Is 269 a prime number?

269 is an odd number, because it is not evenly divisible by 2.

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• What is an even number?

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 269 is about 16.401.

Thus, the square root of 269 is not an integer, and therefore 269 is not a square number.

Anyway, 269 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.

The square of a number (here 269) is the result of the product of this number (269) by itself (i.e., 269 × 269); the square of 269 is sometimes called "raising 269 to the power 2", or "269 squared".

The square of 269 is 72 361 because 269 × 269 = 269² = 72 361.

As a consequence, 269 is the square root of 72 361.

269 is a number with 3 digits.

The multiples of 269 are all integers evenly divisible by 269, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 269 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 269. The smallest multiples of 269 are:

• 0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 269 too, since 0 × 269 = 0
• 269: indeed, 269 is a multiple of itself, since 269 is evenly divisible by 269 (we have 269 / 269 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
• 538: indeed, 538 = 269 × 2
• 807: indeed, 807 = 269 × 3
• 1 076: indeed, 1 076 = 269 × 4
• 1 345: indeed, 1 345 = 269 × 5
• etc.

To determine the primality of a number, several algorithms can be used. The most naive technique is to test all divisors strictly smaller to the number of which we want to determine the primality (here 269). First, we can eliminate all even numbers greater than 2 (and hence 4, 6, 8…). Then, we can stop this check when we reach the square root of the number of which we want to determine the primality (here the square root is about 16.401). Historically, the sieve of Eratosthenes (dating from the Greek mathematics) implements this technique in a relatively efficient manner.

More modern techniques include the sieve of Atkin, probabilistic algorithms, and the cyclotomic AKS test.

• Preceding numbers: …267, 268
• Following numbers: 270, 271…

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• Preceding prime number: 263
• Following prime number: 271

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