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
- 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
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