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:

    “Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “... is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)