1491

1,491 is an odd composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 1491 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 8 divisors.

1491 is an odd composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of eight divisors.

Prime factorization of 1491:

3 × 7 × 71

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 1491 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 1491

  • Cardinal: 1491 can be written as One thousand, four hundred ninety-one.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.491 × 103

Factors of 1491

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
  • Sum of prime factors: 81

Divisors of 1491

  • Number of divisors d(n): 8
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 2304
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 813
  • 1491 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (813) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 678

Bases of 1491

  • Binary: 101110100112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x5D3
  • Base-36: 15F

Squares and roots of 1491

  • 1491 squared (14912) is 2223081
  • 1491 cubed (14913) is 3314613771
  • The square root of 1491 is 38.6134691527
  • The cube root of 1491 is 11.4242021989

Scales and comparisons

How big is 1491?
  • 1,491 seconds is equal to 24 minutes, 51 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 1,491 would take you about twenty-four minutes.

    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 1491 cubic inches would be around 1 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 1491

  • 1491 backwards is 1941
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 4
  • The sum of 1491's digits is 15
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