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The Number 499: Properties and Meanings

499 is a Prime Number.

The Year 499 AD

In the year 499 AD Aryabhata I calculated pi to be 3.1416. He produced his Aryabhatiya, a treatise on quadratic equations, the value of pi, and other scientific problems.

In the year 499 AD Xiaowen, ruler of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty died.

In the year 499 AD March 1 - Pope Symmachus made Antipope Laurentius bishop of Nocera in Campania.

In the year 499 AD Kavadh I of Persia deposed his brother Djamasp and restored himself as king of Persia.

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