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:

    “The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera—and himself.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    “After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.”
    —Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)