245 (number)

245 is the natural number following 244 and preceding 246.

245 in online public access (library) catalogs

Two hundred forty-five 245 = 5·7². In the MARC format for records in online public access (library) catalogs, in which each type of information about a book (or other library material) is identified with a 3-digit number, 245 identifies the title of the item; most library catalog software requires that each record have at least a 245 tag, even if no other information is entered about the item.

Other references to 245

* The number of Jewish singers who returned from captivity in Babylon in circa 538 BCE BC following the rise of Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire. "...besides their male and female slaves, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred forty-five singers, male and female. They had seven hundred thiry-six horses, two hundred forty-five mules, four hundred thirty-five camels, and six thousand seven hundred twenty donkeys." (see Nehemiah chapter 7, verses 67 to 69 -- Also, an "almost" identical reference in Ezra chapter 2, verses 65 to 67 states that there were only 200 singers, and that the slaves were "servants").