Q: Is 118,118,840 a Composite Number?

Why is 118,118,840 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 118,118,840 can be evenly divided by 1 2 4 5 7 8 10 14 20 28 35 40 56 70 97 140 194 280 388 485 679 776 970 1,358 1,940 2,716 3,395 3,880 4,349 5,432 6,790 8,698 13,580 17,396 21,745 27,160 30,443 34,792 43,490 60,886 86,980 121,772 152,215 173,960 243,544 304,430 421,853 608,860 843,706 1,217,720 1,687,412 2,109,265 2,952,971 3,374,824 4,218,530 5,905,942 8,437,060 11,811,884 14,764,855 16,874,120 23,623,768 29,529,710 59,059,420 and 118,118,840, with no remainder.

Since 118,118,840 cannot be divided by just 1 and 118,118,840, 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).