248 (number)

248 (two hundred [and] forty-eight) is the natural number following 247 and preceding 249.

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Cardinal	two hundred forty-eight
Ordinal	248th (two hundred and forty-eighth)
Factorization	2^3× 31
Roman numeral	CCXLVIII
Binary	111110002
Ternary	1000123
Quaternary	33204
Quinary	14435
Senary	10526
Octal	3708
Duodecimal	18812
Hexadecimal	F816
Vigesimal	C820
Base 36	6W36

In mathematics

248 is:

• a nontotient.
• a refactorable number.
• an untouchable number.^[1]
• palindromic in bases 13 (161₁₃), 30 (88₃₀), 61 (44₆₁), 123 (22₁₂₃) and 247 (11₂₄₇).
• a Harshad number in bases 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 (and 18 other bases).
• part of the 43-aliquot tree. The aliquot sequence starting at 248 is: 248, 232, 218, 112, 136, 134, 70, 74, 40, 50, 43, 1, 0.

The exceptional Lie group E₈ has dimension 248.

In religion

• The number 248 is the Gematria value for the Hebrew letters Ramach (Resh Mem and Het), traditionally depicted as the number of organs in the human body, and the number of positive commandments in the Torah.

References

1. "Sloane's A005114 : Untouchable numbers: impossible values for sum of aliquot parts of n". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation.