Patterns /Number Theory

Highly Divisible Numbers

These numbers have at least a hundred distinct divisors — the opposite extreme from primes, which have exactly two.

Matches in range
2,809
Share of all numbers
1 in 356
Out of
1,000,001

How long might highly divisible numbers take?

1 in 356 per roll · 356 rolls on average.

At one daily specimen a day, the mean is about 1 years. A 50% chance takes 247 rolls; 90% takes 819.

7 daily rolls

1.95%

30 daily rolls

8.09%

365 daily rolls

64.18%

8.09% chance of at least one match in 30 independent rolls.

Waiting times are averages, not deadlines. Previous misses do not increase the next roll’s chance. Only Daily Specimens stamp your Atlas.

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Divisor counts come from the exponents in a number's prime factorisation, so reaching a hundred requires several small primes raised to several powers at once. Numbers like 720720 = 2⁴ × 3² × 5 × 7 × 11 × 13 are the result.

This is a demanding threshold: the count above shows how few numbers in the range clear it. Most numbers under a million have fewer than thirty divisors.

Highly divisible numbers are why calendars, clocks and old measurement systems favour 12, 60 and 360 — dividing evenly in many ways is genuinely useful, and genuinely uncommon.

Highest-scoring examples

The best-scoring numbers of four digits or more that carry this pattern. Shorter numbers are excluded here because their length alone dominates any score ranking.

Smallest examples

The first numbers in the range that match this pattern.

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