55856

55,856 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 55856 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 10 divisors.

55856 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of ten divisors.

Prime factorization of 55856:

24 × 3491

(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3491)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 55856 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 55856

  • Cardinal: 55856 can be written as Fifty-five thousand, eight hundred fifty-six.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 5.5856 × 104

Factors of 55856

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 5
  • Sum of prime factors: 3493

Divisors of 55856

  • Number of divisors d(n): 10
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 108252
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 52396
  • 55856 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (52396) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 3460

Bases of 55856

  • Binary: 11011010001100002
  • Hexadecimal: 0xDA30
  • Base-36: 173K

Squares and roots of 55856

  • 55856 squared (558562) is 3119892736
  • 55856 cubed (558563) is 174264728662016
  • The square root of 55856 is 236.3387399475
  • The cube root of 55856 is 38.2258024009

Scales and comparisons

How big is 55856?
  • 55,856 seconds is equal to 15 hours, 30 minutes, 56 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 55,856 would take you about fifteen 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 55856 cubic inches would be around 3.2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 55856

  • 55856 backwards is 65855
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 55856's digits is 29
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