88 (number)

88 is:

• a refactorable number.[1]
• a primitive semiperfect number.[2]
• an untouchable number.[3]
• a hexadecagonal number.[4]
• an Erdős–Woods number, since it is possible to find sequences of 88 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member.[5]
• a palindromic number in bases 5 (323₅), 10 (88₁₀), 21 (44₂₁), and 43 (22₄₃).
• a repdigit in bases 10, 21 and 43.
• a 2-automorphic number.[6]
• the smallest positive integer with a Zeckendorf representation requiring 5 Fibonacci numbers.
• a strobogrammatic number.[7]
• the largest number in English not containing the letter 'n' in its name, when using short scale.

88 and 945 are the smallest coprime abundant numbers.

• The atomic number of the element radium.
• 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.
• Space Shuttle Mission 88 (STS-88), launched and completed in December 1998, began the construction of the International Space Station.
• Approximately the number of days it takes Mercury to complete its orbit.

Eighty-eight (88) is also:

• a popular ice cream bar manufactured by GB Glace
• the number of keys on a typical piano (36 black and 52 white); a piano is sometimes called an "eighty-eight"
• 88 Keys, character in the 1990 Dick Tracy film
• Eighty Eight, a live album by the Christian rock band the 77s
• in the titles of songs:
  • "Rocket 88", a song first recorded at Sam Phillips' studio in 1951; Rocket 88 was a 1980s United Kingdom band named for the song
  • "88 Lines About 44 Women" by the band The Nails
  • "88 Seconds in Greensboro" by the English new wave band OMD on their 1985 album, Crush
  • "88" by the Canadian punk band Sum 41 on their 2004 album, Chuck
  • "88" by the English nu-metal band Apartment 26 on their second album, Music for the Massive
  • "88", a song by Level 42 on the album Strategy
  • "88" by hip hop act the Cool Kids
  • "88" by the Japanese electro-pop duo LM.C

Olds 88

• the model number of the Oldsmobile 88 automobile and the AGM-88 HARM missile
• the QBU-88 (or Type 88) Chinese sniper rifle
• the number of the French department of Vosges
• the designation of two freeways named Interstate 88, one in Illinois and another in New York
• in Chinese SMS or chat, short for "bye bye", from the Mandarin pronunciation "ba1 ba1" (8 - 8)
• in hip hop, where "88" stands for "HH", short for "hip hop"
• 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
• "the number of the Anti-Terrorist" in the documents submitted to NBC by Seung-Hui Cho prior to the Virginia Tech shooting on 16 April 2007 [16]
• the number of an anti-terrorist police squad, called "Detachment 88", set up by the Indonesian government following the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians
• Tanner '88, Garry Trudeau's HBO series on the fictional campaign of Congressman Jack Tanner in his bid for the White House
• 88 Minutes, a 2008 film starring Al Pacino
• 88, a 2015 Canadian thriller film
• 88rising, hip hop and rap collective and record label consisting of primarily Asian and Asian American artists.
• the Group of 88, a group of 88 professors at Duke University who signed a controversial advertisement published after a woman falsely claimed to have been raped by members of Duke's lacrosse team
• the Cambridge Z88 was a 1988 portable computer
• 88open was an industry standards group in 1988 created by Motorola to standardize Unix systems
• an '88-level' is a named condition in the COBOL programming language
• The House on East 88th Street, a book by Bernard Waber
• 88-Keys, an American record producer and rapper
• 88Glam, a Canadian hip-hop duo
• Two genera of butterflies (Diaethria and Callicore) are called eighty-eights because markings on their wings look like the number 88.
• The German 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41 anti-aircraft gun used in WWII was often referred to colloquially as an "88" (German: acht-acht).
• R88 is the designation for "all runways" in METAR/TAF weather data
• The 88 is an American pop rock band.
• "Lucky 88", a song by Speedy Ortiz