480

480 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 480 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 24 divisors.

480 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twenty-four divisors.

Prime factorization of 480:

25 × 3 × 5

(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 480 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 480

  • Cardinal: 480 can be written as Four hundred eighty.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 4.8 × 102

Factors of 480

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 7
  • Sum of prime factors: 10

Divisors of 480

  • Number of divisors d(n): 24
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 1512
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 1032
  • 480 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (1032) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 552

Bases of 480

  • Binary: 1111000002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x1E0
  • Base-36: DC

Squares and roots of 480

  • 480 squared (4802) is 230400
  • 480 cubed (4803) is 110592000
  • The square root of 480 is 21.9089023001
  • The cube root of 480 is 7.8297352823

Scales and comparisons

How big is 480?
  • 480 seconds is equal to 8 minutes.
  • To count from 1 to 480 would take you about four minutes.

    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 480 cubic inches would be around 0.7 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 480

  • 480 backwards is 084
  • 480 is a Harshad number.
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 3
  • The sum of 480's digits is 12
  • More coming soon!

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