It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 3 488 is not a prime number.
For example, 3 488 can be divided by 2: 3 488 / 2 = 1 744.
For 3 488 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 3 488 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
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3 488 is an even number, because it is evenly divisible by 2: 3 488 / 2 = 1 744.
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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 3 488 is about 59.059.
Thus, the square root of 3 488 is not an integer, and therefore 3 488 is not a square number.
The square of a number (here 3 488) is the result of the product of this number (3 488) by itself (i.e., 3 488 × 3 488); the square of 3 488 is sometimes called "raising 3 488 to the power 2", or "3 488 squared".
The square of 3 488 is 12 166 144 because 3 488 × 3 488 = 3 4882 = 12 166 144.
As a consequence, 3 488 is the square root of 12 166 144.
The multiples of 3 488 are all integers evenly divisible by 3 488, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 3 488 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 3 488. The smallest multiples of 3 488 are: