Could you name some numbers that have a special meaning in English, like 666? [closed]

Some that come to mind:

  • 69 -- a position...
  • 31337 or 1337 -- "eleet" way of spelling "eleet"
  • 42 -- answer to everything

  • 7 is also generally considered lucky in the West.
  • 13 is regarded by many as unlucky, but by others as lucky (the latter tend to be antinomian sorts). The British royal family is infamously triskaidekaphobic.
  • 20 means location to those familiar with the sort of radio code where one would say "what's your 20?"
  • 23 has some sub-cultural currency as a number associated with strange coincidences, among other things.
  • 93 means "love" and "will" to occultists who follow traditions derived from Aleister Crowley's work.
  • 101 means "introductory" or "basic", from the American college course code.
  • 404 means "missing", "not found" or "unavailable", from the HTTP status code.
  • 411 means "information", from a common dialing code for telephone company information services.
  • 420 refers to cannabis use.
  • 5150, a California police shorthand for a mentally disturbed person, was made famous by the Van Halen album of the same name.

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I think that the number of numbers with a non-numeric meaning to all anglophones is rather limited, since they are very cultural in nature. The answer that you link to indicates for instance that Biblically based meanings (such as 3, 7, 12, 13 or 666) aren't as universal as I'd assumed, for instance.