4 8 15 16 23 42 - The Numbers

As you all know, in every new episode theres atleast one (sometimes more) number mentioned. This is the list of all the numbers and where they where mentioned during the show.

Something missing? Something new you like to add.. please reply and i'll add it to this list.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

The numbers are inscribed on the mysterious hatch in the jungle.
The latitude 4.815 and longitude 162.342 are located in the Pacific ocean northeast of Australia.
Boone found a map of Africa on the smuggler’s plane. Latitude: 16° 23 Min.42 Sec, Longitude: 4° 8 Min. 15 Sec. will put you in Niger, pretty close to where the map showed.
When Hurley's car is breaking down on his way to the airport, the numbers all show up on the dashboard.
Hurley passed a girls sports team on the scooter in the airport that had all the numbers in order.
Desmond enters the numbers into his computer terminal upon waking up.
The bottles Desmond was using for injection have "CR 4-81516-23 42" written at the top.
Number printed on Jack's Flight Tag.

4

The number of years before the crash on the island (B.I.) that Locke was paralysed.
The number of years B.I. that Sam Toomie committed suicide.
Leonard was playing Connect Four when Hurley visited him.
The number of years B.I. since Sawyer made his birthday wish.
The number of Aces (value 1) that were on Boone’s t-shirt. Also, Boone had another t-shirt with Asian letters that say 84.
The number of refills Shannon had for her inhaler in Boone's luggage.
Number of Oceanic planes on the mobile in Claire’s dream.
Number of months Michelangelo stared at marble “working” in Locke’s story. Boone then asked if they were going to stare at the hatch for 4 months.
Number of spots on Michael’s raft.
Jack's bride Sarah had "44" on her pyjamas
A speed that Hurley’s rental car displayed as it died.
Number of guns in the Marshall's case.
Number of months that passed between Claire's two visits to the psychic.

8

Number of years Michael worked in construction.
Walt was born in August, the 8th month. He was born on the 24th of August. 24 is 8 + 16.
Number of years B.I. since Michael was hit by the car.
The number of years Michael didn't see Walt.
The number of people who died in a fire in Hurley’s shoe factory in Canada.
The number of months Claire was pregnant when the plane crashed.
Boone had a t-shirt with 84 on it in Asian letters.
Number of months Locke was talking to Helen before the crash.
Number of days Charlie went without his guitar before Locke returned it to him.
Number of weeks Driveshaft was going to go on tour.
Shannon’s age when her father married Boone’s mother.
James Ford's (Sawyer) age when his family was destroyed by the original Frank Sawyer.
The aisle for regulation footballs in Locke’s store.
A speed that Hurley's rental car displayed as it died.
The person Hurley bought the scooter from had a Crazy Eight’s hat.
8 O’Clock was the position on the radar where the Others boat showed up.
Number of the TV station that interviewed Hurley after his lottery win.
Number of days Claire was missing after her abduction.
The distance from the Enviornment Secretary's house that Jin was to ditch the assassin's getaway car.
Sarah, Jack's Wife, was supposed to be married 8 months after the car accident which introduced her to Jack.
Scrawled on the wall as a part of the mural in the hatch.

15

The number of members of Rousseau’s research team.
The number of hours Boone spent on his flight to Sydney
The aisle for Nerf footballs in Locke’s store.
A speed that Hurley’s rental car displayed as it died.
Sun was supposed to slip away from Jin at 11:15 A.M. Also, all the digits add up to 8.
14:15 was the scheduled departure time for Oceanic 815.
Sawyer was supposed to meet with an investor for one of his cons at 15:30.
Michael’s estimate of how far out to sea they were when the detected the radar blip.
In backgammon, each side starts with 15 pieces.

16

Number of years Rousseau has been on the island (after hearing the numbers transmission that brought her science team there).
$160,000 was the amount of money Sawyer was planning to con from a family.
Number of circles around the outside of the Oceanic Logo when it is part of Oceanic.
Number of hours the flight to L.A. was going to take.
Number of hours after the crash when the pilot was found.
Number of weeks the lottery hadn’t been won before Hurley won it.
Number of years since Boone’s nanny Teresa fell down the stairs and broke her neck.
Number of years ago that Kate buried the time capsule
A speed that Hurley’s rental car displayed as it died.
Number in hundreds that Hurley paid an old man for his scooter.
Scrawled on the wall as a part of the mural in the hatch.

23

The sum of both parts of the plane’s flight number.
Number of the floor Hurley stayed on at a Sydney hotel.
Number of the gate the plane took off from.
Jack’s seat number on the plane was 23A.
Rose and Bernard were sitting next to Jack in row 23, too.
The reward for turning in Kate was $23,000
The morning of their departure from Sydney, Walt woke Michael up at 5:23 A.M.
The temperature in Hurley’s rental car when it died.

42

Leonard was playing Connect 4. 42 is the number of spaces on a connect four game board.
Rousseau wrote down the number sequence seven times, creating a matrix that totals 42.
Ana-Lucia was sitting in seat 42F.
Room number of Hurley’s room at the Sydney hotel.
The distance Hurley’s rental car had travelled when it died.
10:42 was the scheduled arrival time of flight 815 in L.A.
Scrawled on the wall as a part of the mural in the hatch.
There are 42 of the plane's mid-section survivors left at the end of the first season (not counting Aaron, who was born on the island).
Since winning the lottery, Hurley increased his net worth by 42 million dollars.

108

108 is the sum of the numbers: 4 + 8 + 15 + 16 + 23 + 42.
The number 108 is painted on a wall inside the hatch.
The number of minutes between countdowns in the hatch.

815

The flight number of the plane.
The number of the safety deposit box Kate robbed.
Charlie was trying to sell Copier model 815-C.
The date of Kate’s time capsule is August 15, 1989, 8-15.
The number on the building Sayid walked into in Sydney.
Adam Rutherford was pronounced dead at 8:15 A.M.

The Significance of The Numbers outside of Lost

23 & 42 are two 'random numbers' used by hacker tradition
23 is one of the sacred numbers of Eris, Goddess of Discord
23 is refered to often in Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus Trilogy; it is most often used as an example of a number that pops up in patterns and seems to have meaning, but only because one is looking for it to appear.
42 is the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In Kabbalism, 42 is the number of characters in the unspeakable name of God
There are 108 stitches on a baseball
4, 8, and 16 are all powers of two: 2^2, 2^3, 2^4; the same digits as in 23 & 42.

Someone had a lot of free time this morning...

Obviously, a lot of these are just pure coincidence by the fact that with any number you can have thousands of things added and assimilated to them.
They did the same thing for the Twin Towers, everything was 11.
But still, i am sure a lot of them are made on purpose.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but has anybody else notice the fact that 108 is the number of sins in the Buddhist faith? Also the bunker is run by something called the Dharma Project. Dharma is defined as the principle or law that orders the universe. Pretty wild coincidence if it is one.

Just my 2 cents.

And a worthy 2 cents it is mate.

Thank you Mr. Amsterdam. I am going to print these out for my wife. You will be a hero to her. I will however be watching My favorite Baseball team tonight, the White Sox hopfully win the World Series. Thanks again.

There are 108 stitches on a baseball. There are also 108 keys on a keyboard. And as you know, the keys are black & white, and there is a black rock and a white rock in every episode.

Buddhist insight was great! i would have never known, Thanks!

Not sure if this was mentioned before and I'm sure just a coincidence, but interesting none the less: The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 are all retired numbers by the New York Yankees.
4: Lou Gehrig
8: Yogi Berra
15: Thurman Munson
16: Whitey Ford
23: Don Mattingly
42: Jackie Robinson

Hi fellow Lost fans!! New to this site- didn't see this above- that it takes 108 minutes for a satellite to orbit the Earth.