278231

278,231 is an odd composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 278231 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 4 divisors.

278231 is an odd composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of four divisors.

Prime factorization of 278231:

23 × 12097

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 278231 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 278231

  • Cardinal: 278231 can be written as Two hundred seventy-eight thousand, two hundred thirty-one.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 2.78231 × 105

Factors of 278231

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 2
  • Sum of prime factors: 12120

Divisors of 278231

  • Number of divisors d(n): 4
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 290352
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 12121
  • 278231 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (12121) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 266110

Bases of 278231

  • Binary: 10000111110110101112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x43ED7
  • Base-36: 5YON

Squares and roots of 278231

  • 278231 squared (2782312) is 77412489361
  • 278231 cubed (2782313) is 21538554327400391
  • The square root of 278231 is 527.4760658077
  • The cube root of 278231 is 65.2832608375

Scales and comparisons

How big is 278231?
  • 278,231 seconds is equal to 3 days, 5 hours, 17 minutes, 11 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 278,231 would take you about three days.

    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 278231 cubic inches would be around 5.4 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 278231

  • 278231 backwards is 132872
  • 278231 is a Harshad number.
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 6
  • The sum of 278231's digits is 23
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