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.
 * the smallest natural number that can be expressed as the difference of two nonzero squares in more than three ways: $$10^2-2^2$$, $$11^2-5^2$$, $$14^2-10^2$$ or $$25^2-23^2$$.

Skilling's figure, a degenerate uniform polyhedron, has a Euler characteristic $$\chi=-96.$$

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

 * 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
 * "96 Degrees In The Shade", a song on an album with the same title (official song title "1865", recorded by Jamaican reggae band Third World.

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
 * GS U-96 (1940), 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
 * An Indian movie, '96 (film)