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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

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Metric54Governed records562471Current corpus share11.2%9.4%ClassificationArchive 5Archive 4Represented collections2121Governed birth years1706–20071657–2010Represented eras34

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 5 compared with Complete Number 4
Collection	Number 5	Number 4
19th-Century Figures	42 records, 7.5% within 5	36 records, 7.6% within 4
20th-Century Figures	466 records, 82.9% within 5	382 records, 81.1% within 4
21st-Century Figures	48 records, 8.5% within 5	51 records, 10.8% within 4
Architecture and Design	8 records, 1.4% within 5	11 records, 2.3% within 4
Artists	16 records, 2.8% within 5	17 records, 3.6% within 4
Aviation and Space	4 records, 0.7% within 5	5 records, 1.1% within 4
Business and Entrepreneurship	40 records, 7.1% within 5	35 records, 7.4% within 4
Culinary Arts	8 records, 1.4% within 5	4 records, 0.8% within 4
Digital Creators and Media	24 records, 4.3% within 5	23 records, 4.9% within 4
Fashion and Design	6 records, 1.1% within 5	10 records, 2.1% within 4
Film and Television	122 records, 21.7% within 5	95 records, 20.2% within 4
Gaming and Esports	3 records, 0.5% within 5	4 records, 0.8% within 4
Journalism and Media	39 records, 6.9% within 5	25 records, 5.3% within 4
Musicians and Composers	72 records, 12.8% within 5	69 records, 14.6% within 4
Philosophers and Thinkers	4 records, 0.7% within 5	7 records, 1.5% within 4
Political Leaders and Government	12 records, 2.1% within 5	9 records, 1.9% within 4
Scientists	35 records, 6.2% within 5	30 records, 6.4% within 4
Social Reformers and Human Rights	4 records, 0.7% within 5	3 records, 0.6% within 4
Sports and Athletics	102 records, 18.1% within 5	104 records, 22.1% within 4
Technology and Computing	41 records, 7.3% within 5	42 records, 8.9% within 4
Writers	55 records, 9.8% within 5	38 records, 8.1% within 4

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 5

None in the current corpus.

Only in 4

None in the current corpus.

Governed birth-date taxonomy

Era distribution

Era: Complete Number 5 compared with Complete Number 4
Era	Number 5	Number 4
18th century	6 records, 1.1% within 5	1 records, 0.2% within 4
19th century	42 records, 7.5% within 5	36 records, 7.6% within 4
20th century	514 records, 91.5% within 5	433 records, 91.9% within 4
Earlier	0 records, 0.0% within 5	1 records, 0.2% within 4

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Complete Number 5

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Complete Number 4

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Record sets

Records in 5

Archive 5

Records in 4

Archive 4

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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

Mikhail Fokine

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

Ace Bailey

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