In Other Fields
- The 216 colors formed by a 6×6×6 color cube are sometimes known as the web-safe color palette.
- ISO 216 is the ISO's standard for paper sizes.
- In the film Pi, Max becomes obsessed with a 216-digit number in his quest to find the numeric equation behind existence, and is told by a group of Hasidic Jews that it represents the true name of God.
- As six cubed (6*6*6), 216 is also symbolic of the Mark of the Beast in Christianity. This has been expressed in the Left Behind series.
- According to the Ken Burns series Baseball, it is the number of stitches on a baseball.
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“And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seemed the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)