It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 11 948 is not a prime number.
For example, 11 948 can be divided by 2: 11 948 / 2 = 5 974.
For 11 948 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 11 948 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
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11 948 is an even number, because it is evenly divisible by 2: 11 948 / 2 = 5 974.
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A number is a perfect square (or a square number) if its square root is an integer; that is to say, it is the product of an integer with itself. Here, the square root of 11 948 is about 109.307.
Thus, the square root of 11 948 is not an integer, and therefore 11 948 is not a square number.
The square of a number (here 11 948) is the result of the product of this number (11 948) by itself (i.e., 11 948 × 11 948); the square of 11 948 is sometimes called "raising 11 948 to the power 2", or "11 948 squared".
The square of 11 948 is 142 754 704 because 11 948 × 11 948 = 11 9482 = 142 754 704.
As a consequence, 11 948 is the square root of 142 754 704.
The multiples of 11 948 are all integers evenly divisible by 11 948, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 11 948 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 11 948. The smallest multiples of 11 948 are: