188 (number)
# 188 (number)

188 (one hundred [and] eighty-eight) is the natural number following 187 and preceding 189.

## In mathematics

There are 188 different four-element semigroups, and 188 ways a chess queen can move from one corner of a $4\times 4$ board to the opposite corner by a path that always moves closer to its goal. The sides and diagonals of a regular dodecagon form 188 equilateral triangles.

## In other fields

The number 188 figures prominently in the film The Parallel Street (1962) by German experimental film director Ferdinand Khittl [de]. The opening frame of the film is just an image of this number.

