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8 22

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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Metric822Governed records556103Current corpus share11.1%2.1%ClassificationArchive 8Vault 22Represented collections2117Governed birth years1475–20101452–2005Represented eras43

Governed collection memberships

Collection distribution

Collection: Complete Number 8 compared with Complete Number 22
Collection	Number 8	Number 22
19th-Century Figures	50 records, 9.0% within 8	11 records, 10.7% within 22
20th-Century Figures	438 records, 78.8% within 8	80 records, 77.7% within 22
21st-Century Figures	59 records, 10.6% within 8	10 records, 9.7% within 22
Architecture and Design	16 records, 2.9% within 8	2 records, 1.9% within 22
Artists	11 records, 2.0% within 8	3 records, 2.9% within 22
Aviation and Space	3 records, 0.5% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Business and Entrepreneurship	31 records, 5.6% within 8	8 records, 7.8% within 22
Culinary Arts	8 records, 1.4% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Digital Creators and Media	21 records, 3.8% within 8	3 records, 2.9% within 22
Fashion and Design	6 records, 1.1% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Film and Television	93 records, 16.7% within 8	14 records, 13.6% within 22
Gaming and Esports	2 records, 0.4% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 22
Journalism and Media	29 records, 5.2% within 8	7 records, 6.8% within 22
Musicians and Composers	84 records, 15.1% within 8	6 records, 5.8% within 22
Philosophers and Thinkers	9 records, 1.6% within 8	2 records, 1.9% within 22
Political Leaders and Government	9 records, 1.6% within 8	4 records, 3.9% within 22
Scientists	57 records, 10.3% within 8	22 records, 21.4% within 22
Social Reformers and Human Rights	4 records, 0.7% within 8	4 records, 3.9% within 22
Sports and Athletics	116 records, 20.9% within 8	10 records, 9.7% within 22
Technology and Computing	46 records, 8.3% within 8	7 records, 6.8% within 22
Writers	43 records, 7.7% within 8	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 8

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 8 compared with Complete Number 22
Era	Number 8	Number 22
18th century	6 records, 1.1% within 8	0 records, 0.0% within 22
19th century	50 records, 9.0% within 8	11 records, 10.7% within 22
20th century	497 records, 89.4% within 8	90 records, 87.4% within 22
Earlier	3 records, 0.5% within 8	2 records, 1.9% within 22

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Complete Number 8

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Complete Number 22

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Record sets

Records in 8

Archive 8

Records in 22

Master Vault 22

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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