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4 22

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

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Metric422Governed records471103Current corpus share9.4%2.1%ClassificationArchive 4Vault 22Represented collections2117Governed birth years1657–20101452–2005Represented eras43

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 4 compared with Complete Number 22
Collection	Number 4	Number 22
19th-Century Figures	36 records, 7.6% within 4	11 records, 10.7% within 22
20th-Century Figures	382 records, 81.1% within 4	80 records, 77.7% within 22
21st-Century Figures	51 records, 10.8% within 4	10 records, 9.7% within 22
Architecture and Design	11 records, 2.3% within 4	2 records, 1.9% within 22
Artists	17 records, 3.6% within 4	3 records, 2.9% within 22
Aviation and Space	5 records, 1.1% within 4	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Business and Entrepreneurship	35 records, 7.4% within 4	8 records, 7.8% within 22
Culinary Arts	4 records, 0.8% within 4	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Digital Creators and Media	23 records, 4.9% within 4	3 records, 2.9% within 22
Fashion and Design	10 records, 2.1% within 4	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Film and Television	95 records, 20.2% within 4	14 records, 13.6% within 22
Gaming and Esports	4 records, 0.8% within 4	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Journalism and Media	25 records, 5.3% within 4	7 records, 6.8% within 22
Musicians and Composers	69 records, 14.6% within 4	6 records, 5.8% within 22
Philosophers and Thinkers	7 records, 1.5% within 4	2 records, 1.9% within 22
Political Leaders and Government	9 records, 1.9% within 4	4 records, 3.9% within 22
Scientists	30 records, 6.4% within 4	22 records, 21.4% within 22
Social Reformers and Human Rights	3 records, 0.6% within 4	4 records, 3.9% within 22
Sports and Athletics	104 records, 22.1% within 4	10 records, 9.7% within 22
Technology and Computing	42 records, 8.9% within 4	7 records, 6.8% within 22
Writers	38 records, 8.1% within 4	3 records, 2.9% within 22

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19th-Century Figures
20th-Century Figures
21st-Century Figures
Architecture and Design
Artists
Business and Entrepreneurship
Digital Creators and Media
Film and Television
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 4

Aviation and Space
Culinary Arts
Fashion and Design
Gaming and Esports

Only in 22

None in the current corpus.

Governed birth-date taxonomy

Era distribution

Era: Complete Number 4 compared with Complete Number 22
Era	Number 4	Number 22
18th century	1 records, 0.2% within 4	0 records, 0.0% within 22
19th century	36 records, 7.6% within 4	11 records, 10.7% within 22
20th century	433 records, 91.9% within 4	90 records, 87.4% within 22
Earlier	1 records, 0.2% within 4	2 records, 1.9% within 22

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Complete Number 4

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Complete Number 22

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Distinct governed cohorts

Record sets

Records in 4

Archive 4

Records in 22

Master Vault 22

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Collection distribution

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Only in 4

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Era distribution

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Complete Number 4

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Record sets

Records in 4

Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy

Michael Faraday

George Gabriel Stokes

Sully Prudhomme

Bertha von Suttner

Henry Deane

Ignacio Cervantes

Sigmund Freud

Alfred Deakin

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Max Planck

Thomas Ranken Lyle

Nellie Melba

Ida B. Wells

Hugh Victor McKay

Walter Frederick Gale

Marie Curie

C.T.R. Wilson

Mary Booth

Henri Matisse

Kitaro Nishida

Guglielmo Marconi

Mary Teresa Norton

Julie Manet

André Deed

Joseph Lyons

Miles Franklin

John Maynard Keynes

Archibald V. Hill

Rose Wilder Lane

George Pólya

Srinivasa Ramanujan

John H. Northrop

John Howard Northrop

Hudson Fysh

William Francis Giauque

Michael Schmaus

Friedrich von Hayek

Enrico Fermi

Luis F. Leloir

Rachel Carson

Kwame Nkrumah

William Golding

Tenzing Norgay

Julio Cortázar

Gwendolyn Brooks

Ingmar Bergman

Nat King Cole

Merce Cunningham

Charlie Parker

Gene Roddenberry

David Attenborough

Martin L. Perl

Paul Taylor

V. S. Naipaul

Edmund S. Phelps

Elinor Ostrom

Chris Bonington

James A. Mirrlees

Martti Ahtisaari

David Baltimore

Barbara Dittus

Kary B. Mullis

Alexey Ekimov

Mary-Claire King

Anne Wiazemsky

Octavia E. Butler

Stephen Schwartz