96 (number)

96 (ninety-six) is the natural number following 95 and preceding 97. It is a number that, when turned upside down, is still itself. Some other numbers that equal themselves include 69, 0, 88, and in some cases, 1 and 11

In mathematics[]

96 is:

• an octagonal number.^[1]
• a refactorable number.^[2]
• an untouchable number.^[3]
• 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.
• 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.^[4]
• 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
• , 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 soap opera, 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
• German submarine U-96, 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 1, ​2, and ​3 trains
  • 96th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), serving the A, ​B, and ​C trains
  • 96th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), serving the 4, ​6, and <6> 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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