512 (five hundred [and] twelve) is the natural number following 511 and preceding 513.
512 is a power of two: 2<sup>9</sup> (2 to the 9th power) and the cube of 8: 8<sup>3</sup>.
It is the eleventh Leyland number.
It is also the third Dudeney number.
It is a self number in base 12.
It is a harshad number in decimal.
It is the cube of the sum of its digits in base 10.
It is the number of directed graphs on 3 labeled nodes.
512 bytes is a common disk sector size, and exactly a half of kibibyte.
Internet Relay Chat restricts the size of a message to 510 bytes, which fits to 512-bytes buffers when coupled with the message-separating CRLF sequence.
512 = 2÷256 is the highest number of glyphs that the VGA character generator can use simultaneously.
Selena Quintanilla released a song titled El Chico del Apartamento 512 (the title referring to area code 512, which serves Austin, Texas), in 1995.
Lamb of God recorded a song titled "512" for their 2015 album '. The song was named after the cell number in the Pankrác Prison Randy Blythe was in during his manslaughter case.
Mora and Jhay Cortez recorded a song titled "512" (The number 512 in this song refers to the Percocet 512 pill, a white, round pill whose active substances are acetaminophen and oxycodone hydrochloride) in February of 2021.
512 is a recurring number in the 2022 videogame Signalis.
In the 2022 videogame Who's Lila?, there is a prominent song named "Forest of 512 Sycamores".