21856

21,856 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 21856 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 12 divisors.

21856 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twelve divisors.

Prime factorization of 21856:

25 × 683

(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 683)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 21856 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 21856

  • Cardinal: 21856 can be written as Twenty-one thousand, eight hundred fifty-six.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 2.1856 × 104

Factors of 21856

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 6
  • Sum of prime factors: 685

Divisors of 21856

  • Number of divisors d(n): 12
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 43092
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 21236
  • 21856 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (21236) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 620

Bases of 21856

  • Binary: 1010101011000002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x5560
  • Base-36: GV4

Squares and roots of 21856

  • 21856 squared (218562) is 477684736
  • 21856 cubed (218563) is 10440277590016
  • The square root of 21856 is 147.8377489007
  • The cube root of 21856 is 27.9591240295

Scales and comparisons

How big is 21856?
  • 21,856 seconds is equal to 6 hours, 4 minutes, 16 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 21,856 would take you about six 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 21856 cubic inches would be around 2.3 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 21856

  • 21856 backwards is 65812
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 21856's digits is 22
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