225 is the smallest number that is a polygonal number in five different ways.It is a square number (225 = 152), an octagonal number,[3] and a squared triangular number (225 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5)2 = 13 + 23 + 33 + 43 + 53) . As the square of a double factorial, 225 = 5!!2 counts the number of permutations of six items in which all cycles have even length, or the number of permutations in which all cycles have odd length. And as one of the Stirling numbers of the first kind, it counts the number of permutations of six items with exactly three cycles.