5956

5,956 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 5956 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 6 divisors.

5956 is an even composite number. It is composed of two distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of six divisors.

Prime factorization of 5956:

22 × 1489

(2 × 2 × 1489)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 5956 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 5956

  • Cardinal: 5956 can be written as Five thousand, nine hundred fifty-six.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 5.956 × 103

Factors of 5956

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 3
  • Sum of prime factors: 1491

Divisors of 5956

  • Number of divisors d(n): 6
  • Complete list of divisors:
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 10430
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 4474
  • 5956 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (4474) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 1482

Bases of 5956

  • Binary: 10111010001002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x1744
  • Base-36: 4LG

Squares and roots of 5956

  • 5956 squared (59562) is 35473936
  • 5956 cubed (59563) is 211282762816
  • The square root of 5956 is 77.1751255263
  • The cube root of 5956 is 18.1266784019

Scales and comparisons

How big is 5956?
  • 5,956 seconds is equal to 1 hour, 39 minutes, 16 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 5,956 would take you about thirty-nine 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 5956 cubic inches would be around 1.5 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 5956

  • 5956 backwards is 6595
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 4
  • The sum of 5956's digits is 25
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