12979

12,979 is a prime number. Like all primes greater than two, it is odd and has no factors apart from itself and one.

What does the number 12979 look like?

As a prime, it is not composed of any other numbers and has no internal structure.

12979 is a prime number. Like all primes (except two), it is an odd number.

Prime factorization of 12979:

12979

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 12979 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 12979

  • Cardinal: 12979 can be written as Twelve thousand, nine hundred seventy-nine.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.2979 × 104

Factors of 12979

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 1
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 1
  • Sum of prime factors: 12979

Divisors of 12979

  • Number of divisors d(n): 2
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 12980
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 1
  • 12979 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (1) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 12978

Bases of 12979

  • Binary: 110010101100112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x32B3
  • Base-36: A0J

Squares and roots of 12979

  • 12979 squared (129792) is 168454441
  • 12979 cubed (129793) is 2186370189739
  • The square root of 12979 is 113.9254141971
  • The cube root of 12979 is 23.5006790207

Scales and comparisons

How big is 12979?
  • 12,979 seconds is equal to 3 hours, 36 minutes, 19 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 12,979 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 12979 cubic inches would be around 2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 12979

  • 12979 backwards is 97921
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 12979's digits is 28
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