Q: Is 19,772,496 a Composite Number?

Why is 19,772,496 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 19,772,496 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 8 9 12 16 17 18 24 34 36 41 48 51 68 72 82 102 123 136 144 153 164 197 204 246 272 306 328 369 394 408 492 591 612 656 697 738 788 816 984 1,182 1,224 1,394 1,476 1,576 1,773 1,968 2,091 2,364 2,448 2,788 2,952 3,152 3,349 3,546 4,182 4,728 5,576 5,904 6,273 6,698 7,092 8,077 8,364 9,456 10,047 11,152 12,546 13,396 14,184 16,154 16,728 20,094 24,231 25,092 26,792 28,368 30,141 32,308 33,456 40,188 48,462 50,184 53,584 60,282 64,616 72,693 80,376 96,924 100,368 120,564 129,232 137,309 145,386 160,752 193,848 241,128 274,618 290,772 387,696 411,927 482,256 549,236 581,544 823,854 1,098,472 1,163,088 1,235,781 1,647,708 2,196,944 2,471,562 3,295,416 4,943,124 6,590,832 9,886,248 and 19,772,496, with no remainder.

Since 19,772,496 cannot be divided by just 1 and 19,772,496, 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).