Q: Is 240,824,628 a Composite Number?

Why is 240,824,628 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 240,824,628 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 9 11 12 18 22 23 33 36 44 46 66 69 92 99 132 137 138 193 198 207 253 274 276 386 396 411 414 506 548 579 759 772 822 828 1,012 1,158 1,233 1,507 1,518 1,644 1,737 2,123 2,277 2,316 2,466 3,014 3,036 3,151 3,474 4,246 4,439 4,521 4,554 4,932 6,028 6,302 6,369 6,948 8,492 8,878 9,042 9,108 9,453 12,604 12,738 13,317 13,563 17,756 18,084 18,906 19,107 25,476 26,441 26,634 27,126 28,359 34,661 37,812 38,214 39,951 48,829 52,882 53,268 54,252 56,718 69,322 76,428 79,323 79,902 97,658 103,983 105,764 113,436 138,644 146,487 158,646 159,804 195,316 207,966 237,969 290,851 292,974 311,949 317,292 415,932 439,461 475,938 581,702 585,948 608,143 623,898 872,553 878,922 951,876 1,163,404 1,216,286 1,247,796 1,745,106 1,757,844 1,824,429 2,432,572 2,617,659 3,490,212 3,648,858 5,235,318 5,473,287 6,689,573 7,297,716 10,470,636 10,946,574 13,379,146 20,068,719 21,893,148 26,758,292 40,137,438 60,206,157 80,274,876 120,412,314 and 240,824,628, with no remainder.

Since 240,824,628 cannot be divided by just 1 and 240,824,628, 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).