55956

55,956 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 55956 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 12 divisors.

55956 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twelve divisors.

Prime factorization of 55956:

22 × 3 × 4663

(2 × 2 × 3 × 4663)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 55956 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 55956

  • Cardinal: 55956 can be written as Fifty-five thousand, nine hundred fifty-six.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 5.5956 × 104

Factors of 55956

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 4668

Divisors of 55956

  • Number of divisors d(n): 12
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 130592
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 74636
  • 55956 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (74636) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 18680

Bases of 55956

  • Binary: 11011010100101002
  • Hexadecimal: 0xDA94
  • Base-36: 176C

Squares and roots of 55956

  • 55956 squared (559562) is 3131073936
  • 55956 cubed (559563) is 175202373162816
  • The square root of 55956 is 236.5502060873
  • The cube root of 55956 is 38.2486009143

Scales and comparisons

How big is 55956?
  • 55,956 seconds is equal to 15 hours, 32 minutes, 36 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 55,956 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 55956 cubic inches would be around 3.2 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 55956

  • 55956 backwards is 65955
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 55956's digits is 30
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