For Dan Brown fans—

Today's midday New York Lottery number was 438.

See page 438 of Heinlein's The Number of the Beast  (Fawcett paperback, 1980),
on "ultimate total philosophy."

Other philosophy —

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Today's evening New York Lottery number was 772.

See Cheap Diamonds , by Norris Church Mailer, and the symbol
coded (on at least some keyboards) by "Alt 772"—

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Alt 772 = ♦

See also Wallace Stevens's "Crude Foyer" in this journal on June 24, 2008 —
the day Cheap Diamonds  was published in paperback.