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LOST Numbers

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42... This series of numbers has become very familiar. It's a code! For what? Only the Powers That Be know...and they're giggling as we rush around trying to figure it out...
# Where?
4-8-15-16-23-42 Chanted by Lenny (1-18), (2-18)
Used by Hurley for lotto (1-18)
Stamped on mysterious hatch (1-18)
Written by Danielle Rousseau on her maps (1-18)
Kids soccer team in airport (1-24)
On pill bottles in hatch (2-1)
Hatch computer code to reset counter (2-1)
On pill bottles at Other Medical Clinic (2-15)
On the blacklit blastdoor mall map Locke saw while he was pinned under the door (2-17)
4 2 squared
48: the number of original lostaways (1-1)
Number of people to help dig Jack out at the cave-in (1-7)
Years Locke has been in a wheelchair (1-4)
Years Kate has been on the lam (1-3)
Years since Sawyers birthday wish (1-8)
Number of refills of Shannon's asthma medicine (1-8)
Months psychic and Claire talked (1-10)
Number of guns in the marshall's case (1-12)
Miles between camp and Locke's Psychedelic Mindpaste Funzone (1-13)
Number of spots on the raft (1-17)
Years that Hurley's grandfather had a pacemaker (1-18)
Lenny plays Connect-4 in the mental hospital (1-18), (2-18)
Years since Sam Toomey's suicide (1-18), (2-18)
Times Ana Lucia was shot (2-8)
Months Ana Lucia was in talk therapy (2-8)
As square root of 16, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
As 04.08.00, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
8 48: Number of survivors from the midsection (1-1)
8/15: Feast of the Assumption
815: Doomed flight no. (1-1)
815: In the bank robbery, the safe deposit box that is Kate's real target - owned by Marshall Shrapnel (1-12)
815: Model number of the copier Charlie hurls into (1-15)
8/15: date on Kate's time capsule (1-22)
8:15: time of death of record in Jack's ER for Adam Rutherford, Shannon's father (2-1)
815 Walnut Ridge Road, Wayzatta, MN 55391: The real Henry Gale's address (2-17)
8A16: Ana Lucia's squad car number (2-8)
8/23: Walt's birthday (1-8)
2 cubed
Months since "Farmer Hogget's" wife died (1-3)
Months Locke and Helen have had a phone relationship (1-4)
Weeks of Driveshaft tour (1-7)
Charlie's days without guitar (1-7)
Years Michael worked in construction (1-7)
Months along Claire's pregnancy is (1-10)
Years since Kate was first arrested (1-12)
Shannon's age when Boone became her stepbrother (1-13)
Years since Michael's accident (1-14)
Kilometers Mr. Paik's muscle tells Jin to drive (1-17)
Deaths in Hurley-owned Canadian shoe company fire (1-18)
Aisle for footballs in the store where Locke works (1-19)
Crazy 8's Saloon: cap, scooter (1-24)
Pump number at convenience store where Hurley bought his lottery ticket (2-4)
As square root of 64, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
As 04.08.00, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
As 08.15.01, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
In Hurley's accident, the deck that collapsed was built to hold 8 people. (2-18)
15 8/15: Feast of the Assumption
815: Doomed flight no. (1-1)
815: In the bank robbery, the safe deposit box that is Kate's real target - owned by Marshall Shrapnel (1-12)
815: Model number of the copier Charlie hurls into (1-15)
8/15: date on Kate's time capsule (1-22)
8:15: time of death of record in Jack's ER for Adam Rutherford, Shannon's father (2-1)
Kilometers to town from Hogget's (Ray's) farm (1-3)
Number of people on Danielle Rousseau's science team (1-9)
Hours Boone flew to Australia to rescue Shannon (1-13)
Kilometers to civilization from Courage's (Sam Toomey's) farm (1-18)
1516: number on the safe deposit box where Coop, Locke's father, stashed his ill-gotten gains (2-17)
As square root of 15, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
As 08.15.01, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
16 2 to the power of 4
8A16: Ana Lucia's squad car number (2-8)
Age of Jack's first solo surgery patient (1-1)
Years Danielle Rousseau's message has been continuously looping (1-2)
Weeks it has been since a lottery winner (1-18)
Years since Sam Toomey and Lenny (the mental patient) heard the numbers in the Pacific (1-18)
Hours between crash and when Field Trip Team Kate-Jack-Charlie found the cockpit and the pilot (1-1)
Hours to fly from Australila to LAX
$1600: Amount Hurley offerred for the scooter in the airport (1-24)
Appears in hatch mural (2-1)
1516: number on the safe deposit box where Coop, Locke's father, stashed his ill-gotten gains (2-17)
As square root of 16, on the blacklit blastdoor map Locke saw (2-17)
23 8 + 15 = 23
Prime number
Episodes per season
23B: Jack's seat number (1-1, 1-24)
8/23: Walt's birthday (1-8)
$23,000: Reward for Kate's capture (1-3)
5:23 a.m.: When Walt woke Michael on Flight Day (1-24)
Gate number for flight 815 (1-24)
2342: Hurley's hotel room number (1-24)
23 C: Temperature in Sydney on Flight Day (1-24)
Tailaway survivors (2-7)
815 Walnut Ridge Road, Wayzatta, MN 55391: The real Henry Gale's address (sum of the digits of the zip code is 23) (2-17)
In Hurley's accident, the deck that collapsed was built to hold 8 people and was holding 23. (2-18)
42 The answer to life the universe and everything
2342: Hurley's hotel room
Holes in a Connect-4 board (1-18), (2-18)
42F: Seat number of Ana Lucia (1-24)
42 km: Odometer reading in Hurley's rental car (1-24)
42 down: Crossword clue that has Locke stumped: Enkida's friend (answer? Gilgamesh) (2-9)
108 Sum of the Numbers
Number of beads in a mala (Hindu prayer necklace)
Featured in mural in Hatch tunnel (2-1)
Number of minutes in a full Hatch countdown (2-1)