Magic number

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Magic number may refer to:

• Magic number (chemistry), number of atoms or molecules forming an exceptionally stable cluster
• Magic number (sports), a number that indicates how close a team is to winning a season title
• Magic number (oil), the price per barrel of oil at which an oil exporting nation runs a deficit
• Magic number (physics), number of nucleons that results in complete atomic-nuclear shells
• Magic number (programming), a term with several meanings in programming, file formats and protocols

Magic number or similar may also refer to:

• Magic #, a pricing game on The Price is Right
• Magic constant, the sum in a magic square
• "The Magic Number", a 1990 single by De La Soul from the album 3 Feet High and Rising
• The Magic Numbers, a British rock band
• "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two", a 1956 paper by the cognitive psychologist George Miller
• "Three Is a Magic Number", a song by Bob Dorough from the Schoolhouse Rock! educational film series