172 (number)

172 1, 2, 4, 43, 86, 172 172 (one hundred [and] seventy-two) is the natural number following 171 and preceding 173. In mathematics 172 is a part of a near-miss for being a counterexample to Fermat's Last Theorem, as 1353 + 1383 = 1723 − 1. This is only the third near-miss of this form, two cubes adding to one less than a third cube.A050787 It is also a "thickened cube number", half an odd cube (73 = 343) rounded up to the next integer.A050492 Thickened cube numbers See also 172 References 1 Category:Integers