131072

131,072 is an even composite number. It is composed of a single prime number multiplied by itself sixteen times.

What does the number 131072 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 1 prime factors (large circles) and 18 divisors.

131072 is an even composite number. It is composed of one distinct prime number multiplied by itself sixteen times. It has a total of eighteen divisors.

Prime factorization of 131072:

2¹⁷

(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 131072 from the Numbermatics database.

Names of 131072

Cardinal: 131072 can be written as One hundred thirty-one thousand and seventy-two.

Scientific notation

Scientific notation: 1.31072 × 10⁵

Factors of 131072

Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 1
Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 17
Sum of prime factors: 2

Divisors of 131072

Number of divisors d(n): 18
Complete list of divisors:
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 262143
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 131071
131072 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (131071) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 1

Bases of 131072

Binary: 100000000000000000₂
Hexadecimal: 0x20000
Base-36: 2T4W

Squares and roots of 131072

131072 squared (131072²) is 17179869184
131072 cubed (131072³) is 2251799813685248
The square root of 131072 is 362.0386719675
The cube root of 131072 is 50.7968336629

Scales and comparisons

How big is 131072?

131,072 seconds is equal to 1 day, 12 hours, 24 minutes, 32 seconds.
To count from 1 to 131,072 would take you about twelve 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 131072 cubic inches would be around 4.2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 131072

131072 backwards is 270131
The number of decimal digits it has is: 6
The sum of 131072's digits is 14
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