252 (number)

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Cardinal	two hundred fifty-two
Ordinal	252nd (two hundred and fifty-second)
Factorization	22× 32× 7
Divisors	1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 18, 21, 28, 36, 42, 63, 84, 126, 252
Roman numeral	CCLII
Binary	111111002
Ternary	1001003
Quaternary	33304
Quinary	20025
Senary	11006
Octal	3748
Duodecimal	19012
Hexadecimal	FC16
Vigesimal	CC20
Base 36	7036

252 (two hundred [and] fifty-two) is the natural number following 251 and preceding 253.

252 is the central binomial coefficient $\tbinom{10}{5}$, and is $\tau(3)$, where $\tau$ is the Ramanujan tau function. 252 is also $\sigma_3(6)$, where $\sigma_3$ is the function that sums the cubes of the divisors of its argument:

$1^3+2^3+3^3+6^3=(1^3+2^3)(1^3+3^3)=252.$

It is a practical number, and a hexagonal pyramidal number. There are 252 points on the surface of a cuboctahedron of radius five in the fcc lattice, 252 ways of writing the number 4 as a sum of six squares of integers, 252 ways of choosing four squares from a 4×4 chessboard up to reflections and rotations, and 252 ways of placing four pieces on a Connect Four board.