Q: Is 100,617,552 a Composite Number?

Why is 100,617,552 a composite number?

A composite number is a number that can be divided evenly by more numbers than 1 and itself. It is the opposite of a prime number.

The number 100,617,552 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 12 14 16 18 21 24 27 28 36 42 48 54 56 63 72 81 84 108 112 126 144 162 168 189 216 243 252 324 336 378 432 486 504 567 648 756 972 1,008 1,134 1,296 1,512 1,701 1,944 2,268 3,024 3,402 3,697 3,888 4,536 6,804 7,394 9,072 11,091 13,608 14,788 22,182 25,879 27,216 29,576 33,273 44,364 51,758 59,152 66,546 77,637 88,728 99,819 103,516 133,092 155,274 177,456 199,638 207,032 232,911 266,184 299,457 310,548 399,276 414,064 465,822 532,368 598,914 621,096 698,733 798,552 898,371 931,644 1,197,828 1,242,192 1,397,466 1,597,104 1,796,742 1,863,288 2,096,199 2,395,656 2,794,932 3,593,484 3,726,576 4,192,398 4,791,312 5,589,864 6,288,597 7,186,968 8,384,796 11,179,728 12,577,194 14,373,936 16,769,592 25,154,388 33,539,184 50,308,776 and 100,617,552, with no remainder.

Since 100,617,552 cannot be divided by just 1 and 100,617,552, it is a composite number.

More Examples

• All positive natural numbers are either a prime number or a composite number (except the number 1, which is neither).