786 (number)

786 (seven hundred [and] eighty-six) is the natural number following 785 and preceding 787.

For the year, see 786.

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Cardinal	seven hundred eighty-six
Ordinal	786th (seven hundred eighty-sixth)
Factorization	2 × 3 × 131
Greek numeral	ΨΠϚ´
Roman numeral	DCCLXXXVI, dcclxxxvi
Binary	11000100102
Ternary	10020103
Senary	33506
Octal	14228
Duodecimal	55612
Hexadecimal	31216

In mathematics

786 is:

• a sphenic number.
• a harshad number in bases 4, 5, 7, 14 and 16.
• the aliquot sum of 510.
• part of the 321329-aliquot tree. The complete aliquot sequence starting at 498 is: 498, 510, 786, 798, 1122, 1470, 2634, 2646, 4194, 4932, 7626, 8502, 9978, 9990, 17370, 28026, 35136, 67226, 33616, 37808, 40312, 35288, 37072, 45264, 79728, 146448, 281166, 281178, 363942, 424638, 526338, 722961, 321329, 1, 0

786 might be the largest n for which the value of the central binomial coefficient ${\displaystyle {}_{2n}\!C_{n}}$ is not divisible by an odd prime squared. If there is a larger such number, it would have to be at least 157450 (see OEIS: A059097).

In other fields

• In the New General Catalogue, NGC786 is a magnitude 13.5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries. Additionally, 786 Bredichina is an asteroid.
• In juggling, 786 as fourhanded Siteswap is also known as French threecount.^{[citation needed]}

In culture

Indian Muslims associate the number with the basmala by summing up of all the numerical values of each Arabic letter making up the phrase.^[1] This auspiciousness has led it to often feature in films from the country.

• Vijay Verma's (Amitabh Bachchan) coolie number in the 1975 Hindi film Deewaar.
  • Raja's (Rajnikanth) coolie number in the 1981 Tamil film Thee, a remake of Deewaar.
• Iqbal Khan's (Amitabh Bachchan) coolie number in the 1983 Hindi film Coolie.
  • Bachchan has indicated that he believes the number is auspicious, as he survived a serious injury while wearing this number during the shooting of Coolie.
• Chiranjeevi sported this number in the 1988 Telugu film Khaidi No.786.
• Veer Pratap Singh's (Shahrukh Khan) prisoner number in the 2004 Hindi film Veer-Zaara.
• Sultan's (Ajay Devgan) car in the 2010 Hindi film Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai bears the registration number MRH 786.
• In the 2011 Tamil film Mankatha, in the scene where Vinayak Mahadev (Ajith Kumar) shoots Prem (Premgi Amaren), Prem wears a gold plate on his chest with the number 786 written on it.
• Ashish R Mohan's 2012 Hindi film Khiladi 786 features Akshay Kumar in the title role. The same film was released in Pakistan without the number 786.^[2]