24601 (number)

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24601 is the prison code of the character Jean Valjean in the novel/musical Les Misérables. In homage, or perhaps as a recurring in-joke in the performing arts, the number has frequently been used in other works of fiction. The number often identifies one who is persecuted:

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  • System Shock: The hacker's designated Trioptimum employee number is 2-4601.
  • The Black Canyon School (a juvenile detention facility for girls) in Phoenix, Arizona is located at 24601 North 29th Avenue. There is nothing else abutting that remote mile of frontage road, so the state could have chosen any address number within range for it; that they would choose to locate a "prison" at 24601 demonstrates some literary humor on the part of somebody with the Arizona Department of Corrections. There is no indication that the girls living at the school receive any reward for discovering the significance of that number through independent study, though they certainly could; the Black Canyon School and the nearby Adobe Mountain School for Boys do provide library amenities to inmates.
  • In the comicbook GrimJack issue #73, the main character's prison number is 24601.
  • The prime factorization of 24601 is 73 and 337.
  • 24601 is the zip code for Amonate, Virginia.

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It's rumored that the number actually refers to the date Victor Hugo (the author of Les Misérables) was conceived, the 24th of June 1801. This is possible, as he was born nearly 8 months later and is known to having been born about a month too early.

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