512 (number)

512 is a power of two: 2⁹ (2 to the 9th power)^[1] and the cube of 8: 8³.^[2]

It is the eleventh Leyland number.^[3]

It is also the third Dudeney number.^[4]

It is a self number in base 12.^[5]

It is a Harshad number in decimal.

It is the cube of the sum of its digits in base 10.^[6]

It is the number of directed graphs on 3 labeled nodes.^[7]

It is palindromic in bases 7 (1331₇) and 15 (242₁₅).

It is a vertically symmetric number. (sequence A053701 in the OEIS)

512 bytes is a common disk sector size,^[8] and exactly a half of kibibyte.

Internet Relay Chat restricts the size of a message to 510 bytes, which fits to 512-bytes buffers when coupled with the message-separating CRLF sequence.^[9]

512 = 2·256 is the highest number of glyphs that the VGA character generator can use simultaneously.^{[citation needed]}

Selena Quintanilla released a song titled El Chico del Apartamento 512 (the title referring to area code 512, which serves Austin, Texas^{[10][better source needed]}), in 1995.^[11]

Lamb of God recorded a song titled "512" for their 2015 album VII: Sturm und Drang. The song was named after the cell number in the Pankrác Prison Randy Blythe was in during his manslaughter case.^[12]

Mora and Jhay Cortez recorded a song titled "512" (The number 512 in this song refers to the Percocet 512 pill, a white, round pill whose active substances are acetaminophen and oxycodone hydrochloride) in February of 2021.

512 is a recurring number in the 2022 videogame Signalis.

In the 2022 videogame Who's Lila?, there is a prominent song named "Forest of 512 Sycamores".