96 (number)

96 (ninety-six) is the natural number following 95 and preceding 97. It is a number that appears the same when turned upside down.

In mathematics

96 is:

* an octagonal number.
* a refactorable number.
* an untouchable number.
* a semiperfect number since it is a multiple of 6.
* an abundant number since the sum of its proper divisors is greater than 96.
* the fourth Granville number and the second non-perfect Granville number. The next Granville number is 126, the previous being 24.
* the sum of Euler's totient function φ(''x'') over the first seventeen integers.
* strobogrammatic in bases 10 (96₁₀), 11 (88₁₁) and 95 (11₉₅).
* palindromic in bases 11 (88₁₁), 15 (66₁₅), 23 (44₂₃), 31 (33₃₁), 47 (22₄₇) and 95 (11₉₅).
* an Erdős–Woods number, since it is possible to find sequences of 96 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member.
* divisible by the number of prime numbers (24) below 96.

Every integer greater than 96 may be represented as a sum of distinct super-prime numbers.

In geography

* Ninety Six, South Carolina
* Ninety Six District, a historical judicial and military district of colonial America which extended through North and South Carolina
* Ninety Six National Historic Site, in Ninety Six, South Carolina, derives its name from the original settlement's distance in miles from a Cherokee village in the Blue Ridge Mountains

In music

* 96Neko is a female Japanese singer
* The song " 96 Tears" by garage rock band Question Mark and the Mysterians
* "96", a song by Uverworld, a Japanese band.
* "96 Quite Bitter Beings", a song recorded by rock band CKY

In science

*The atomic number of curium, an actinide.
* Messier 96, a magnitude 10.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo
*The New General Catalogue object NGC 96, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

In other fields

* An Australian TV soap opera, ''Number 96'' (broadcast 1972-1977)
**A 1974 film based on the TV series, ''Number 96''
* ''Class of '96'' was a short-lived Fox drama series which aired in 1993
* 96 dpi, the standard resolution of the monitor of an IBM-compatible computer running Microsoft Windows
* The number of surat Al-Alaq in the Qur'an
*According to Gurdjieff's Fourth Way symbolism, the number of the Moon level
*The 96th United States Congress met January 1979 to January 1981 during the last two years of President Jimmy Carter's administration
*The 96th Infantry Division (United States) was a unit of the United States Army in World War II
* , a German U-boat during World War II and subject of the film ''Das Boot''
* The Saab 96 car produced from 1960 to 1966
* STS-96, Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' mission launched May 27, 1999
* Mars 96 was a Russian orbiter launched in 1996
* The designation of American Interstate 96, a freeway in Michigan
* U.S. Route 96 is a north–south route in Texas
* Four New York City Subway stops along 96th Street in Manhattan:
** 96th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line), serving the trains
** 96th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), serving the trains
** 96th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), serving the trains
** 96th Street (IND Second Avenue Line); under construction
* 96th Street (Manhattan)
* A warrior caste divided into 96 clans, Maratha
* 96 was the number of deaths in the Hillsborough Disaster in Sheffield, England
* An Indian movie, 96'' (film)

See also

* List of highways numbered 96

References

External links

On the number 96

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