Significant Numbers

Besides sacred Tetractys, these numbers are considered very important in Nature:

The Number 33

• A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually
• 33 is, according to the Newton scale, the temperature at which water boils
• The atomic number of arsenic
• The divine name Elohim appears 33 times in the story of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis
• Jesus’s age when he was crucified in 33 A.D.
• Jesus performed 33 recorded miracles
• 33 is not only a numerical representation of “the Star of David,” but also the numerical equivalent of AMEN: 1+13+5+14=33
• the highest degree in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

The Number 81

• The 81 stable Chemical Elements in Nature
• Prime Factors of 81=3x3x3x3.
• 81 is a Square Number 81=9×9
• 81 “generates” all digits of the decimal system: 
  (10/81)= 0.12345679 012345679 012345679012346 (recrring infinitely)
• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -322 May 12 and ended on 958 June. The duration of Saros series 81 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses. Further, the number of lunar eclipse series which began on -20 February 19 and ended on 1296 April. The duration of Saros series 81 was 1316.2 years, and it contained 74 lunar eclipses.

Plato’s Number

Plato’s number is a number enigmatically referred to by Plato in his dialogue the Republic. There is no real agreement neither about the meaning nor about the value of the number. It has been called also the ‘Geometrical number’ or the ‘Nuptial number’ (the Number of the Bride’’),and designated by various other means. Comments on this passage have appeared ever since it has been written. Without any consensus in the argumentation 216 is a most frequently proposed value for it, but 3600 or 12960000 are also commonly considered.

Most interpretators argue that the value of Plato’s number is 216 because it is the cube of 6 i.e. 6^3=216 which is remarkable for being also a sum of the cubes for the Pythagorean triple 3,4,and 5

216 = 6³=3³+4³+5³