15887

15,887 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 15887 look like?

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

15887 is a prime number. Like all primes (except two), it is an odd number.

Prime factorization of 15887:

15887

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 15887 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 15887

  • Cardinal: 15887 can be written as Fifteen thousand, eight hundred eighty-seven.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.5887 × 104

Factors of 15887

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 1
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 1
  • Sum of prime factors: 15887

Divisors of 15887

  • Number of divisors d(n): 2
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 15888
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 1
  • 15887 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (1) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 15886

Bases of 15887

  • Binary: 111110000011112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x3E0F
  • Base-36: C9B

Squares and roots of 15887

  • 15887 squared (158872) is 252396769
  • 15887 cubed (158873) is 4009827469103
  • The square root of 15887 is 126.0436432351
  • The cube root of 15887 is 25.1389595125

Scales and comparisons

How big is 15887?
  • 15,887 seconds is equal to 4 hours, 24 minutes, 47 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 15,887 would take you about four 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 15887 cubic inches would be around 2.1 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 15887

  • 15887 backwards is 78851
  • 15887 is a twin prime! Its twin is 15889
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 15887's digits is 29
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