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300 (number)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1384187
Source-derived summary

300 (three hundred) is the natural number following 299 and preceding 301.

In mathematics

300 is a composite number and the 24th triangular number. It is also a second hexagonal number.

Integers from 301 to 399

300s

301

302

303

303 is a semiprime number. There are 303 compositions of 10 where they cannot be viewed as a stack. There are 303 bipartite graphs with 8 vertices.

304

304 = 24 × 19. It is a primitive semiperfect number because it is a semiperfect number that is not divisible by any other semiperfect number. It is an untouchable number because it is not equal to the sum of any number's proper divisors. 304 is a nontotient number because it is an even number and phi(x) = 304 has no solution.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “300 (number)” as natural number. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 130-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where number and natural can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as natural number. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1384187. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from 300 (number)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.