RNGdle

Meme & Named Numbers

Numbers the internet gave a name to.

What is it?

Some numbers are famous: 42 answers the ultimate question, 666 alarms heavy-metal fans, 1337 speaks leet, 9001 is over nine thousand, 80085 is the calculator classic, 314159 is π, 142857 cycles forever. RNGdle treats each named number as one of a kind.

  • Exact matches12
  • Odds1 in 83,333
  • Out of1,000,001

How it scores

A named number is literally unique in the range — a count of one in 1,000,001 — so it earns the maximum per-trait score. Rolling one is the jackpot.

The formula: -log2(count / 1,000,001) bits per trait, capped at 20, summed with 0.5 decay per additional trait.

Highest-scoring meme & named numbers

  1. 1,000,000score 34.5 · Mythic
  2. 666score 31.2 · Mythic
  3. 777score 30.4 · Mythic
  4. 42score 26.4 · Mythic
  5. 420score 26.3 · Mythic
  6. 9,001score 25.4 · Mythic
  7. 1,337score 24.3 · Mythic
  8. 69score 23.8 · Mythic
  9. 314,159score 23.5 · Mythic
  10. 142,857score 23.4 · Mythic

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FAQ

Which numbers count as meme numbers?

The current list: 42, 69, 420, 666, 777, 1337, 9001, 80085, 142857, 314159, 271828, and 1000000.

Why is 142857 special?

Multiply it by 1 through 6 and the same digits rotate: 142857, 285714, 428571… It is the repeating block of 1/7.

Can a named number have other traits?

Absolutely — 314159 is also prime-adjacent trivia and 1000000 is a perfect square, cube, and round number. Traits stack.