88

88 is an even composite number composed of two prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 88 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 2 prime factors (large circles) and 8 divisors.

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

Prime factorization of 88:

23 × 11

(2 × 2 × 2 × 11)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 88 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 88

  • Cardinal: 88 can be written as Eighty-eight.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 8.8 × 101

Factors of 88

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 2
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 4
  • Sum of prime factors: 13

Divisors of 88

  • Number of divisors d(n): 8
  • Complete list of divisors:
    1 2 4 8 11 22 44 88
  • Sum of all divisors σ(n): 180
  • Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 92
  • 88 is an abundant number, because the sum of its proper divisors (92) is greater than itself. Its abundance is 4

Bases of 88

  • Binary: 10110002
  • Hexadecimal: 0x58
  • Base-36: 2G

Squares and roots of 88

  • 88 squared (882) is 7744
  • 88 cubed (883) is 681472
  • The square root of 88 is 9.3808315197
  • The cube root of 88 is 4.4479601813

Scales and comparisons

How big is 88?
  • 88 seconds is equal to 1 minute, 28 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 88 would take you about forty-four seconds.

    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 88 cubic inches would be around 0.4 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 88

  • 88 is the same when its digits are reversed! That makes it a palindromic number.
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 2
  • The sum of 88's digits is 16
  • More coming soon!

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