42872

42,872 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 42872 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 16 divisors.

42872 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of sixteen divisors.

Prime factorization of 42872:

2³ × 23 × 233

(2 × 2 × 2 × 23 × 233)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 42872 from the Numbermatics database.

Names of 42872

Cardinal: 42872 can be written as Forty-two thousand, eight hundred seventy-two.

Scientific notation

Scientific notation: 4.2872 × 10⁴

Factors of 42872

Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 5
Sum of prime factors: 258

Divisors of 42872

Number of divisors d(n): 16
Complete list of divisors:
1 2 4 8 23 46 92 184 233 466 932 1864 5359 10718 21436 42872
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 84240
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 41368
42872 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (41368) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 1504

Bases of 42872

Binary: 1010011101111000₂
Hexadecimal: 0xA778
Base-36: X2W

Squares and roots of 42872

42872 squared (42872²) is 1838008384
42872 cubed (42872³) is 78799095438848
The square root of 42872 is 207.0555481025
The cube root of 42872 is 34.9991836543

Scales and comparisons

How big is 42872?

42,872 seconds is equal to 11 hours, 54 minutes, 32 seconds.
To count from 1 to 42,872 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 42872 cubic inches would be around 2.9 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 42872

42872 backwards is 27824
42872 is a Harshad number.
The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
The sum of 42872's digits is 23
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