28959

28,959 is an odd composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 28959 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 12 divisors.

28959 is an odd composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twelve divisors.

Prime factorization of 28959:

3 × 72 × 197

(3 × 7 × 7 × 197)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 28959 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 28959

  • Cardinal: 28959 can be written as Twenty-eight thousand, nine hundred fifty-nine.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 2.8959 × 104

Factors of 28959

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 207

Divisors of 28959

  • Number of divisors d(n): 12
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 45144
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 16185
  • 28959 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (16185) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 12774

Bases of 28959

  • Binary: 1110001000111112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x711F
  • Base-36: MCF

Squares and roots of 28959

  • 28959 squared (289592) is 838623681
  • 28959 cubed (289593) is 24285703178079
  • The square root of 28959 is 170.1734409361
  • The cube root of 28959 is 30.7086826939

Scales and comparisons

How big is 28959?
  • 28,959 seconds is equal to 8 hours, 2 minutes, 39 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 28,959 would take you about eight 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 28959 cubic inches would be around 2.6 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 28959

  • 28959 backwards is 95982
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 28959's digits is 33
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