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The 47 Society

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As detailed on The Other Wiki here, the number 47 has become an in joke among groups of mathematicians and screenwriters, improbable as the crossover may seem.
(it's a prime number, by the way)
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This was amusing when Abrams helmed the 2009 Star Trek movie, as he inserted a 47 reference without knowing about the recurring gag in prior Trek.
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Star Trek had a Pomona graduate and member of the society Joe Menosky write several episodes of TNG and Voyager. The trope caught on with the other writers, to the point that the number 47 has a page on on the Star Trek wiki. Rick Berman once joked that it was "42 adjusted for inflation."
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J.J. Abrams picked this up and uses it in his series, most prominently in Revolution and Fringe. He's also brought it to Star Wars, where it's now being used over 1138.
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