Is 47 a prime number? What are the divisors of 47?

Parity of 47

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

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Is 47 a perfect square 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 47 is about 6.856.

Thus, the square root of 47 is not an integer, and therefore 47 is not a square number.

Anyway, 47 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.

What is the square number of 47?

The square of a number (here 47) is the result of the product of this number (47) by itself (i.e., 47 × 47); the square of 47 is sometimes called "raising 47 to the power 2", or "47 squared".

The square of 47 is 2 209 because 47 × 47 = 472 = 2 209.

As a consequence, 47 is the square root of 2 209.

Number of digits of 47

47 is a number with 2 digits.

What are the multiples of 47?

The multiples of 47 are all integers evenly divisible by 47, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 47 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 47. The smallest multiples of 47 are:

  • 0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 47 too, since 0 × 47 = 0
  • 47: indeed, 47 is a multiple of itself, since 47 is evenly divisible by 47 (we have 47 / 47 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
  • 94: indeed, 94 = 47 × 2
  • 141: indeed, 141 = 47 × 3
  • 188: indeed, 188 = 47 × 4
  • 235: indeed, 235 = 47 × 5
  • etc.

How to determine whether an integer is a prime number?

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 47). 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 6.856). 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.

Numbers near 47

  • Preceding numbers: …45, 46
  • Following numbers: 48, 49…

Nearest numbers from 47

  • Preceding prime number: 43
  • Following prime number: 53
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