278968

278,968 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 278968 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 8 divisors.

278968 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of eight divisors.

Prime factorization of 278968:

23 × 34871

(2 × 2 × 2 × 34871)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 278968 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 278968

  • Cardinal: 278968 can be written as Two hundred seventy-eight thousand, nine hundred sixty-eight.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 2.78968 × 105

Factors of 278968

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 34873

Divisors of 278968

  • Number of divisors d(n): 8
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 523080
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 244112
  • 278968 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (244112) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 34856

Bases of 278968

  • Binary: 10001000001101110002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x441B8
  • Base-36: 5Z94

Squares and roots of 278968

  • 278968 squared (2789682) is 77823145024
  • 278968 cubed (2789683) is 21710167121055232
  • The square root of 278968 is 528.1742136833
  • The cube root of 278968 is 65.3408524827

Scales and comparisons

How big is 278968?
  • 278,968 seconds is equal to 3 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes, 28 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 278,968 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 278968 cubic inches would be around 5.4 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 278968

  • 278968 backwards is 869872
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 6
  • The sum of 278968's digits is 40
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