What three numbers multiply to get 256?

What three numbers multiply to get 256? In other words, you want to know all the combinations of 3 numbers that can be multiplied to get 256. You want to know what all the question marks in the equation below can be in order for the equation to be true:

? × ? × ? = 256

First, note that all numbers must be 256 or less, which means that there are 256 × 256 × 256 possible solutions. Thus, to get the answer to "What three numbers multiply to get 256?" we looked at 16,777,216 different combinations to see which ones equal 256.

When we looked at all those combinations, we found 45 different combinations of 3 numbers that equal 256 when multiplied together. Here are all 3 number combinations that you can multiply to get 256:

256 × 1 × 1 = 256
128 × 2 × 1 = 256
128 × 1 × 2 = 256
64 × 4 × 1 = 256
64 × 2 × 2 = 256
64 × 1 × 4 = 256
32 × 8 × 1 = 256
32 × 4 × 2 = 256
32 × 2 × 4 = 256
32 × 1 × 8 = 256
16 × 16 × 1 = 256
16 × 8 × 2 = 256
16 × 4 × 4 = 256
16 × 2 × 8 = 256
16 × 1 × 16 = 256
8 × 32 × 1 = 256
8 × 16 × 2 = 256
8 × 8 × 4 = 256
8 × 4 × 8 = 256
8 × 2 × 16 = 256
8 × 1 × 32 = 256
4 × 64 × 1 = 256
4 × 32 × 2 = 256
4 × 16 × 4 = 256
4 × 8 × 8 = 256
4 × 4 × 16 = 256
4 × 2 × 32 = 256
4 × 1 × 64 = 256
2 × 128 × 1 = 256
2 × 64 × 2 = 256
2 × 32 × 4 = 256
2 × 16 × 8 = 256
2 × 8 × 16 = 256
2 × 4 × 32 = 256
2 × 2 × 64 = 256
2 × 1 × 128 = 256
1 × 256 × 1 = 256
1 × 128 × 2 = 256
1 × 64 × 4 = 256
1 × 32 × 8 = 256
1 × 16 × 16 = 256
1 × 8 × 32 = 256
1 × 4 × 64 = 256
1 × 2 × 128 = 256
1 × 1 × 256 = 256

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