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No, only square numbers have an odd number of factors.
No. 24 has 3 as a factor. 30 has 15 as a factor.
Numbers with only two factors, the number itself and one, are called prime numbers. Examples of prime numbers are 2 (which is the only even prime number) and 17.
Factors come in pairs. It is only in the case of a square number that the two middle factors are equal and so are counted only once.
There are square numbers (numbers which are a square of an integer), such as 4. It's factors, listed are 1, 2, and 4. All square numbers have an odd number of factors. Then there's 1, which has only 1 factor: 1. All other numbers have an even number of factors. Prime numbers will have only 2 factors (2 is even).