512 (number)


512 is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
512 is a power of two: 29 and the cube of 8: 83.
It is the eleventh Leyland number.
512 is also the third Dudeney number.

Special use in computers

512 bytes is a common disk sector size, 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.
512 = 2·256 is the highest number of glyphs that the VGA character generator can use simultaneously.

In music

recorded the song titled "512" for their 2015 album .