4872

4,872 is an even composite number composed of four prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 4872 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 4 prime factors (large circles) and 32 divisors.

4872 is an even composite number. It is composed of four distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of thirty-two divisors.

Prime factorization of 4872:

2³ × 3 × 7 × 29

(2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 7 × 29)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 4872 from the Numbermatics database.

Names of 4872

Cardinal: 4872 can be written as Four thousand, eight hundred seventy-two.

Scientific notation

Scientific notation: 4.872 × 10³

Factors of 4872

Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 4
Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 6
Sum of prime factors: 41

Divisors of 4872

Number of divisors d(n): 32
Complete list of divisors:
1 2 3 4 6 7 8 12 14 21 24 28 29 42 56 58 84 87 116 168 174 203 232 348 406 609 696 812 1218 1624 2436 4872
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 14400
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 9528
4872 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (9528) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 4656

Bases of 4872

Binary: 1001100001000₂
Hexadecimal: 0x1308
Base-36: 3RC

Squares and roots of 4872

4872 squared (4872²) is 23736384
4872 cubed (4872³) is 115643662848
The square root of 4872 is 69.7997134665
The cube root of 4872 is 16.9525783357

Scales and comparisons

How big is 4872?

4,872 seconds is equal to 1 hour, 21 minutes, 12 seconds.
To count from 1 to 4,872 would take you about twenty-one 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 4872 cubic inches would be around 1.4 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 4872

4872 backwards is 2784
4872 is a Harshad number.
The number of decimal digits it has is: 4
The sum of 4872's digits is 21
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