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Template:Infobox number 252 (two hundred fifty two) is the natural number following 251 and preceding 253.

252 is the central binomial coefficient $(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{10}{5})$, and is $\tau (3)$, where $\tau$ is the Ramanujan tau function. 252 is also ${\sigma }_3(6)$, where ${\sigma }_3$ is the function that sums the cubes of the divisors of its argument::

$1^3+2^3+3^3+6^3=(1^3+2^3)(1^3+3^3)=252.$

It is a practical number, and a hexagonal pyramidal number. There are 252 points on the surface of a cuboctahedron of radius five in the fcc lattice, 252 ways of writing the number 4 as a sum of six squares of integers, 252 ways of choosing four squares from a 4×4 chessboard up to reflections and rotations, and 252 ways of placing four pieces on a Connect Four board.

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