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A composite number is a positive integer that has a positive divisor other than one or itself. In other words a composite number is any positive integer greater than one that is not a prime number.

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What is composite for math mean?

Composite numbers have three or more factors.


What is prime and composite numbers mean?

Prime numbers are numbers with only two factors. Composite numbers are numbers with more than two factors.


What does prime composite mean?

Prime numbers have two factors; composite numbers have more than two.


What does compostite numbers mean?

Numbers that have more than two factors are composite numbers


Are composite numbers always even?

No - although all positive even numbers other than 2 are composite, this does not mean that all composite numbers are even - the first odd composite number is 9, which is equal to 3 x 3.


What does prime or composite mean?

Prime designates numbers with exactly two factors. Composite designates numbers with more than two factors.


What does composite factors mean?

All numbers have factors. Some factors are prime numbers, some are composite numbers, one is neither. The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 Since 4, 6 and 12 are composite numbers, they are the composite factors of 12.


Is true that two composite numbers are relatively prime?

No it does not mean that.


What are the composite numbers between 3674402385 to the next composite numbers?

If you mean: 36 74 40 23 and 85 then they are all composite numbers except for 23 which is a prime number because it has only two factors which are itself and one


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If you mean 987,504 then it is a composite number


Which of this numbers is composite 293959 or 79?

If you mean 29, 39, 59 and 79 then it is 39 that is the only composite number.


Are composite numbers even numbers?

Not all composite numbers are even, but all even numbers except 2 are composite.