Magic number may refer to:
- Magic number (chemistry), number of atoms or molecules forming an exceptionally stable cluster
- Magic number (sports), a number that indicates how close a team is to winning a season title
- Magic number (oil), the price per barrel of oil at which an oil exporting nation runs a deficit
- Magic number (physics), the number of nucleons that results in complete atomic-nuclear shells
- Magic number (programming), originally the UNIX way of recognizing file types
- Magic Numbers (TV series)
- Magic Number (game), a pricing game on The Price is Right
- "Magic Number" (Maaya Sakamoto song)
- "The Magic Number", a 1990 song by De La Soul from 3 Feet High and Rising
- The Magic Numbers, a British rock band
Famous quotes containing the words magic and/or number:
“We’re not blind and we’re not fools. We’re just plain, sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.... There’s no magic in dried lizards and dead chickens.”
—Eric Taylor. Robert Siodmak. Frank Stanley (Robert Paige)
“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)