168 (number)

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Short description: Natural number
← 167 168 169 →
Cardinalone hundred sixty-eight
Ordinal168th
(one hundred sixty-eighth)
Factorization23 × 3 × 7
Divisors1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 21, 24, 28, 42, 56, 84, 168
Greek numeralΡΞΗ´
Roman numeralCLXVIII
Binary101010002
Ternary200203
Quaternary22204
Quinary11335
Senary4406
Octal2508
Duodecimal12012
HexadecimalA816
Vigesimal8820
Base 364O36

168 (one hundred [and] sixty-eight) is the natural number following 167 and preceding 169.

In mathematics

168 is an even number, a composite number, an abundant number, and an idoneal number.[1]

There are 168 primes less than 1000. 168 is the product of the first two perfect numbers.

168 is the order of the group PSL(2,7), the second smallest nonabelian simple group.

From Hurwitz's automorphisms theorem, 168 is the maximum possible number of automorphisms of a genus 3 Riemann surface, this maximum being achieved by the Klein quartic, whose symmetry group is PSL(2,7).[2] The Fano plane has 168 symmetries.

168 is the largest known n such that 2n does not contain all decimal digits.[3]

168 is the fourth Dedekind number.

In astronomy

In the military

In movies

In transportation

  • New York City Subway stations
    • 168th Street (New York City Subway); a subway station complex at 168th Street and Broadway consisting of:
      • 168th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line); serving the 1 train
      • 168th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line); serving the Template:NYCS Eighth north trains
    • 168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line); was the former terminal of the BMT Jamaica Line in Queens
  • British Rail Class 168
  • VASP Flight 168 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Fortaleza; crashed on June 8, 1982

In other fields

168 is also:

There are 168 pips on a double-six set of dominoes.
  • The year AD 168 or 168 BC
  • 168 AH is a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 784 – 785 CE
  • The number of hours in a week, or 7 x 24 hours
  • In the game of dominoes, tiles are marked with a number of spots, or pips. The Double 6 set (28 tiles) totals 168 pips
  • Tracy 168, a New York City graffiti artist
  • Minuscule 168 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament
  • Some Chinese consider 168 a lucky number, because it is roughly homophonous with the phrase "一路發", which means "fortune all the way", or, as the United States Mint claims- "Prosperity Forever"[4]
  • 168 is the name of the most commonly used laboratory strain of Bacillus subtilis, a bacterium

See also

  • List of highways numbered 168
  • United States Supreme Court cases, Volume 168
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 168

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