It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 16 559 is not a prime number.
For example, 16 559 can be divided by 29: 16 559 / 29 = 571.
For 16 559 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 16 559 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
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16 559 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 16 559 is about 128.682.
Thus, the square root of 16 559 is not an integer, and therefore 16 559 is not a square number.
The square of a number (here 16 559) is the result of the product of this number (16 559) by itself (i.e., 16 559 × 16 559); the square of 16 559 is sometimes called "raising 16 559 to the power 2", or "16 559 squared".
The square of 16 559 is 274 200 481 because 16 559 × 16 559 = 16 5592 = 274 200 481.
As a consequence, 16 559 is the square root of 274 200 481.
The multiples of 16 559 are all integers evenly divisible by 16 559, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 16 559 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 16 559. The smallest multiples of 16 559 are: