176 (number)

176 is the natural number following 175 and preceding 177.

In mathematics

176 is an even number and an abundant number. It is an odious number, a self number, a semiperfect number, and a practical number.
176 is a cake number, a happy number, a pentagonal number, and an octagonal number. 15 can be partitioned in 176 ways.
The Higman–Sims group can be constructed as a doubly transitive permutation group acting on a geometry containing 176 points, and it is also the symmetry group of the largest possible set of equiangular lines in 22 dimensions, which contains 176 lines.