Is 6959 a prime number?

6 959 is an odd number, because it is not evenly divisible by 2.

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• What is an even 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 6 959 is about 83.421.

Thus, the square root of 6 959 is not an integer, and therefore 6 959 is not a square number.

Anyway, 6 959 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.

The square of a number (here 6 959) is the result of the product of this number (6 959) by itself (i.e., 6 959 × 6 959); the square of 6 959 is sometimes called "raising 6 959 to the power 2", or "6 959 squared".

The square of 6 959 is 48 427 681 because 6 959 × 6 959 = 6 959² = 48 427 681.

As a consequence, 6 959 is the square root of 48 427 681.

6 959 is a number with 4 digits.

The multiples of 6 959 are all integers evenly divisible by 6 959, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 6 959 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 6 959. The smallest multiples of 6 959 are:

• 0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 6 959 too, since 0 × 6 959 = 0
• 6 959: indeed, 6 959 is a multiple of itself, since 6 959 is evenly divisible by 6 959 (we have 6 959 / 6 959 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
• 13 918: indeed, 13 918 = 6 959 × 2
• 20 877: indeed, 20 877 = 6 959 × 3
• 27 836: indeed, 27 836 = 6 959 × 4
• 34 795: indeed, 34 795 = 6 959 × 5
• etc.

• Preceding numbers: …6 957, 6 958
• Following numbers: 6 960, 6 961…

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• Preceding prime number: 6 949
• Following prime number: 6 961

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