12956

12,956 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 12956 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 12 divisors.

12956 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twelve divisors.

Prime factorization of 12956:

22 × 41 × 79

(2 × 2 × 41 × 79)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 12956 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 12956

  • Cardinal: 12956 can be written as Twelve thousand, nine hundred fifty-six.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.2956 × 104

Factors of 12956

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 122

Divisors of 12956

  • Number of divisors d(n): 12
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 23520
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 10564
  • 12956 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (10564) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 2392

Bases of 12956

  • Binary: 110010100111002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x329C
  • Base-36: 9ZW

Squares and roots of 12956

  • 12956 squared (129562) is 167857936
  • 12956 cubed (129563) is 2174767418816
  • The square root of 12956 is 113.8244262011
  • The cube root of 12956 is 23.4867890133

Scales and comparisons

How big is 12956?
  • 12,956 seconds is equal to 3 hours, 35 minutes, 56 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 12,956 would take you about three hours.

    This is a very rough estimate, based on a speaking rate of half a second every third order of magnitude. If you speak quickly, you could probably say any randomly-chosen number between one and a thousand in around half a second. Very big numbers obviously take longer to say, so we add half a second for every extra x1000. (We do not count involuntary pauses, bathroom breaks or the necessity of sleep in our calculation!)

  • A cube with a volume of 12956 cubic inches would be around 2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 12956

  • 12956 backwards is 65921
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 12956's digits is 23
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