28972

28,972 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 28972 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 6 divisors.

28972 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of six divisors.

Prime factorization of 28972:

2² × 7243

(2 × 2 × 7243)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 28972 from the Numbermatics database.

Names of 28972

Cardinal: 28972 can be written as Twenty-eight thousand, nine hundred seventy-two.

Scientific notation

Scientific notation: 2.8972 × 10⁴

Factors of 28972

Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
Sum of prime factors: 7245

Divisors of 28972

Number of divisors d(n): 6
Complete list of divisors:
1 2 4 7243 14486 28972
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 50708
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 21736
28972 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (21736) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 7236

Bases of 28972

Binary: 111000100101100₂
Hexadecimal: 0x712C
Base-36: MCS

Squares and roots of 28972

28972 squared (28972²) is 839376784
28972 cubed (28972³) is 24318424186048
The square root of 28972 is 170.2116329749
The cube root of 28972 is 30.7132771567

Scales and comparisons

How big is 28972?

28,972 seconds is equal to 8 hours, 2 minutes, 52 seconds.
To count from 1 to 28,972 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 28972 cubic inches would be around 2.6 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 28972

28972 backwards is 27982
The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
The sum of 28972's digits is 28
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