16979

16,979 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 16979 look like?

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

16979 is a prime number. Like all primes (except two), it is an odd number.

Prime factorization of 16979:

16979

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 16979 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 16979

  • Cardinal: 16979 can be written as Sixteen thousand, nine hundred seventy-nine.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.6979 × 104

Factors of 16979

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 1
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 1
  • Sum of prime factors: 16979

Divisors of 16979

  • Number of divisors d(n): 2
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 16980
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 1
  • 16979 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (1) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 16978

Bases of 16979

  • Binary: 1000010010100112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x4253
  • Base-36: D3N

Squares and roots of 16979

  • 16979 squared (169792) is 288286441
  • 16979 cubed (169793) is 4894815481739
  • The square root of 16979 is 130.3034918949
  • The cube root of 16979 is 25.7022239139

Scales and comparisons

How big is 16979?
  • 16,979 seconds is equal to 4 hours, 42 minutes, 59 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 16,979 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 16979 cubic inches would be around 2.1 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 16979

  • 16979 backwards is 97961
  • 16979 is a twin prime! Its twin is 16981
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 16979's digits is 32
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