132 (number)

132 (one hundred [and] thirty-two) is the natural number following 131 and preceding 133.

In mathematics

132 is the sixth Catalan number.^[1] It is a pronic number, the product of 11 and 12. As it has 12 divisors total, 132 is a refactorable number.

If you take the sum of all 2-digit numbers you can make from 132, you get 132: . 132 is the smallest number with this property,^[2] which is shared by 264, 396 and 35964 (see digit-reassembly number).^[3]

But there is no number that, when added to the sum of its own digits, sums to 132, therefore 132 is a self number. 132 is also a Harshad number, divisible by the sum of its base-ten digits.

In the military

• 132 Battery (The Bengal Rocket Troop) Royal Artillery of the Royal Artillery
• AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is a British infrared homing ("heat seeking") air-to-air missile in service in the Royal Air Force
• USS Propus (AK-132) was a United States Navy Crater-class cargo ship during World War II
• USNS Mission Santa Clara (T-AO-132) was a Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers during World War II
• USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) was a United States Navy Wickes-class destroyer
• USS Balduck (APD-132) was a United States Navy Crosley-class high-speed transport ship
• USS Barnwell (APA-132) was a United States Navy Haskell-class attack transport during World War II
• USS General J. R. Brooke (AP-132) was a United States Navy transport ship during World War II
• USS Macon (CA-132) was a United States Navy Baltimore-class cruiser during World War II
• USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132) was a United States Navy Edsall-class destroyer escort during World War II
• USS S-27 (SS-132) was a United States Navy S-class submarine
• Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-132 was a United States Navy Strike Fighter Squadron once based at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Florida

In transportation

• The diesel locomotive DR Class 132 was introduced in 1973
• London Buses route 132 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London
• The Fiat 132/Argenta was a large family car
• The SEAT 132 was a four-door rear wheel drive notchback car produced between 1973 and 1982
• The BMW 132 was a nine-cylinder radial aircraft engine introduced in 1933
• STS-132 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the International Space Station that occurred in May 2010.
• The 132 Bus Line, the most used line in Buenos Aires, Argentina

In other fields

132 is also:

• The year AD 132 or 132 BC
• 132 AH is a year in the Islamic calendar that corresponds to 749 – 750 CE
• OGLE-TR-132 is a magnitude 15.72 star in the star fields of the constellation Carina
• 132 Aethra is a M-type main belt asteroid
• Sonnet 132 by William Shakespeare
• 132 is the fire emergency telephone number in Chile
• 132 Street is a thoroughfare in Harlem, New York City
• The number of columns of a Line printer printing in landscape mode on 14-inch paper.
• Refers to the Yo Soy 132 movement to vote in 2012 Mexican elections against PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.
• If counting in binary with your hands, this number comes out to be a double middle finger.

See also

• List of highways numbered 132
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 132
• House at 132 Baltic Circle

References

1. ↑ "Sloane's A000108 : Catalan numbers". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-27. 
2. ↑ Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers London: Penguin Group. (1987): 138
3. ↑ "Sloane's A241754 : Numbers n equal to the sum of all numbers created from permutations of d digits sampled from n". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation.