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108 (one hundred [and] eight) is the natural number following 107 and preceding 109. Its prime factorization is

108 is:

  • an abundant number.
  • a semiperfect number.
  • a tetranacci number.
  • the hyperfactorial of 3 since it is of the form .
  • divisible by the value of its φ function, which is 36.
  • divisible by the total number of its divisors (12), hence it is a refactorable number.
  • the angle in degrees of the interior angles of a regular pentagon in Euclidean space.
  • palindromic in bases 11 (9911), 17 (6617), 26 (4426), 35 (3335) and 53 (2253)
  • a Harshad number in bases 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 16
  • a self number.
  • an Achilles number because it is a powerful number but not a perfect power.
  • nine dozen

There are 108 free polyominoes of order 7.

The equation  results in the golden ratio.

This could be restated as saying that the "chord" of 108 degrees is , the golden ratio.

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