20978

20,978 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 20978 look like?

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

20978 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of eight divisors.

Prime factorization of 20978:

2 × 17 × 617

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 20978 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 20978

  • Cardinal: 20978 can be written as Twenty thousand, nine hundred seventy-eight.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 2.0978 × 104

Factors of 20978

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
  • Sum of prime factors: 636

Divisors of 20978

  • Number of divisors d(n): 8
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 33372
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 12394
  • 20978 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (12394) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 8584

Bases of 20978

  • Binary: 1010001111100102
  • Hexadecimal: 0x51F2
  • Base-36: G6Q

Squares and roots of 20978

  • 20978 squared (209782) is 440076484
  • 20978 cubed (209783) is 9231924481352
  • The square root of 20978 is 144.8378403593
  • The cube root of 20978 is 27.5796040591

Scales and comparisons

How big is 20978?
  • 20,978 seconds is equal to 5 hours, 49 minutes, 38 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 20,978 would take you about five 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 20978 cubic inches would be around 2.3 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 20978

  • 20978 backwards is 87902
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 20978's digits is 26
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