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This is the number that pops up over and over again in a given work, often in seemingly unrelated contexts. Sometimes the number really is significant; sometimes, it's just an in-joke or [[Stock Shout-Outs]]. That is, it's the numeric equivalent of [[Arc Words]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The number 25 appears all over the place in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' - it's the 25th migration fleet, the Macross-class ship is called the Macross Quarter (=25 percent!), the hero mecha are VF-25, one of the characters is a quarter alien, etc. Whether all this leads up to something actually meaningful is still up in the air. Perhaps not so coincidentally, ''Macross Frontier'' celebrates the 25th anniversary of the franchise.
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* In the [[Dragaera]] books, everything related to the Dragaeran Empire comes in 17, or in powers of 17. All novels in the series have 17 or 34 chapters, a custom that began by accident.
* All significant numbers in the [[Discworld]] gravitate towards <s>7a</s> 8. There's an eighth color in the spectrum, being the eighth son of an eighth son makes you a wizard (and a wizard's eighth son is a [[Discworld/Sourcery|sourcerer]]), Box Five from ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' becomes Box Eight in ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''...
* ''[[Illuminatus]]!'' does this with 5 and 23, and to a slightly lesser extent 17. 5 is mostly associated with [[Illuminati|the Bavarian Illuminati]] and 23 with [[Discordia|the Discordians]] (though there are exceptions in both directions). It specifically adds two extra elements to the Hegelian triad of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis: parenthesis and paralysis.
* ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' does it with 120.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' has 12, 7 (7 books, 7 years at Hogwarts, 7 horcruxes, 7 children in the Weasley family, Harry takes 7 classes from his first to third year...), and 9.75 (Platform 9¾; school year of 9¾ months; Harry spends 9¾ years in the Muggle world).
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** 47 appears an awful lot in ''[[Star Trek]]''. Many joke that it's "42 adjusted for inflation," and many sci-fi shows, notably ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', also see 47 cropping up frequently, most likely in tribute. It's become something of a [[Numerological Motif]] and/or in-joke in the sci-fi community at large. Trek's 47s were started by writer Joe Menosky, a graduate of Pomona College, which is the origin of the "47 Society," a group proclaiming that 47 is the quintessential random number. In the 1960s, a Pomona professor named Donald Bentley produced a "proof" showing that all numbers are equal to 47. Just for fun, one of the main libraries on the campus is named "The Borg" in part as tribute to this connection between the school and the show/movies
** ''[[Star Trek]]'' has a more compressed example in the TNG's "Cause and Effect," featuring a [[Groundhog Day Loop]] in which the ''Enterprise'' is repeatedly destroyed. On the final iteration, the characters keep encountering the number 3, and discover that it's a message from themselves in the previous go-round telling them how to avoid destruction.
* [[J.J. Abrams]] and his writers apparently tried their hardest to get the number 47 to appear in ''every single episode of'' ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]''.
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== Theater ==
* In ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'', the number 24601 (Jean Val Jean's prison number) is repeatedly referenced, mainly in his struggles with Javert.
* In ''[[Rent]]'' the song
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