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

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Metric54Governed records10760Current corpus share10.7%6.0%ClassificationArchive 5Archive 4Represented collections97Governed birth years1706–19771657–1947Represented eras34

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 5 compared with Complete Number 4
Collection	Number 5	Number 4
19th-Century Figures	41 records, 38.3% within 5	36 records, 60.0% within 4
20th-Century Figures	60 records, 56.1% within 5	22 records, 36.7% within 4
Architecture and Design	1 records, 0.9% within 5	0 records, 0.0% within 4
Artists	0 records, 0.0% within 5	2 records, 3.3% within 4
Musicians and Composers	2 records, 1.9% within 5	0 records, 0.0% within 4
Philosophers and Thinkers	2 records, 1.9% within 5	4 records, 6.7% within 4
Political Leaders and Government	2 records, 1.9% within 5	1 records, 1.7% within 4
Scientists	19 records, 17.8% within 5	11 records, 18.3% within 4
Social Reformers and Human Rights	2 records, 1.9% within 5	0 records, 0.0% within 4
Writers	7 records, 6.5% within 5	4 records, 6.7% within 4

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19th-Century Figures
20th-Century Figures
Philosophers and Thinkers
Political Leaders and Government
Scientists
Writers

Only in 5

Architecture and Design
Musicians and Composers
Social Reformers and Human Rights

Only in 4

Artists

Governed birth-date taxonomy

Era distribution

Era: Complete Number 5 compared with Complete Number 4
Era	Number 5	Number 4
18th century	6 records, 5.6% within 5	1 records, 1.7% within 4
19th century	41 records, 38.3% within 5	36 records, 60.0% within 4
20th century	60 records, 56.1% within 5	22 records, 36.7% within 4
Earlier	0 records, 0.0% within 5	1 records, 1.7% within 4

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Complete Number 5

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Complete Number 4

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Distinct governed cohorts

Record sets

Records in 5

Archive 5

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Archive 4

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Collection distribution

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Era distribution

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Complete Number 5

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Record sets

Records in 5

Benjamin Franklin

Gaspard Monge

Simón Bolívar

Jean-Victor Poncelet

Nikolai Lobachevsky

George Green

Julius Plücker

Louis Braille

Charles Darwin

Søren Kierkegaard

Sheridan Le Fanu

Henry Dunant

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

James Clerk Maxwell

George Stephănescu

Edmund Barton

Jeanne Marni

Henry Sutton

J.J. Thomson

Charles Scott Sherrington

José Rizal

David Hilbert

John R. Mott

Pieter Zeeman

Abraham Schrameck

Peter Behrens

Vida Goldstein

Ethel Turner

Bertrand Russell

Roald Amundsen

Constantin Carathéodory

G. H. Hardy

Hermann Hesse

Alexander Fleming

Clinton Davisson

Arthur Eddington

Curt Nimuendajú

Jules Goux

Hans Oster

Georgia O’Keeffe

Zora Cross

Alma Thomas

Eleanor Mary Hinder

Enid Lyons

William Faulkner

Jean Macnamara

Jorge Luis Borges

Frédéric Joliot

Clark Gable

Linus Pauling

Eisaku Satō

Louis Armstrong

John Steinbeck

John Eccles

Giulio Natta

Seán MacBride

Charles Drew

Ernst Chain

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Hideki Yukawa

Fred Zinnemann

Lev Landau

Dorothy Spencer

Virginia Apgar

Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso

Samuel Barber

Tennessee Williams

Hans Beirer