48978

48,978 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 48978 look like?

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

48978 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 48978:

2 × 33 × 907

(2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 907)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 48978 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 48978

  • Cardinal: 48978 can be written as Forty-eight thousand, nine hundred seventy-eight.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 4.8978 × 104

Factors of 48978

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 5
  • Sum of prime factors: 912

Divisors of 48978

  • Number of divisors d(n): 16
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 108960
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 59982
  • 48978 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (59982) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 11004

Bases of 48978

  • Binary: 10111111010100102
  • Hexadecimal: 0xBF52
  • Base-36: 11SI

Squares and roots of 48978

  • 48978 squared (489782) is 2398844484
  • 48978 cubed (489783) is 117490605137352
  • The square root of 48978 is 221.3097376981
  • The cube root of 48978 is 36.5875797685

Scales and comparisons

How big is 48978?
  • 48,978 seconds is equal to 13 hours, 36 minutes, 18 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 48,978 would take you about thirteen 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 48978 cubic inches would be around 3 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 48978

  • 48978 backwards is 87984
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 48978's digits is 36
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