Composite Number/Examples/8

Example of Composite Number

$8$ is a composite number, because:

$8 = 4 \times 2$

and so has $1$, $2$, $4$ and $8$ as divisors.

Thus it has more than $2$ positive divisors, and hence is so classified.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): factorable: 1.
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): factorable: 1.