luminos Posted December 1, 2010 Report Share Posted December 1, 2010 spoilers, but only in the minorest sense of the chapter titles being revealed, and their relevance discussed. So, all the chapter titles in this book are a bit weird. Some of them have an easter egg quality, in that they refer to something, or have hidden significance that you might not see at first glance. If you can figure out why a specific thing was chosen for a chapter title, please put it in this thread Chapter titles, with any significance I was able to identify 1: Chapter 2 - because Alcatraz was too stoopid to include chapter 1, which is a shame because it has all the stuff that would make the book non-confusing 2: Chapter 6 - it's a relief he skipped all the boring stuff from chapters 3, 4, and 5 3: Chapter pi 4: Chapter 4 1/2 5: Chapter 42 - The ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6: Chapter 144 7: Act V, Scene III 8: Chapter A+ 9: Chapter No! 10: Chapter 1010 - 1010 is 10 in binary, which matches up with the fact that it is the 10th chapter 11: Chapter 24601 - Main character's prison number from Les Miserables 12: Chapter 070706 - Probably a date (July 7th, 2006) but I don't know why 13: Chapter 6.02214179 x 10^23 - Avogadro's number, a constant having to do with measuring the number of atoms or molecules in a substance 14: Chapter Four Teens and a Pickle 15: Chapter 8675309 - The phone number in the popular song "Jenny". Lord have mercy on anyone with this phone number in real life 16: Chapter 16 - Umm, this actually looks like the regular chapter number. Am I missing some kind of trick here? 17: Chapter NCC-1701 - Or, more completely, USS Enterprise NCC-1701, the name of the ship in the original Star Trek series 18: Chapter 4815162342 - 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 is the sequence of numbers that appeared in the television show Lost. People trapped on an island thought they had to type these numbers into a computer every so often or the world would end. 19: Chapter ??? 20: Chapter infinity 21: Chapter infinity + 1 - for those of you not in the know, this number is the same as infinity. You can't get any bigger than infinity 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luminos Posted December 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 extra information through looking stuff up on wikipedia! The last scene in Hamlet is Act V Scene II, so that is probably why the chapter where everyone quotes it is numbered as the next scene Chapter 070706 is the date Brandon got married. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivertongue Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 15: Chapter 8675309 - The phone number in the popular song "Jenny". Lord have mercy on anyone with this phone number in real life Actually, the title of the song is "867-5309/Jenny". And a lot area codes don't allow anyone to have that number anymore, due to a fad when the song came out of people calling that number and asking for Jenny. I guess now the number is in-use again, and you can buy it on eBay for various area codes, so anyone who has that number knows what they're getting into when they take it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted December 27, 2010 Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Um, the reference in chapter 16 should be obvious... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Von Kelsier Harvey Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 D'oh! Sneaky, sneaky Adonalsium... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRioter Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 chapter 6: 144 is 12 squared (12X12) also known as a gross. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubix Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Chapter 9: NO! It's a German joke... The word for No in German is Nien (Pronounced Nine) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Chapter 9: NO! It's a German joke... The word for No in German is Nien (Pronounced Nine) I totally did not catch this. That's spectacular. Unsurprisingly, Brandon proves he's much smarter than me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Chapter 9: NO! It's a German joke... The word for No in German is Nien (Pronounced Nine) Wow. Just wow. OK, well done Brandon! I even know German. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybrandt Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 14: Chapter Four Teens and a Pickle Could this be an obscure reference to the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral? 21: Chapter infinity + 1 - for those of you not in the know, this number is the same as infinity. You can't get any bigger than infinity Actually, you can. In mathematics, infinity plus one has meaning for the hyperreal numbers, the number ω+1 (omega plus one) in the ordinal numbers, and surreal numbers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Could this be an obscure reference to the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral? Probably. It has a certain poetry about it, a meter, that resonates with people. Actually, you can. In mathematics, infinity plus one has meaning for the hyperreal numbers, the number ω+1 (omega plus one) in the ordinal numbers, and surreal numbers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number. Yes, infinities are very strange. And if you believe everything Alcatraz says, you aren't paying attention. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybrandt Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Math - it's just librarian lies anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightning Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 That's really weird because just the other day I heard the song "8675309" and thought "Wow, I wonder if anyone actually has that number?" I guess me and young Smedry are on the same wavelength. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Honor Spren Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Wow, yeah okay. The only one I understood was Act V Scene lll, because they were quoting Hamlet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emily Posted July 20, 2017 Report Share Posted July 20, 2017 144 could be to do with Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Bilbo's ages combined at the start of the series added together were one gross. So was the number of guests invited. Anyway that's what comes to mind when 144 is mentioned. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmulatonStromenkiin Posted February 2, 2022 Report Share Posted February 2, 2022 On 12/1/2010 at 5:34 PM, luminos said: Chapter 6.02214179 x 10^23 - Avogadro's number, a constant having to do with measuring the number of atoms or molecules in a substance A Mole! There's a Mole in the book! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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