61 is the fourth cuban prime of the form where ,[4] and the fourth Pillai prime since is divisible by 61, but 61 is not one more than a multiple of 8.[5] It is also a Keith number, as it recurs in a Fibonacci-like sequence started from its base 10 digits: 6, 1, 7, 8, 15, 23, 38, 61, ...[6]
61 is a unique prime in base 14, since no other prime has a 6-digit period in base 14, and palindromic in bases 6 (1416) and 60 (1160). It is the sixth up/down or Euler zigzag number.
61 is the smallest proper prime, a prime which ends in the digit 1 in decimal and whose reciprocal in base-10 has a repeating sequence of length where each digit (0, 1, ..., 9) appears in the repeating sequence the same number of times as does each other digit (namely, times).[7]: 166
In the list of Fortunate numbers, 61 occurs thrice, since adding 61 to either the tenth, twelfth or seventeenth primorial gives a prime number[8] (namely 6,469,693,291; 7,420,738,134,871; and 1,922,760,350,154,212,639,131).
There are sixty-one 3-uniform tilings, where on the other hand, there are one hundred and fifty-one 4-uniform tilings[9] (with 61 the eighteenth prime number, and 151 the thirty-sixth, twice the index value).[10][a]
U.S. Route 61 is the highway that inspired so much attention on "Highway 61"
Part 61 is a law created by the FAA regarding medical exams. This law has often come under attack by AOPA.
The P-61 is the Northrop-designed fighter first designated as the XP-61. It first flew on May 26, 1942. It is also known as the Black Widow as it was the first fighter aircraft designed to be a night fighter
Sixty 1 is a brand tobacco produced by Nationwide Tobacco
The number of points required to win a "standard" game of cribbage[21]
The maximum number of tables that can be joined in a single MariaDB or MySQL query[22]
In sports
New York Yankees right fielder Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record until it was surpassed in 1998 by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The American League record was broken 61 years later in 2022, by Aaron Judge.
^Otherwise, there are eleven total 1-uniform tilings (the regular and semiregular tilings), and twenty 2-uniform tilings (where 20 is the eleventh composite number;[11] together these values add to 31, the eleventh prime).[10][12] The sum of the first twenty integers is the fourth primorial210,[13][14] equal to the product of the first four prime numbers, and 1, whose collective sum generated is 18.