highly composite number

Meaning

Noun

• A positive integer that has more divisors than any smaller positive integer.
• A positive integer that has a relatively large number of divisors.

Related

Similar words

• HCN , antiprime

Narrower meaning words

• superior highly composite number

Broader meaning words

• composite number, largely composite number

Origin

• Coined by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1915, although it has been suggested that Plato may have known of the concept, since he specified 5040 (a highly composite number) as the ideal number of citizens in a city.