fifty-nine) is the natural number following 358 and preceding 360. 359 is the 72nd prime number.

• 359 is a Sophie Germain prime: ${\displaystyle 2(359)+1=719}$ (also a Sophie Germain prime).
• It is also a safe prime, because subtracting 1 and halving it gives another prime number (179, itself also safe).
• Since the reversal of its digits gives 953, which is prime, it is also an emirp.
• 359 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part^[1] and a Chen prime.^[2]
• It is a strictly non-palindromic number.^[3]

• According to the author Douglas Adams, 359 is the funniest three-digit number.^[4]