What are Composite Numbers in Maths?
Definition 1: In Mathematics, composite numbers are numbers that have more than two factors.
Definition 2: The numbers which can be generated by multiplying the two smallest positive integers and contain at least one divisor other than the number ‘1’ and itself are known as composite numbers. These numbers always have more than two factors.
Fact: Any even number which is greater than 2 is a composite number.
Is 0 a Composite Number?
Zero (0) is considered as neither prime nor a composite number because it does not have any factors.
Composite Numbers Examples
The examples of composite numbers are 6, 14, 25, 30, 52, etc, such that:
| Composite numbers | Factors |
| 6 | 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| 14 | 1, 2, 7, 14 |
| 25 | 1, 5, 25 |
| 30 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 |
| 52 | 1, 2, 4, 13, 26, 52 |
In all the above examples, we can see the composite numbers have more than two factors. There are a number of composite numbers we can list out of a set of natural numbers from 1 to 1000 or more. Let us see the list of composite numbers in the next section.
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