17972

17,972 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 17972 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 6 divisors.

17972 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of six divisors.

Prime factorization of 17972:

22 × 4493

(2 × 2 × 4493)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 17972 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 17972

  • Cardinal: 17972 can be written as Seventeen thousand, nine hundred seventy-two.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 1.7972 × 104

Factors of 17972

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
  • Sum of prime factors: 4495

Divisors of 17972

  • Number of divisors d(n): 6
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 31458
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 13486
  • 17972 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (13486) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 4486

Bases of 17972

  • Binary: 1000110001101002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x4634
  • Base-36: DV8

Squares and roots of 17972

  • 17972 squared (179722) is 322992784
  • 17972 cubed (179723) is 5804826314048
  • The square root of 17972 is 134.0596881991
  • The cube root of 17972 is 26.1938178603

Scales and comparisons

How big is 17972?
  • 17,972 seconds is equal to 4 hours, 59 minutes, 32 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 17,972 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 17972 cubic inches would be around 2.2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 17972

  • 17972 backwards is 27971
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 17972's digits is 26
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