It is a strobogrammatic number that reads the same right-side up and upside-down on a seven-segment calculator display, symbolic in various mystical traditions.
888 is a practical number, meaning that every positive integer up to 888 itself may be represented as a sum of distinct divisors of 888.
In some Christian numerology, the number 888 represents Jesus, or sometimes more specifically Christ the Redeemer.
[24] The numerological representation of Jesus with the number 888, as the sum of the numerical values of the letters of his name, was condemned by the Church father Irenaeus as convoluted and an act which reduced "the Lord of all things" to something alphabetical.
[26] For this reason, addresses and phone numbers containing the digit sequence 888 are considered particularly lucky, and may command a premium because of it.