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:

    “But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
    Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
    And travelling often in the cut he makes,
    Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
    And all their botany is Latin names.
    The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... in every State there are more women who can read and write than the whole number of illiterate male voters; more white women who can read and write than all Negro voters; more American women who can read and write than all foreign voters.”
    —National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)