Number analysis
55
55 is a composite odd number that factors as 5 × 11.
55 is a composite odd number that factors as 5 × 11.
The number itself
- Value
- 55
- Digits
- 2
- Digit sum
- 10
- Reversed
- 55
- Palindrome
- Yes
5 + 5
Digit sum repeated until one digit remains; equals n mod 9 (with 9 for multiples of 9).
Reads the same in both directions.
Parity and primality
- Parity
- Odd
- Prime
- No
- Prime factorisation
- 5 × 11
- Squarefree
- Yes
- Semiprime
- Yes
- Möbius μ(n)
- 1
- Nearest primes
- 53 ← → 59
Leaves remainder 1 on division by 2.
Composite — it factors as 5 × 11.
2 distinct prime factors, 2 with multiplicity.
No prime divides it twice.
A product of exactly two primes, counted with multiplicity.
(−1) to the power of 2 distinct prime factors.
A gap of 6 between them.
Divisors
- Aliquot sum
- 17
- Classification
- Deficient
1, 5, 11, 55
The proper divisors — everything except n itself.
Its proper divisors fall short by 38.
How many integers from 1 to n share no factor with n.
Sums and additive structure
- Sum of two squares
- No
- Sum of three squares
- No
- Sum of four squares
- Yes
A prime congruent to 3 mod 4 divides it an odd number of times, which rules it out.
Excluded by Legendre: it has the form 4^a(8b + 7).
Lagrange's four-square theorem: every non-negative integer is, without exception.
Shapes and sequences
- Triangular number
- Yes — the 10th
- Fibonacci number
- Yes — index 10
Digit curiosities
- Happy number
- No
- Harshad number
- No
- Kaprekar number
- Yes
- Collatz trajectory
- 112 steps to 1
Summing the squares of its digits falls into the 4 → 16 → 37 → … → 4 cycle.
Not divisible by its digit sum 10.
Peaks at 9,232 along the way.
Written other ways
- Binary
- 110111
- Octal
- 67
- Hexadecimal
- 37
- Base 36
- 1J
- In words
- fifty-five
- Scientific notation
- 5.5 × 10^1
Is 55 a prime number?
Composite — it factors as 5 × 11.
Nearby numbers
Other numeral systems
Beyond the bases and Roman numerals above, these notations write 55 their own way.
- Greek (alphabetic)
- ΝΕʹ
- Babylonian cuneiform
- 𒐐𒐙
- Tamil
- ௫௰௫
References
Further reading: Wikipedia · Wikidata
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