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46 (number)

46 is the natural number following 45 and preceding 47.

List of numbers — Integers << 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 >>
Cardinal	forty-six
Ordinal	46th (forty-sixth)
Factorization
Roman numeral	XLVI
Binary	101110
Hexadecimal	2E

In mathematics

Forty-six is a Wedderburn-Etherington number and a nonagonal number.

In other fields

Forty-six is also:

• The number of human chromosomes.
• The atomic number of palladium.
• The total of books in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible in the Catholic version if the Book of Lamentations is counted as a book separate from the Book of Jeremiah.
• The code for direct dial international phone calls to Sweden.
• Part of the title Forty-Six Lives, a translation by Henry Parker and Lord Morley of Boccaccio's play De claris mulieribus.
• The number of mountains in the 46 peaks of the Adirondak mountain range. People who have climbed all of them are called "forty-sixers"; there is also an unofficial 47th peak.
• The number of samurai, out of 47, who carried out the attack in the historical Ako vendetta; sometimes referred to as the 46 Ronin to discount the one samurai forced to turn back.
• The year AD 46, 46 BC, and 1946.

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