Number reference
60 explained.
60: sixty, composite, highly composite; factors, prime factorization, roots, binary, hexadecimal, and digit properties.
Identity and representations
- Written form
- sixty
- Classification
- composite
- Factors
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60
- Prime factorization
- 2 × 2 × 3 × 5
- Square root
- 7.745967
- Cube root
- 3.914868
- Binary
- 111100
- Octal
- 74
- Hexadecimal
- 3C
- Roman numeral
- LX
- Digit sum
- 6
- Digital root
- 6
What makes 60 notable
- Highly composite. 60 has 12 divisors — more than any smaller positive number. That is why numbers like this get chosen for units of time, angle, and packaging.
60 in everyday use
Sixty is the number of seconds in a minute and minutes in an hour, inherited from Babylonian sexagesimal counting. It survives because it divides evenly twelve different ways.
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How to read this page
The factor list shows every way 60 splits into equal whole-number groups — 12 divisors in total. The prime factorisation is the compact form of that same information, and the base conversions restate 60 for contexts that do not use decimal.
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