It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
No, 8 997 is not a prime number.
For example, 8 997 can be divided by 3: 8 997 / 3 = 2 999.
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For 8 997 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 8 997 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.
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8 997 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 8 997 is about 94.853.
Thus, the square root of 8 997 is not an integer, and therefore 8 997 is not a square number.
The square of a number (here 8 997) is the result of the product of this number (8 997) by itself (i.e., 8 997 × 8 997); the square of 8 997 is sometimes called "raising 8 997 to the power 2", or "8 997 squared".
The square of 8 997 is 80 946 009 because 8 997 × 8 997 = 8 9972 = 80 946 009.
As a consequence, 8 997 is the square root of 80 946 009.
The multiples of 8 997 are all integers evenly divisible by 8 997, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 8 997 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 8 997. The smallest multiples of 8 997 are: