Magic number
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The term magic number can refer to:
- Magic number (sports), a number used to indicate how close a front-running team is to clinching a season title.
- A Magic number, or file signature, may be stored inside a file in order to help programs identify it.
- Magic number (programming), a special constant in computer programming used for some specific purpose.
- Magic number (physics), a number of nucleons such that they are arranged into complete shells within the atomic nucleus.
- Magic #, a pricing game on the American television game show "The Price is Right".
- The Magic Numbers, a band based in the United Kingdom.
- The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, a short-term memory theory in cognitive psychology that involves chunking.
- Three Is A Magic Number, a song from Schoolhouse Rock!
- The Magic Number, a hit single by rap group De La Soul that samples it.
See also:
ja:マジックナンバー
