30 (thirty) is the natural number following 29 and preceding 31.

30 is the sum of the first four squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number.

It is a primorial and is the smallest Giuga number.

30 is the smallest sphenic number, and the smallest of the form Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): 2\cdot 3\cdot r

Thirty has but one number^{[citation needed]} for which it is the aliquot sum: the square number 841.

Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 5, 10 and 15) gives 30, hence 30 is a semiperfect number.

30 is the largest number such that all coprimes smaller than itself, except for 1, are prime.

A polygon with thirty sides is called a tricontagon.

The icosahedron and the dodecahedron are Platonic solids with 30 edges. The icosidodecahedron is an Archimedean solid with 30 vertices, and the Tutte–Coxeter graph is a symmetric graph with 30 vertices.

E₈ has Coxeter number 30.

30 is a Harshad number.

Since any group G such that |G| = pⁿm, where p does not divide m, has a subgroup of order pⁿ, and 30 is the only number less than 60 that is not either a prime or of the above form, it is the only candidate for the order of a simple group less than 60 that one needs other methods to reject.

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