999999999

999,999,999 is an odd composite number composed of three prime numbers multiplied together.

What does the number 999999999 look like?

This visualization shows the relationship between its 3 prime factors (large circles) and 20 divisors.

999999999 is an odd composite number. It is composed of three distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of twenty divisors.

Prime factorization of 999999999:

34 × 37 × 333667

(3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 37 × 333667)

See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 999999999 from the Numbermatics database.


Names of 999999999

  • Cardinal: 999999999 can be written as Nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine.

Scientific notation

  • Scientific notation: 9.99999999 × 108

Factors of 999999999

  • Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
  • Total number of prime factors Ω(n): 6
  • Sum of prime factors: 333707

Divisors of 999999999

Bases of 999999999

  • Binary: 1110111001101011001001111111112
  • Hexadecimal: 0x3B9AC9FF
  • Base-36: GJDGXR

Squares and roots of 999999999

Scales and comparisons

How big is 999999999?
  • 999,999,999 seconds is equal to 31 years, 41 weeks, 3 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 39 seconds.
  • To count from 1 to 999,999,999 would take you about forty-seven years!

    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 999999999 cubic inches would be around 83.3 feet tall.

Recreational maths with 999999999

  • 999999999 is the same when its digits are reversed! That makes it a palindromic number.
  • 999999999 is a Harshad number.
  • The number of decimal digits it has is: 9
  • The sum of 999999999's digits is 81
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