Is 29 a prime number? What are the divisors of 29?

Parity of 29

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

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Is 29 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 29 is about 5.385.

Thus, the square root of 29 is not an integer, and therefore 29 is not a square number.

Anyway, 29 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.

What is the square number of 29?

The square of a number (here 29) is the result of the product of this number (29) by itself (i.e., 29 × 29); the square of 29 is sometimes called "raising 29 to the power 2", or "29 squared".

The square of 29 is 841 because 29 × 29 = 292 = 841.

As a consequence, 29 is the square root of 841.

Number of digits of 29

29 is a number with 2 digits.

What are the multiples of 29?

The multiples of 29 are all integers evenly divisible by 29, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 29 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 29. The smallest multiples of 29 are:

  • 0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 29 too, since 0 × 29 = 0
  • 29: indeed, 29 is a multiple of itself, since 29 is evenly divisible by 29 (we have 29 / 29 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
  • 58: indeed, 58 = 29 × 2
  • 87: indeed, 87 = 29 × 3
  • 116: indeed, 116 = 29 × 4
  • 145: indeed, 145 = 29 × 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 29). 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 5.385). 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 29

  • Preceding numbers: …27, 28
  • Following numbers: 30, 31

Nearest numbers from 29

  • Preceding prime number: 23
  • Following prime number: 31
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