72972

72,972 is an even composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 72972 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 18 divisors.

72972 is an even composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of eighteen divisors.

Prime factorization of 72972:

22 × 32 × 2027

(2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 2027)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 72972 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 72972

  • Cardinal: 72972 can be written as Seventy-two thousand, nine hundred seventy-two.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 7.2972 × 104

Factors of 72972

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 5
  • Sum of prime factors: 2032

Divisors of 72972

Bases of 72972

  • Binary: 100011101000011002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x11D0C
  • Base-36: 1KB0

Squares and roots of 72972

  • 72972 squared (729722) is 5324912784
  • 72972 cubed (729723) is 388569535674048
  • The square root of 72972 is 270.1333004277
  • The cube root of 72972 is 41.7880478331

Scales and comparisons

How big is 72972?
  • 72,972 seconds is equal to 20 hours, 16 minutes, 12 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 72,972 would take you about twenty 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 72972 cubic inches would be around 3.5 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 72972

  • 72972 backwards is 27927
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 5
  • The sum of 72972's digits is 27
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