magic number in English

noun
1
a figure regarded as significant or momentous in a particular context.
Wallace figured the magic number was about 40,000 responses.

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1. Cabinet files have .Cab filename extensions and are recognized by their first four bytes (also called their magic number) MSCF.Cabinet files were known originally as Diamond files

2. A bay of alpha-instability lying between the nuclides of neutron magic number 126 and the beta-stability line in the Actinoid group is a characteristic feature in this area.

3. At certain values of N a change in structure of the nucleus occurs, with increase in radius of the core by half a spheron diameter, permitting the cluster to drop back into the mantle, with decrease in R by half a spheron diameter. In the lanthanon region of permanent prolate deformation the rotating cluster is a polyhelion, containing the number of helions permitted by the difference between Z or N and the nearest magic number, and in the actinon region it contains all the nucleons beyond 208Pb, with maximum p10n16.