:p:u:z:z:l:e:b:o:x: wiki: Numbers

 All our feelings and thoughts
 Expressed in ones and in oughts.
 In endless spiraling chains
 You can't decode or explain,
 Cause you are so analog.
 God dog I eye I god dog.

 In the regime of a solid state
 Wheels spin when you iterate.
 k is x squared minus one
 But .54321
 When x is taken times two
 That's when we're coming for you.

 - Steven Trask & Cheater, "Random Number Generation" 
   (Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack)

This page is intended to be an eccentric dictionary of numeric references and allusions. Feel free to stick in numbers of 100 and higher that also have some cultural significance. The suggested format is just a word or two to suggest in which context the number is important. A Google search on the keyword and the number should be significant. For example, it's probably enough to put "666: The Bible" or "666: The Devil" and let people figure out the rest on their own.

Many of the initial entries were taken from [this site] and may be questionable. Please consider making questionable or speculative entries with a question mark. Please also refrain from trivial, silly, or dull "references" like area codes.

0: Nothing; the Void; world-egg, before-time.
1: power; The One; the original meaning of the swastika, hydrogen; the lonliest; Transcanada Highway
φ: golden mean
2: balance, opposition; duality; the Tao.
e: natural logarithm base (Euler)
3: points to define a plane, three-body problem; the Holy Trinity; any god/dess trinity; the three fates: past, present, future; three strokes intersect; axes of movement.
π
4: compass points; seasons; bad luck in China and Japan, due to being a homonym for "death"; simplest Pythagorean solid; Aristotealean elements; a nibble.
5: starfish structure; elements; the five Taoist elements; the "fifth element" of Quintessence; Akasha; the five vital breaths of Tattwas; refer to pentacles, their place in nature, and the Microcosmic Man; the five divisions of the world (north, south, east, west, center); the Holiest of Holies; the Pentauch
6
7: the number given to sages; the seven chakras; the seven colors of the rainbow; the seven paths of the Sufi; the seven planets of the Greek system; John Dee's heptarch; favored time signature of Turks, gypsies and Laika; the points of three intersecting strokes; points on the Faerie Star; [tru7h]; Cascade
8: the eight Trigrams; the bits in one byte; Gardnerian Witchcraft's eight-spoked wheel of the year; The Eightfold Model of Consciousness; The Eight Basic Winner/Loser Scripts
9: pride before the fall; revolution; Taoist psychic channels; disks.
10: spheres of the sephiroth "world tree"; SI base.
11: Uri Geller; Spinal Tap; the non-existent path of the Sephiroth; Uqbar.
12: zodiac, timekeeping, Israel, jury, Western chromatic scale, (too many to list)
13: good/bad luck (occidental); bar mitzvah; US colonies; cicada broods.
14: Osiris, JS Bach; acupuncture meridians; UHF
15: Numbers Band
16: Ancient Egyptian for coitus = "1616"(?); European geomancy; bits in a word; 2⁴=4²; Minimum purchasing age
17: Tantrism, Robert Anton Wilson, [MIT], Swedish obscenity, haiku, Dostoevsky, ICP, [Yellow Pig Day], [see here]; cicada broods; final Apollo mission
18: legal age; Moby
19: Stephen King
20: icosahedron; letters of the Druidic tree alphabet
21: legal age; blackjack; letters of the Enochian alphabet
22: paths of the sephiroth; major arcana of the Tarot
23: Robert Anton Wilson, skidoo; pairs of human chromosomes
24: hours; Futhark runes; Greek letters
25
26: English alphabet
27: "moleed"
28: lunar cycle
29: leap year
30: journalism "end"; aethyrs of the Enochian cycle; dice
31: flavors
32: bits in a double word, footsteps, TMBG
33: Freemasons, Smashing Pumpkins, human vertebrae, RPM, "say cheese" in Spanish(?), age of Christ
34
35
36: Decans of the Zodiac
37: Kevin Smith, "moleed", age at which OR's father died, Celsius body temp
38
39: steps
40: thieves
41: JS Bach
42: Douglas Adams; letters in the name of God (Yoga)
43
44: robbers
45: RPM
46
47
48
49: miners, Pynchon
50: gold; hertz
51
52: cards; weeks
53
54
55: speed limit
56: modem
57: Heinz,
58
59
60: time-keeping, Numbers Band, Babylonians, hertz
61
62
63
64: hexagrams in the I Ching; the first number which is both a square (8²) and a cube (4³)
65
66: American highway,
67: Summer of Love
68
69: sex, Bill and Ted
70: smallest "weird" number, Boards of Canada
71
72: Seventy-two fold name of God [Exodus 14:19-21]
73
74
75: Numbers Band
76: trombones
77
78: shellac RPM
79
80: fourscore/quatre-vingt
81: Tai Husan Ching
82
83
84
85: Bus that goes by OR and XOR's habitat pod
86: soda jerks, Get Smart
87
88: fascism, Back to the Future, lucky in Chinese
89
90
91: Enochian Watchtowers
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99: Nena, Get Smart, cops, mechanic
101: Orwell, college
111: Lord Nelson, cricket
138: hermaphrodite 69
143: "I love you"
149: monolith
150: three times fifty, Gaelic for "zillions"
173: Amanita
180: about turn
222: Television
242: dance music, UN Security Council Resolution
256: binary
333: Zoe
360: full circle
365: earth-sun (approx.)
366: "a year and a day", Coligny calendar days
404: not found
411: information
420: cannabis
451: temperature at which paper burns
452: Thomas Dolby; Haruki
506: station janitor
520: Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland
666: the Devil
667: The Six Day War
700: onyx steps
747: aerospace
801: The True Wheel; Manzanera et al; alpha and omega
808: dance music (also 909, 303)
911: emergency number
1000: Chinese/Japanese for "zillions"
1885: The last spike
1917: Bolshevik Revolution
1933: E-Prime
1961: Greys Established
1984: Orwell, Reagan, Newspeak
1987: Harmonic Convergence
2012: Mayans, Viridian
2038: Y2K for many UNIX systems (2^31 seconds from 1970-01-01);
2112: Rush
2600: phreaking
23,000: exact number of prime numbers less than 2^18
142,857: anagrams
144,000: years in a Wheel; polar star cycle
21,963,283,741: the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical
The number of God:

: 94143243431512659321054872390486828512913474876027
: 67195923460238582958304725016523252592969257276553
: 64363462727184012012643147546329450127847264841075
: 62234789626728592858295347502772262646456217613984
: 829519475412398501

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