76 (number)

In mathematics

• a Lucas number.
• an automorphic number.
• a nontotient.
• a 14-gonal number.
• a centered pentagonal number.
• a telephone number.
• an Erdős–Woods number since it is possible to find sequences of 76 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member.
• One of two 2-digit numbers whose square, and higher powers, end in the same two digits. The other is.

  In science

• The atomic number of osmium.
• The Little Dumbbell Nebula in the constellation Pegasus is designated as Messier object 76.

  In other fields

• In colloquial American parlance, reference to 1776, the year of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
• The Spirit of '76, patriotic painting by Archibald MacNeal Willard.
• A brand of ConocoPhillips gas stations, 76.
• The number of trombonists leading the parade in "Seventy-Six Trombones," from Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man.
• The 76ers, a professional basketball team based in Philadelphia.
• 76, the debut album of Dutch trance producer and DJ Armin van Buuren.