4294967296 (number)

4,294,967,296 is the number following 4,294,967,295 and preceding 4,294,967,297.

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Cardinal	four billion, two hundred [and] ninety-four million, nine hundred [and] sixty-seven thousand, two hundred [and] ninety-six
Ordinal	4,294,967,296th (four billion, two hundred [and] ninety-four million, nine hundred [and] sixty-seven thousand, two hundred [and] ninety-sixth)
Factorization	$2^{32}$
Roman numeral	${\overline {\overline {\overline {\mbox{IV}}}}}{\overline {\overline {\mbox{CCXCIV}}}}{\overline {\mbox{CMLXVII}}}{\mbox{CCXCVI}}$
Binary	100000000000000000000000000000000
Hexadecimal	100000000

Being a power of two, 4,294,967,296 can also be expressed as 2^32, 4^16, 16^8, 256^4, 65536^2, 2^(2^5). It is the smallest number of the form (2^(2^n)) that does not produce a prime number when 1 is added.

In computation, the 32-bit computers can directly access 2³² pieces of address space, this leads directly to the 4 GigaByte limit on main memory. The main drive behind 64-bit computing is to circumvent this menacing barrier to higher OLTP scores in low end machines.

4294967296 is the total number of CMYK colors possible when using 8 bit integers for each color component. However, virtually unlimited colors are possible by using floats from 0 to 1 as color components, so this limit is less important than it might be.

2^32 = 4 * 2^30, where 2^30 is a gibi, and this value is commonly used as the number of bytes in 4 gigabytes.