246

Names of 246

• Cardinal: 246 can be written as Two hundred forty-six.

Scientific notation

• Scientific notation: 2.46 × 10²

Factors of 246

• Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
• Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
• Sum of prime factors: 46

Divisors of 246

• Number of divisors d(n): 8
• Complete list of divisors:
  1 2 3 6 41 82 123 246
• Sum of all divisors σ(n): 504
• Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 258
• 246 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (258) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 12

Bases of 246

• Binary: 11110110₂
• Hexadecimal: 0xF6
• Base-36: 6U

Squares and roots of 246

• 246 squared (246²) is 60516
• 246 cubed (246³) is 14886936
• The square root of 246 is 15.6843871413
• The cube root of 246 is 6.2658265561

Scales and comparisons

• 246 seconds is equal to 4 minutes, 6 seconds.
• To count from 1 to 246 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 246 cubic inches would be around 0.5 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 246

• 246 backwards is 642
• The number of decimal digits it has is: 3
• The sum of 246's digits is 12
• More coming soon!