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unusual facts about Magic number



BitKeeper

BitKeeper uses history files that are based on the idea of the delta tables and interleaved deltas from SCCS but the BitKeeper history files are made intentionally incompatible by using a different magic number (0x01 0x48 instead of 0x01 0x68) at the beginning.


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I Wouldn't Wanna Happen to You

A cover of "3 Is a Magic Number" (written by Bob Dorough as part of ABC's School House Rock, and sampled on De La Soul's hit The Magic Number) was the only B-side to be included on their singles collection "Fireworks".

Periodic systems of small molecules

(a) the BohrSommerfeldsolar systematomic model (with electron spin and the Madelung principle), which provides the magic-number elements that end each row of the table and gives the number of elements in each row,

The Magic Number

"The Magic Number" is a 1990 single by De La Soul, originally recorded in 1988 and first released on their 1989 album, 3 Feet High and Rising, with the chorus based on a segment from the children's show "Schoolhouse Rock!", written by Bob Dorough.