88 (number)

88 (eighty-eight) is the natural number following 87 and preceding 89.

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Cardinal	88 eighty-eight
Ordinal	88th eighty-eighth
Factorization	$2^{3}\cdot 11$
Divisors	1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 44, 88
Roman numeral	LXXXVIII
Binary	01011000
Hexadecimal	58

In mathematics

Eighty-eight is a symmetrical or palindromic number, a primitive semiperfect number, a refactorable number and an untouchable number. It is also a 16-gonal number.

In astronomy

• The number of constellations in the sky as defined by the International Astronomical Union
• Messier object M88, a magnitude 11.0 spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
• The New General Catalogue object NGC 88, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix, and a member of Robert's Quartet
• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -246 October 6 and ended on 1233 March 12. The duration of Saros series 88 was 1478.4 years, and it contained 83 solar eclipses. Further, the Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on 38 July 5 and ended on 1336 August 23. The duration of Saros series 88 was 1298.1 years, and it contained 73 lunar eclipses.

In sports

88 is the jersey number of several superstar athletes:

• • Dallas Stars forward Eric Lindros, who has worn it with the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs.
  • Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez.
  • Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison.
  • former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin.
  • former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and Pennsylvania Gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann.

It was also the number on Dale Jarrett's NASCAR racecar in 1999, the year he won the Winston Cup Championship.

Neo-Nazi symbol

Eighty-eight is used as code among white supremacists to identify each other. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is taken to stand for HH which in turn means Heil Hitler. [1] For example, the number is used in the song "88 rock`n`roll band" by the neo-Nazi group Landser. This has caused controversy in the past, when trendspotters for the Target Corporation noticed the symbol and began its use on hats and T-shirts, unaware of its meaning. " 14 is used similarly, referring to the so-called "Fourteen Words", often found in combination with 88 (1488, 14/88, etc.). This form of the number has inspired the naming of the groups Column 88, Unit 88 and White Legion 88.

In other fields

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Eighty-eight is also:

• a popular ice cream bar manufactured by GB Glace as part of their Nogger product line.
• the atomic number of radium
• the number of keys on a piano (36 black and 52 white)
• in the title of the songs:
  • "Rocket 88"
  • "88 Lines About 44 Women" by the musical group The Nails
  • "88" by the Canadian punk band Sum 41 on their 2004 album, Chuck.

Olds 88

• the model number of the Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight automobile and the AGM-88 HARM missile
• the caliber of the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun used in World War II, commonly known as 88 (acht-acht in German)
• the number of the French department Vosges
• the designation of two freeways named Interstate 88: one in Illinois and the other in New York
• the town of Eighty Eight, Kentucky
• the number of temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan
• used
  • in sexual parlance to describe oral sex performed twice (ate twice)
  • in Japanese, often used to mean "a great many" or "countless"; numbers such as eighteen, eighty, eighty thousand, eight-hundred eighty thousand and the like can bear the same connotation.
  • in hip hop, in the case of which 88 = HH = hiphop
  • in amateur radio for "hugs and kisses"
• in Star Wars, part of the name of the four IG-88 robots
• in Radio Station In Israel[2]
• in Kill Bill, the name of O-Ren Ishii's Army, the Crazy 88
• the ISBN Group Identifier for books published in Italy and Switzerland
• in miles per hour, the speed the DeLorean automobile must attain in order to travel in time, in the Back to the Future trilogy
• in the TV series Black Books (Series 2, Episode 2: "Fever"), the temperature (presumably in fahrenheit) above which Manny's case of Dave's Syndrome will trigger. This is suspected to be a parody of the use of the number 88 in the Back to the Future trilogy (See preceding point)
• the number of Athena's saints (knights) in Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac)
• the number of floors of Petronas Towers, as of 2005 the world's tallest twin buildings
• in Bingo, 88 is known as "Two Fat Ladies"
• the year AD 88, 88 BC, or 1988
• The 88, a power pop band from Los Angeles
• was described as "The number of the Anti-Terrorist" in the documents submitted to NBC by Cho Seung-hui prior to the massacre at Virginia Tech on 16 April 2007 [3]
• is the number of an anti-terrorist police squad, called "Detachment 88" (Detasemen Khusus) set up by the Indonesian government following the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
• Used for "goodbye" in Chinese online chatting and SMS: 8 is pronounced "ba", hence 88 is "baba", resembling the pronunciation of "bye-bye."
• Used to say "kisses and hugs" among morse code users, as it resembles an image of two lips kissing.