About the Numbers

• Part of the Oceanic Flight number (815)
• Part of the safe deposit box number where the toy plane that belonged to the man Kate loved was kept (815).
• When Locke's mother visits him in the toy store where he works, he tells her she can find one of the toys she's looking for in aisle 8.
• Sawyer's age when his father commits murder-suicide
• Shannon's age when her father and Boone's mother were married
• Desmond had 8 months to train for his competition.
• Hurley ate an 8 piece combo while working at the fast food restaurant.
• The Month of Jack's wedding (8/15)
• Ana Lucia's police radio call is 8 Adam 16.
• Season's 3 white rabbit has an 8 marked on its back.
• Hurley explains the accident, which he believes he caused, in which the deck was weight-rated to hold 8 people.
• Part of the date that Kate buried her time capsule with the boy she loved (8/15)
• When Sawyer was waited on by Kate's mother he left a 8% tip (He also paid 108% of his bill!!)
• In the episode "Special" Michael gives Walt a box containing every card and letter Michael sent to Walt over the last 8 years.
• 8 people died when a shoe factory that Hurley owned burnt down.
• When Desmond goes back in time, the package being delivered was supposed to be there at 8:15, also refering to the Oceanic Flight number (although Desmond may not know that) and the next number in the sequence, 15.
• Locke was pushed out of a window on the 8th floor of a hotel by his father.
• The boy Jack pulled from the car that crashed on the bridge was 8 years old.
  

• Part of the Oceanic Flight number (815).
• Part of the safe deposit box number where the toy plane that belonged to the man Kate loved was kept (815).
• When Locke's mother visits him in the toy store where he works, he tells her she can find the other of the toys she's looking for in aisle 15.
• Part of the box number where Locke goes to get his father's money (1516).
• Jae Li's hotel room number, where Jin threatens him (1516).
• The day of Jack's wedding (8/15).
• Part of the date that Kate buried her time capsule with the boy she loved (8/15).
• In the episode Two for the Road, the numbers 15, 16, 23, and 42 can be seen on the top of Ana Lucia's fellow officer's cars.
• "There shall be all one law and judgment both for you and for them who are strangers in the land." Numbers 8:15.
  

• Rousseau's message has been playing for 16 years.
• When Hurley played the lottery it had been 16 weeks since there had been a winner.
  
• The words "MEGA LOTTO JACKPOT" is comprised of 16 letters.
  
• Part of the box number where Locke goes to get his father's money (1516).
• Part of Jae Li's hotel room number, where Jin threatens him (1516).
• Ana Lucia's police radio call is 8 Adam 16.
• When Hurley goes to Australia to speak with Sam's wife about the numbers, we learn that Sam heard the numbers 16 years ago.

• Jack Shephard's seat number on Oceanic 815 was 23A.
• There were 23 survivors from the tail section, originally.
• The reward for Kate was $23,000.
• Hurley's flight took off from gate 23 and he stayed on the 23rd floor in the hotel.
• Hurley explains the accident, which he believed he caused, in which he and 23 other people were on a deck.
  
• In the name of the Episode, "The 23rd Psalm" (which also has a biblical reference).
• 23 days in season 2.
• Carl was held in room 23.
  

• In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide" series, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Since then, use of the number has been a signature geek shout-out. I wouldn't doubt it if the Lost creators are fans.
  
• Ana-Lucia's seat number on Oceanic 815 was 42F.
• Number of spaces in Connect 4, which Hurley was seen playing in the mental institution.
  
• Desmond needed $42,000 to buy a boat.
• Locke is shown playing a crossword puzzle at the hatch. The word his writing in is # 42.
• 42 days in season 1
• the number of naked people seen on the island
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4 8 15 16 23 42

In Windows alt codes.... alt + 4 8 15 16 23 42 = µ <--- Mu (uppercase Μ, lowercase μ is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet, and the symbol is representative of magnetic permeability (a possible connection to the magnetic properties of the hatch and the Island in general). Also, anything followed by 15 16 23 42 equals Mu (µ) in Windows alt codes....

• Mu (also known as Lemuria) is the name of a lost island civilization that existed 78,000 years ago in the Southern Pacific, located somewhere in the Ring of Fire. It lasted many thousands of years, populated by 64 million people, and was eventually sunk by large earthquakes and tsunamis (the catastrophic December 26, 2004 tsunami is in the same place where Mu/Lemuria is thought to have existed). It is theorized that the Mu civilization was well-advanced beyond our current civilization and may well have been populated by aliens, as dicussed at length by James Churchward in his series of five books written in the 1920's and 30's.

• The Numbers could be used as a phone number: (481)-516-2342

• Flight #815
• The copiers Charlie was selling were C-815
• Tom and Kate buried the time capsule on 8/15/1989
• The number on the safe deposit box where the toy plane was kept
• Date of Jack's wedding (08/15)
• Emily Locke tells John she is looking for two toys. He tells her the location of them in the toy store - aisle 8 and aisle 15.
• We see Sayid coming out of an interrogation room with the numbers 815 on the door.
• Adam Rutherford was pronounced dead at 8:15 am

• The numbers added up (4+8+15+16+23+42) equals 108... the number of minutes between entries into the computer. Wikipedia has a great entry on the cultural uses of the number 108.
• In episode 2.14 "One of Them", we see the clock on the hatch wall spin down to zero and then show hieroglyphs in red. There are 5 glyphs and we only see 4. It is speculated that the 5th one is a spiral, so all 5 together can be translated to mean "cause to die" or also "to kill". This according to author Raymond O. Faulkner's book "A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian", as quoted in Nikki Stafford's excellent book "Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide."
• The date and time of the plane crash: 9.22.04 4:16, if you look at the pattern between adding and subtracting you can find the numbers. This is also the date of the first airing of the pilot episode.
• In Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times to finish the old year and welcome the new one. Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations a person must overcome to achieve nirvana.
• The numbers multiplied (4x8x15x16x23x42) equal the number found on the screen in the final episode of season 2 (7418880)
• When Sawyer was waited on by Kate's mother he left a 8% tip (He also paid 108% of his bill!!)
• 108 is the last number on an FM Radio dial.