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The Number 178
178 is composite: factorization 2 × 89. That gives 178 exactly 4 divisors: 1, 2, 89, 178. 178's proper divisors total just 92, 86 short of 178, the deficient case most of 178's neighbors share too. 178 has a digit sum of 16; for 178, the digital root works out to 7. 178: 2 all divide 178 evenly, out of 2-12. 178 is 10110010 in binary and B2 in hex; as a Roman numeral it's CLXXVIII.