131072 is the natural number following 131071 and preceding 131073. 131072 is a power of two, specifically . The following power of two from 131,072 is 65536, and preceding is 262144.

In mathematics 131072 is a regular number.

It is the number that are the sum of 2 nonzero 8th powers.

When expressed using Knuth's up-arrow notation, 131072 is .

In computing 131,072 bytes are equal to 128 Kilobytes (KB).

131072 is the highest possible single tile a player can achieve in 2048.

131072 is also the number that Salesforce has a default character limit when emailing from the "Case Feed" or from the "Case Publisher".

On 21 June 1948, Manchester Baby's "The Baby" would successfully execute its first program to find the highest proper factor of the number 2¹⁸ in 52 minutes, which was 131072.

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