Magic Number

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 think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
    —Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)

    “Among a hundred windows shining
    dully in the vast side
    of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
    one burns
    these several years, each night
    as if the room within were aflame.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)