Is 241 a prime number? What are the divisors of 241?

Parity of 241

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

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Is 241 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 241 is about 15.524.

Thus, the square root of 241 is not an integer, and therefore 241 is not a square number.

Anyway, 241 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.

What is the square number of 241?

The square of a number (here 241) is the result of the product of this number (241) by itself (i.e., 241 × 241); the square of 241 is sometimes called "raising 241 to the power 2", or "241 squared".

The square of 241 is 58 081 because 241 × 241 = 2412 = 58 081.

As a consequence, 241 is the square root of 58 081.

Number of digits of 241

241 is a number with 3 digits.

What are the multiples of 241?

The multiples of 241 are all integers evenly divisible by 241, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 241 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 241. The smallest multiples of 241 are:

  • 0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 241 too, since 0 × 241 = 0
  • 241: indeed, 241 is a multiple of itself, since 241 is evenly divisible by 241 (we have 241 / 241 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
  • 482: indeed, 482 = 241 × 2
  • 723: indeed, 723 = 241 × 3
  • 964: indeed, 964 = 241 × 4
  • 1 205: indeed, 1 205 = 241 × 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 241). 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 15.524). 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 241

  • Preceding numbers: …239, 240
  • Following numbers: 242, 243…

Nearest numbers from 241

  • Preceding prime number: 239
  • Following prime number: 251
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