96 (number) explained

Number:	96
Divisor:	1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 96

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.^[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.
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.^[4]
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:

10^2-2²

11^2-5²

14^2-10²

25^2-23²

\chi=-96.

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

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

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.

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

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
An Indian movie, 96 (film)

Web site: Sloane's A000567 : Octagonal numbers. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. 2016-05-28.
Web site: Sloane's A033950 : Refactorable numbers. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. 2016-05-28.
Web site: Sloane's A005114 : Untouchable numbers. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. 2016-05-28.
Web site: Sloane's A059756 : Erdős-Woods numbers. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. 2016-05-28.