786 (number)
Encyclopedia
786 is the integer coming after 785 and before 787.
Cardinal
Cardinal number
In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number – the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers describe the sizes of infinite...

 
Seven hundred eighty-six
Ordinal
Ordinal number
In set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals...

 
786th
Factorization
Factorization
In mathematics, factorization or factoring is the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the original...


Roman numeral  DCCLXXXVI
Binary
Binary numeral system
The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. More specifically, the usual base-2 system is a positional notation with a radix of 2...

 
1100010010
Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen...

 
312

In mathematics

786 is a sphenic number
Sphenic number
In number theory, a sphenic number is a positive integer which is the product of three distinct prime numbers.Note that this definition is more stringent than simply requiring the integer to have exactly three prime factors; e.g. 60 = 22 × 3 × 5 has exactly 3 prime factors, but is not sphenic.All...

. 50 can be partitioned into powers of two in 786 different ways .

786 might be the largest n for which the value of the central binomial coefficient
Central binomial coefficient
In mathematics the nth central binomial coefficient is defined in terms of the binomial coefficient byThey are called central since they show up exactly in the middle of the even-numbered rows in Pascal's triangle...

  is not divisible by an odd prime squared. If there is a larger such number, it would have to be at least 157450 (see ).

In astronomy

In the New General Catalogue
New General Catalogue
The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars is a well-known catalogue of deep sky objects in astronomy. It contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects...

, NGC786 is
IS
-Language and words:Words formed from the letters "is" include:*"is", the third form of the verb "to be" at present tense, in the English language. For copulative usage see Copula...

 a magnitude 13.5 spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxy
A spiral galaxy is a certain kind of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence. Spiral galaxies consist of a flat, rotating disk containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as...

 in the constellation Aries
Aries (constellation)
Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac, located between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. Its name is Latin for ram, and its symbol is , representing a ram's horns...

. Additionally, 786 Bredichina
786 Bredichina
-External links:*...

 is an asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

.

In religion

The Arabic letters of the opening phrase of the Qur'an
Qur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...

 sum to the numerical value 786 in the system of Abjad numerals
Abjad numerals
The Abjad numerals are a decimal numeral system in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values. They have been used in the Arabic-speaking world since before the 8th century Arabic numerals...

. Not all Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

s place emphasis on this numerological analysis; however, some — mostly in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

 and Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 — use 786 as a substitute for the phrase بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم bism illāh ir-raḥmān ir-raḥīm ("in the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate")

Area code

786 is a US area code in Miami-Dade County. As an overlay area code, it shares geography with other codes in order to increase the area's pool of usable numbers, bringing ten-digit dialing to the Florida Keys.

In other fields

  • 786, or Seven Eight Six, a Muslim music band
  • 80786 - 7th generation x86 like Athlon
    Athlon
    Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices . The original Athlon was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors...

     and Intel Pentium 4
  • Combat 786
    Combat 786
    Combat 786 is a British gang with some Islamic theme operating in Bradford and Oldham. It views itself as an organisation to protect Muslims from attacks by neo-Nazis and skinheads and its name is a response to that of Combat 18, the gang it sees as its main enemy...

  • The number (when entered as ##786# or *#786#, as it is coincidentally spelling ##RUN#) is used on some Cellular Telephones to gain access to hidden menus, or to access a network monitor

In films

  • Vijay Verma's (Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

    ) coolie number in the film Deewar (1975)
  • Rajnikanth
    Rajnikanth
    Rajinikanth is an Indian film actor, media personality, and cultural icon. He made his debut as an actor in the National Film Award-winning motion picture Apoorva Raagangal , directed by K. Balachander, whom the actor considers his mentor....

    's coolie number in the film Thee
    Thee (film)
    Thee is a 1981 Tamil film directed R. Krishnamurthy. Rajnikanth plays the lead role and Suman plays the role of his brother. It is a remake of the classic Hindi film Deewar starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor and directed by Yash Chopra.-Plot:...

    , which again was a remake of the Hindi film, Deewar
  • Iqbal Khan (Screen Name of Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

     in Coolie
    Coolie (1983 film)
    Coolie is a 1983 Indian Bollywood film directed by Manmohan Desai. The film starsAmitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Kader Khan, Suresh Oberoi and Puneet Issar...

    ) had this number for his coolie
    Coolie
    Historically, a coolie was a manual labourer or slave from Asia, particularly China, India, and the Phillipines during the 19th century and early 20th century...

     number called Billa no. 786 (Badge # 786)
  • Amitabh Bachchan has indicated that he thinks this is an auspicious number as the film Deewar (1975) was his first big hit and while wearing this number during the shooting of the movie Coolie, he was seriously injured but survived.
  • Chiranjeevi, the famous Telugu Megastar sported this number in this film Kaidhi Number 786 as he has a considerable following amongst the Muslim youth of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India
  • Veer Pratap Singh's (Shahrukh Khan
    Shahrukh Khan
    Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films....

    ) prisoner number in the film Veer-Zaara
    Veer-Zaara
    The soundtrack was released on CD and specially on Audio DVD. The music is based on old and untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by his son Sanjeev Kohli....

  • Registration number of Sultan
    Sultan
    Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

    's car in the movie Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai is MRH 786

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