159887

159,887 is an odd composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 159887 look like?

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

159887 is an odd composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twelve divisors.

Prime factorization of 159887:

72 × 13 × 251

(7 × 7 × 13 × 251)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 159887 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 159887

  • Cardinal: 159887 can be written as One hundred fifty-nine thousand, eight hundred eighty-seven.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.59887 × 105

Factors of 159887

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 271

Divisors of 159887

  • Number of divisors d(n): 12
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 201096
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 41209
  • 159887 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (41209) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 118678

Bases of 159887

  • Binary: 1001110000100011112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x2708F
  • Base-36: 3FDB

Squares and roots of 159887

  • 159887 squared (1598872) is 25563852769
  • 159887 cubed (1598873) is 4087327727677103
  • The square root of 159887 is 399.8587250517
  • The cube root of 159887 is 54.2755689391

Scales and comparisons

How big is 159887?
  • 159,887 seconds is equal to 1 day, 20 hours, 24 minutes, 47 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 159,887 would take you about twenty 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 159887 cubic inches would be around 4.5 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 159887

  • 159887 backwards is 788951
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 6
  • The sum of 159887's digits is 38
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