Number Theory

I was looking at Hurley's numbers, when i started to put things together. The numbers are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. Here is what i figgured out....

- 4... there were 4 people who left on the raft, 4 guns in the marshels suit case and when the alarm sounds in the hatch, they have 4 minutes to enter the code.

-8, 15...Put the 8 and the 15 together to make 815, the flight # of th plane that everyone was on

-16...The french woman's distress call had been playing for 16 years

- 23...On the preview for this weeks episode of Lost, we hear micheal say "I thought you said there were 23" maybe there were 23 survivors of the tail section, im still not sure.

-42...We do know that there are 42 survivors living on the beach and in the caves.

-If you add all of the numbers together, u get 108, the number of minutes that the timer resets to when they enter the code in the hatch.

So those are my theories, sorry for any mis spelling. What do you think?

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- 23...On the preview for this weeks episode of Lost, we hear micheal say "I thought you said there were 23" maybe there were 23 survivors of the tail section, im still not sure.

I think what he means is that there are 23 others?

Anyhow.. these numbers keep comming back.. i just reviewed all the season 1 episodes and there are LOADS of connections to these numbers in there.

Guess those numbers are triggering something.

it's plain as day..when Walt is spotted on the island he says something but no one could understand what he said...if played backwards he says "don't push the button" this is how season # 2 will end...right at 0:01

Oh jeze, all this thought hurts my head actually.

I need to buy season one and research there then too I suppose.

i've been thinking about the number theory too, and have 2 more insights... Sawyer was 8 years old when his dad shot himself. and... the reward money offered for Kate in Oz was $23,000.00.

-james-

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.

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.

Holy crap! How did you come up with all that?
I like the show so much more now that I found a few Lost Websites

HOLY CRAP! That's so much.

Did some searching and found all this info.
I also watched Season 1 twice.. so i knew some of it like the gate nr etc.

Might be a good idea to make it a seperate topic and add new things whenever youve seen any in an episode?

And I would like to say (doing my best impression of Austin Powers) "But what does it all mean Basil?"

Good work. It's people like you that make it easy for people like me.