89 is a prime number between 1 and 100. 89 has two factors, 1 and 89. It is the 24th prime number, and the 24th prime number from 1-100.
Proofs[]
Therefore, 89 is a prime number.
As an Exponent of Mersenne Number[]
289 - 1, which is equal to 618,970,019,642,690,137,449,562,111, is a prime number and the tenth Mersenne prime.
Relationship with other odd numbers[]
The numbers before[]
- 83 is the previous prime number.
- The difference between 89 and 83 is 6; therefore, they are sexy primes.
- 85 is a composite number; its prime factorization is 5 * 17.
- 87 is also a composite number; its prime factorization is 3 * 29.
The numbers after[]
- 91 is a composite number; its prime factorization is 7 * 13.
- 93 is also a composite number; its prime factorization is 3 * 31.
- 95 is yet another composite number; its prime factorization is 5 * 19.
- 97 is the next prime number.
- The difference between 97 and 89 is 8; the largest gap between consecutive 2-digit prime numbers.
In science[]
- 89 is the atomic number of actinium.
Trivia[]
- Although 89 is not a Lychrel number in base 10, it takes an unusually large 24 iterations of the reverse-and-add process to reach a palindrome, the most out of any number less than 10,000 known to reach a palindrome. The palindrome reached, 8,813,200,023,188, is also unusually large.
- 89 is a Fibonacci prime.
- The reciprocal of 89 returns the first few Fibonacci numbers:
- 89 is a Chen prime, since 89 + 2 = 91 is a semiprime.
- 89 is a Pythagorean prime:
- There are exactly 1,000 prime numbers between 1 and 892 = 7,921.