42857

42,857 is an odd composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 42857 look like?

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

42857 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 42857:

17 × 2521

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 42857 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 42857

  • Cardinal: 42857 can be written as Forty-two thousand, eight hundred fifty-seven.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 4.2857 × 104

Factors of 42857

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 2
  • Sum of prime factors: 2538

Divisors of 42857

  • Number of divisors d(n): 4
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 45396
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 2539
  • 42857 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (2539) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 40318

Bases of 42857

  • Binary: 10100111011010012
  • Hexadecimal: 0xA769
  • Base-36: X2H

Squares and roots of 42857

  • 42857 squared (428572) is 1836722449
  • 42857 cubed (428573) is 78716413996793
  • The square root of 42857 is 207.0193227697
  • The cube root of 42857 is 34.9951013553

Scales and comparisons

How big is 42857?
  • 42,857 seconds is equal to 11 hours, 54 minutes, 17 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 42,857 would take you about eleven 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 42857 cubic inches would be around 2.9 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 42857

  • 42857 backwards is 75824
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 42857's digits is 26
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