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8 2

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

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Governed corpus metrics

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Metric82Governed records55660Current corpus share11.1%1.2%ClassificationArchive 8Archive 2Represented collections2115Governed birth years1475–20101616–2009Represented eras43

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 8 compared with Complete Number 2
Collection	Number 8	Number 2
19th-Century Figures	50 records, 9.0% within 8	9 records, 15.0% within 2
20th-Century Figures	438 records, 78.8% within 8	25 records, 41.7% within 2
21st-Century Figures	59 records, 10.6% within 8	25 records, 41.7% within 2
Architecture and Design	16 records, 2.9% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Artists	11 records, 2.0% within 8	2 records, 3.3% within 2
Aviation and Space	3 records, 0.5% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Business and Entrepreneurship	31 records, 5.6% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Culinary Arts	8 records, 1.4% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Digital Creators and Media	21 records, 3.8% within 8	4 records, 6.7% within 2
Fashion and Design	6 records, 1.1% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Film and Television	93 records, 16.7% within 8	6 records, 10.0% within 2
Gaming and Esports	2 records, 0.4% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
Journalism and Media	29 records, 5.2% within 8	1 records, 1.7% within 2
Musicians and Composers	84 records, 15.1% within 8	7 records, 11.7% within 2
Philosophers and Thinkers	9 records, 1.6% within 8	2 records, 3.3% within 2
Political Leaders and Government	9 records, 1.6% within 8	2 records, 3.3% within 2
Scientists	57 records, 10.3% within 8	14 records, 23.3% within 2
Social Reformers and Human Rights	4 records, 0.7% within 8	1 records, 1.7% within 2
Sports and Athletics	116 records, 20.9% within 8	13 records, 21.7% within 2
Technology and Computing	46 records, 8.3% within 8	2 records, 3.3% within 2
Writers	43 records, 7.7% within 8	3 records, 5.0% within 2

Represented by both

19th-Century Figures
20th-Century Figures
21st-Century Figures
Artists
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 8

Architecture and Design
Aviation and Space
Business and Entrepreneurship
Culinary Arts
Fashion and Design
Gaming and Esports

Only in 2

None in the current corpus.

Governed birth-date taxonomy

Era distribution

Era: Complete Number 8 compared with Complete Number 2
Era	Number 8	Number 2
18th century	6 records, 1.1% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 2
19th century	50 records, 9.0% within 8	9 records, 15.0% within 2
20th century	497 records, 89.4% within 8	50 records, 83.3% within 2
Earlier	3 records, 0.5% within 8	1 records, 1.7% within 2

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Complete Number 8

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Complete Number 2

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Distinct governed cohorts

Record sets

Records in 8

Archive 8

Records in 2

Archive 2

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Collection distribution

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Era distribution

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Complete Number 8

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Record sets

Records in 8

Michelangelo

Rembrandt van Rijn

Carlo Mannelli

De Beaunoir

Sophie Germain

Joseph Grimaldi

Siméon Denis Poisson

Jakob Steiner

Mary Shelley

Otto von Gerlach

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

William Rowan Hamilton

Errico Petrella

James Joseph Sylvester

Elizabeth Blackwell

Giuseppe Zanardelli

Alfred Clebsch

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Fredrik Bajer

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Camille Jordan

Sophus Lie

Elihu Root

Alexander Graham Bell

Ferdinand Braun

Paul Ehrlich

Emmeline Pankhurst

Selma Lagerlöf

John Dewey

Lilian Violet Cooper

William Henry Bragg

Max Weber

John Monash

Mary Gilmore

Rudyard Kipling

Gertrude Bell

Georgina Sweet

Mary Grant Bruce

Max von Laue

Pablo Picasso

Percy W. Bridgman

Sigrid Undset

James Franck

Vida Lahey

Edwin Balmer

George L. Cobb

Gustav Hertz

Erwin Schrödinger

Otto Stern

Stefan Banach

Grace Cossington Smith

Edward V. Appleton

Harry Crookshank

Charles Hamilton Houston

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Gunnar Myrdal

Kate Campbell

Yasunari Kawabata

Jean Rudolf von Salis

Alva Myrdal

George Orwell

Hugo Theorell

George D. Snell

John von Neumann

John R. Hicks

Anna Mahler

Isaac Bashevis Singer