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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[]

  • — 89 is divisible by 1.
  • — 89 is not divisible by 2-88.
  • — 89 is divisible by 89.

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[]

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.

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