Memetic Number

The Memetic Number is basically a number that, aside from being an Arc Number, is so ingrained into the audience's mind that they often use it idiomatically on other media (e.g. the Internet), thereby giving it memetic status. Furthermore, it is taken beyond the specific media into general pop culture, much to the point that were it not for helpful archiving from sites like The Other Wiki the original reference would be lost---something an Arc Number would envy.

It also helps if the number is currently associated with a meme.

Compare Arc Number (where the number is disproportionately popular in one area; an Arc Number can be this if it is a prominent part of a meme), Numerological Motif (which is the non-memetic integration of numbers in general into human life).

Examples (in numerical order)

• My Hero Zero
  • Mark it 0!!
  • x/0
• 00
• 0.(9) (Or 0.99999...)
• 1
  • 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...
• 1.21
• Rule of Two
  • 2^n
• 3
  • 5 ("3, sir.")
  • 3
  • 3 To The Power Of 3
  • 3 years ago…
• Pi = 3.1415926535897…
• 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
• 5
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, Go! (Teen Titans!)
  • 5/05
  • 5
• 6
  • You are number 6.
  • 6
  • 8
• 7
  • 007
  • 7
    • 7
  • 7
  • 7
  • 7
  • 7
  • 7 (of 9)
• 7a
  • What number is this, chaps?
  • 8, dude
  • (Endless) Eight.
  • Eight And A Half / Nine
  • 8.8
• 9 (or 8, depending. Or Somewhere around twelve, if you insist on counting the out odd one but still want to be scientifically accurate.)
  • 9
  • 9
  • 9
  • 9
  • 9
  • The strongest of all being ⑨
    • Not effin' kidding
  • 9
  • 9 3/4
  • 9/11 or 11/9 if you're not American.
• 10
  • 10 (plagues)
  • 10
  • 10
  • 10
  • 10
  • 10
  • X
• 11
  • 11
  • 11
  • 11
• 12
  • 12
  • 12
• 13
  • 13
  • 13
  • B13
  • XIII
• 16
  • My Super-Sweet 16 (or 15 if you're Mexican)
• 19
• 20/20
  • 20%
• 22
• 23 FNORD
  • 23
  • Twenty f*cking three!
• 24
• 25
• 27
  • 27
• Rule 34
• Rule 37
  • 37. Not old.
  • Thirty-seven?
    • In a row?!
• 40 - as in "40 days and 40 nights".
• 42
  • 42 (shini-gami)
• 43
• 44
• 47
• 49
• 50
• 51
• 52
  • 52
• 56? FIFTY-SIX?!
• Agent 57
• 60 Minutes
• 61
  • 61
  • 61*
• 64
  • 64
• 69
  • 69, dudes!
  • LOL 69
• 86
• Fourscore and seven years ago...
• 88 MILES PER HOUR!!
  • Unfortunately also important to Those Wacky Nazis.
• 94
• 99
• 101
  • 101
• 104
• 106
• 108
• 114
• 137
• 300
• 311
• 411
• 413
• 420
  • Not to mention...
• 555
• 573
• $599
• 612
• 616 or 666, either or.
  • 616
• 765
• 777
  • 777
• 911
• 1001
• 1025
• 1123
• 1138
• 1337
• 1408
• 1492
• 1602
• 1776
• 12/7/1941
• 1984
• 2000
• 2001
  • 2010
• 2012
  • 2012
• 2814
• 3000
• 4767
• 8,000, 9,000 and 9,001
• 10,000
• 24601
• 71519
• 90125
• 90210
• 525,600 minutes. 525,000 moments so dear...
• 999999 - AEIOU
  • JOHN MADDEN
• 1,000,000 - very memetic for its financial connotations.
  • 1,000,000,000 - after hearing about the billions lost in the financial crisis, millions seem tiny.
    • "1,000,000,000 dollars!"
• 853-5937
• 867-5309 (after an old meme concerning the song 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone)
• 241543903 - And it only gets bigger from here.
• 0118-999-88-199-9119-725-3
• The prefix zetta-
  • That is, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000X.
• A googol is 1 followed by a hundred zeros. Take That, zetta! (Incidentally, gives its name to the famous search engine, Yahoo.)
• Then again, a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.
• Infinity + 1
  • "Jupiter And Beyond The Infinate"
  • "To infinity - and beyond!"

Examples of sets of memetic numbers

• 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42...
  • Adding up to...
• the 1000 blank white cards wiki has a list of common numbers that pop up in 1kbwc a lot, most of which are these also.
• 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...

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• Oh, bad luck, I'm afraid shinty-six is a real number. As in the phrase, "I only have shinty-six days left to live."