6 (number)

This page is about the number six. For the year, see 6

The number six is a natural number that comes after the number five, before the number seven, and two before eight.

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Cardinal	six
Ordinal	6th (sixth)
Numeral system	senary
Factorization	2 × 3
Divisors	1, 2, 3, 6
Greek numeral	Ϛ´
Roman numeral	VI
Roman numeral (unicode)	Ⅵ, ⅵ, ↅ
Greek prefix	hexa-/hex-
Latin prefix	sexa-/sex-
Binary	1102
Ternary	203
Quaternary	124
Quinary	115
Senary	106
Octal	68
Duodecimal	612
Hexadecimal	616
Vigesimal	620
Base 36	636
Greek	στ (or ΣΤ or ς)
Arabic	٦
Persian	۶
Urdu
Amharic	፮
Bengali	৬
Chinese numeral	六，陆
Devanāgarī	६
Hebrew	ו (Vav)
Khmer	៦
Thai	๖
Telugu	౬
Tamil	௬

Six is also the first perfect number which means that the sum of its factors (1, 2 and 3) are equal to the number itself (6). The next perfect number is 28. In Roman numerals, it is VI.

The number six is an even number.

The number 6 (six) is half a dozen.