240
240 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.
What does the number 240 look like?
This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 20 divisors.
240 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twenty divisors.
Prime factorization of 240:
24 × 3 × 5
(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5)See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 240 from the Numbermatics database.
Names of 240
- Cardinal: 240 can be written as Two hundred forty.
Scientific notation
- Scientific notation: 2.4 × 102
Factors of 240
Divisors of 240
Bases of 240
- Binary: 111100002
- Hexadecimal: 0xF0
- Base-36: 6O
Squares and roots of 240
Scales and comparisons
How big is 240?- 240 seconds is equal to 4 minutes.
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To count from 1 to 240 would take you about two minutes.
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 240 cubic inches would be around 0.5 feet tall.
Recreational maths with 240
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