The Number Observatory · Corpus comparison

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A side-by-side view of how these Complete Numbers are represented in the current governed Master Number Vault corpus.

This comparison describes the records currently represented in MNV. It does not establish numerological causation, population prevalence, or statistical significance.

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Governed corpus metrics

Side-by-side observation

Metric18Governed records579556Current corpus share11.6%11.1%ClassificationArchive 1Archive 8Represented collections2121Governed birth years1596–20091475–2010Represented eras44

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 1 compared with Complete Number 8
Collection	Number 1	Number 8
19th-Century Figures	48 records, 8.3% within 1	50 records, 9.0% within 8
20th-Century Figures	459 records, 79.3% within 1	438 records, 78.8% within 8
21st-Century Figures	64 records, 11.1% within 1	59 records, 10.6% within 8
Architecture and Design	15 records, 2.6% within 1	16 records, 2.9% within 8
Artists	21 records, 3.6% within 1	11 records, 2.0% within 8
Aviation and Space	4 records, 0.7% within 1	3 records, 0.5% within 8
Business and Entrepreneurship	28 records, 4.8% within 1	31 records, 5.6% within 8
Culinary Arts	8 records, 1.4% within 1	8 records, 1.4% within 8
Digital Creators and Media	27 records, 4.7% within 1	21 records, 3.8% within 8
Fashion and Design	4 records, 0.7% within 1	6 records, 1.1% within 8
Film and Television	108 records, 18.7% within 1	93 records, 16.7% within 8
Gaming and Esports	5 records, 0.9% within 1	2 records, 0.4% within 8
Journalism and Media	28 records, 4.8% within 1	29 records, 5.2% within 8
Musicians and Composers	102 records, 17.6% within 1	84 records, 15.1% within 8
Philosophers and Thinkers	8 records, 1.4% within 1	9 records, 1.6% within 8
Political Leaders and Government	6 records, 1.0% within 1	9 records, 1.6% within 8
Scientists	51 records, 8.8% within 1	57 records, 10.3% within 8
Social Reformers and Human Rights	1 records, 0.2% within 1	4 records, 0.7% within 8
Sports and Athletics	114 records, 19.7% within 1	116 records, 20.9% within 8
Technology and Computing	37 records, 6.4% within 1	46 records, 8.3% within 8
Writers	76 records, 13.1% within 1	43 records, 7.7% within 8

Represented by both

19th-Century Figures
20th-Century Figures
21st-Century Figures
Architecture and Design
Artists
Aviation and Space
Business and Entrepreneurship
Culinary Arts
Digital Creators and Media
Fashion and Design
Film and Television
Gaming and Esports
Journalism and Media
Musicians and Composers
Philosophers and Thinkers
Political Leaders and Government
Scientists
Social Reformers and Human Rights
Sports and Athletics
Technology and Computing
Writers

Only in 1

None in the current corpus.

Only in 8

None in the current corpus.

Governed birth-date taxonomy

Era distribution

Era: Complete Number 1 compared with Complete Number 8
Era	Number 1	Number 8
18th century	3 records, 0.5% within 1	6 records, 1.1% within 8
19th century	48 records, 8.3% within 1	50 records, 9.0% within 8
20th century	523 records, 90.3% within 1	497 records, 89.4% within 8
Earlier	5 records, 0.9% within 1	3 records, 0.5% within 8

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Complete Number 8

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Distinct governed cohorts

Record sets

Records in 1

Archive 1

Records in 8

Archive 8

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Era distribution

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Record sets

Records in 1

René Descartes

Blaise Pascal

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

Isaac Newton

Brook Taylor

George Washington

Joseph Fourier

Michel Chasles

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Évariste Galois

Hermann Köchly

George Boole

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace

Walt Whitman

Léon Foucault

Susan B. Anthony

Florence Nightingale

Henrietta Dugdale

Friedrich Spielhagen

José Echegaray

John Tebbutt

Carl Spitteler

Oliver Heaviside

Frederick McCubbin

Nikola Tesla

William Sutherland

Rabindranath Tagore

Matthew Henson

Käthe Kollwitz

Maria Montessori

Piet Mondrian

David Unaipon

Otto Loewi

Ernest Shackleton

Alexander Gurwitsch

Bessie Rischbieth

Henri Lebesgue

Thea Proctor

Franz von Papen

Wellington A. Playter

Elizabeth Kenny

Egon Kisch

Nicolas Minorsky

Arthur Dearborn

Gabriela Mistral

Charlie Chaplin

Walther Bothe

George Paget Thomson

Henrik Dam

Buster Keaton

René Mercier

Eugenio Montale

Rafael Rossi

John F. Enders

Ernest Hemingway

Humphrey Bogart

Ernst Neufert

Edgar Aubert de la Rüe

Werner Heisenberg

Theodore W. Schultz

Paul Dirac

Louis Leakey

Yasujiro Ozu

Edmund Veesenmayer

George H. Hitchings

Vladimir Prelog

Grace Hopper

James E. Meade