It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 11 989 is not a prime number.
For example, 11 989 can be divided by 19: 11 989 / 19 = 631.
For 11 989 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 11 989 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
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11 989 is an odd number, because it is not evenly divisible by 2.
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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 11 989 is about 109.494.
Thus, the square root of 11 989 is not an integer, and therefore 11 989 is not a square number.
The square of a number (here 11 989) is the result of the product of this number (11 989) by itself (i.e., 11 989 × 11 989); the square of 11 989 is sometimes called "raising 11 989 to the power 2", or "11 989 squared".
The square of 11 989 is 143 736 121 because 11 989 × 11 989 = 11 9892 = 143 736 121.
As a consequence, 11 989 is the square root of 143 736 121.
The multiples of 11 989 are all integers evenly divisible by 11 989, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 11 989 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 11 989. The smallest multiples of 11 989 are: