4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42...

[derekhaltom]

A series of numbers that have taken an unhealthy hold on the minds of everyone in my household. What are these strange numbers for you ask? Ah, that in itself is a bit of a mystery. Shown on some sort of hatchway on the tv show Lost, they are something that has the internet abuzz with theories and ideas. What do the numbers mean? Is there a pattern

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[beckleychick07]

hmm, oh rad brother of mine, i have no clue...i don't watch that show, so i have no clue.

Okay..so do you remember Tommy Toutone?

[palindromicme]

So there was this girl, named Jenny. A dude saw her phone number on the wall. He then went on to one hit wonder status by penning the song "867-5309".

This of course, drove Jenny bonkers. She would get calls at all hours of the night...looking for that proverbial "good time"

So Jenny had to change her number. To what you ask?

481-516-2342

Re: Okay..so do you remember Tommy Toutone?

[derekhaltom]

Ah, well, that would be all fine and dandy if that was true. As it stands, that phone number does not work. (One of the first things I tried.) The numbers are part of a series of numbers in ascending non-prime binary numbers + 1, or somesuch, but that really doesn't do much for us, does it? If, working backwards, you add the two numbers together then skip two, you get the answer, and if you move on to the next one, you get the same result, but that is where it ends, so that didn't work out. If you take the alphabet and apply it to the numbers after being broken up, you don't get anything. So that's out. Now, on the episode there is a problem on the same sheet of paper that the numbers are on, and that is the square root of[ (13/x) + (9/500)squared] and that is in the process of being worked out now. Add the numbers together and you end up with 108. Interesting, but that number has way too much religious significance to be worth anything. Or maybe that is the answer, it doesn't really mean anything. I'm going to abandon this and let my