64 (number) 64 (number) 64 (sixty-four) is the natural number following 63 and preceding 65. Sixty-four is the square of 8, the cube of 4, and the sixth power of 2. It is the smallest number with exactly seven divisors. It is the lowest positive power of two that is adjacent to neither a Mersenne prime nor a Fermat prime. 64 is the sum of Euler's totient function for the first fourteen integers. It is also a dodecagonal number and a centered triangular number. 64 is also the first whole number that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube. Since
Square root of 2 if is a monic polynomial with integer coefficients, then any rational root of is necessarily an integer. Applying this to the polynomial , it follows that is either an integer or irrational. Because is not an integer (2 is not a perfect square), must therefore be irrational. This proof can be generalized to show that any root of any natural number which is not the square of a natural number is irrational. See quadratic irrational or infinite descent for a proof that the square root of any non-square natural number is irrational. One proof of the number's irrationality is the