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2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the
only even prime number. ←1 2 3→
−1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 →
Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures. List of numbers · Integers
← 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 →
Cardinal two

Mathematics Ordinal 2nd (second)

Numeral system binary
The number 2 is the second natural number, after 1. Each natural number, including 2, is constructed by succession, that Factorization prime
is, by adding 1 to the previous natural number.[1] 2 is the smallest and the only even prime number, and the first Gaussian integer factorization
Ramanujan prime.[2] It is also the first superior highly composite number,[3] and the first colossally abundant number.[4] Prime 1st
Divisors 1, 2
An integer is determined to be even if it is divisible by two. When written in base 10, all multiples of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, Greek numeral Β´
or 8;[5] more generally, in any even base, even numbers will end with an even digit. Roman numeral II, ii
Greek prefix di-
A digon is a polygon with two sides (or edges) and two vertices.[6]:52 Two distinct points in a plane are always sufficient to
Latin prefix duo-/bi-
define a unique line in a nontrivial Euclidean space.[7]
Old English prefix twi-
A set that is a field has a minimum of two elements.[8] Binary 102
Ternary 23
Binary is a number system with a base of two, it is used extensively in computing.[9] Senary 26
Octal 28
List of basic calculations Duodecimal 212
Hexadecimal 216
Multiplication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 25 50 100 1000 Greek numeral β'
2*x 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 40 50 100 200 2000 Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, ٢
Sindhi, Urdu
Ge'ez ፪
Bengali ২
Chinese numeral 二，弍，貳
Devanāgarī २
Santali ᱒
Tamil ௨
Kannada ೨
Hebrew ‫ב‬
Armenian Բ
Khmer ២
Maya numerals ••
Thai ๒
Georgian Ⴁ/ⴁ/ბ(Bani)
Malayalam ൨
Babylonian numeral 𒐖
Egyptian hieroglyph, Aegean ||
numeral, Chinese counting rod
Morse code .._ _ _
Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

2÷x 2 1 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.285714 0.25 0.2 0.2 0.18 0.16 0.153846 0.142857 0.13 0.125 0.1176470588235294 0.1 0.105263157894736842 0.1

x÷2 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10

Exponentiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

2x 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072 262144 524288 1048576

x2 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 121 144 169 196 225 256 289 324 361 400

As a word
Two is most commonly a determiner used with plural countable nouns, as in two days or I'll take these two.[10] Two is a noun when it refers to the number two as in
two plus two is four.

The word two is derived from the Old English words twā (feminine), tū (neuter), and twēġen (masculine, which survives today in the form twain).[11]

Evolution of the Arabic digit

The digit used in the modern Western world to represent the number 2 traces its roots back to the Indic Brahmic script, where "2" was
written as two horizontal lines. The modern Chinese and Japanese languages (and Korean Hanja) still use this method. The Gupta script
rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making them diagonal. The top line was sometimes also shortened and had its bottom end curve towards

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the center of the bottom line. In the Nagari script, the top line was written more like a curve connecting to the bottom line. In the Arabic Ghubar writing, the bottom line
was completely vertical, and the digit looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top line as
a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our modern digit.[12]

In science
The first magic number - number of electrons in the innermost electron shell of an atom.[13]

See also
Binary number
−2

References
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External links
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