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113 is the 30th prime number, following 109 and preceding 127, a Sophie Germain prime, a Chen prime and a Proth prime as it is a prime number of the form 7 × 24 + 1. 113 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form . In base 10, this prime is a primeval number, and a permutable prime with 131 and 311.
It is a highly cototient number and a centered square number. 355/113 approximates pi to six decimal places, with an error of less than 1/1133. This means that 113/355 approximates the reciprocal of pi.
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