71 is a prime number from 1-100. 71 has 2 factors, 1 and 71. It is the twentieth prime number, and the twentieth prime number from 1-100.
Proofs[]
Therefore, 71 has two factors and is prime.
As an Exponent of Mersenne Number[]
271 - 1 can be divided by numbers such as 228,479 and 48,544,121, and is therefore not a prime number.
Relationship with other odd numbers[]
The numbers before[]
- 65 is a composite number. Its prime factorization is 5 * 13.
- 67 is the previous prime number.
- The difference between 71 and 67 is 4. Therefore, they are cousin primes.
- 69, the previous odd number, is a composite number. Its prime factorization is 3 * 23.
The numbers after[]
- 73 is the next odd number, as well as the next prime number.
- The difference between 73 and 71 is 2. Therefore, they are twin primes.
- 75 is a composite number. Its prime factorization is 3 * 52.
- 77 is also a composite number. Its prime factorization is 7 * 11.
- 79 is the second next prime number.
Trivia[]
- 71 is an emirp, since its reverse, 17, is also prime.
- This also means that, since all permutations of 71 are prime, 71 is a permutable prime.
- 71 is a Pillai prime, since 9! + 1 is divisible by 71, but 71 is not one more than a multiple of 9.
- 71 is a centered heptagonal number.
- 71 is part of the last known pair of Brown numbers along with 7, since 712 = 7! + 1.
- 71 is the 15th and largest supersingular prime.