I am. I find such things fascinating. Feel free to share anything you care to.
As an example, I am sharing some information I found for the number 40:
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40 = 4 = humanity's movement through time to completion, closure.
Forty seems to have many meanings associated with it; especially religious. Many important events in history are linked to 40.
It is the number of probation; trial; initiation; death.
As an elevation of four it is wholeness and totality.
The importance of the "forty days" probably comes from the Babylonian forty days' disappearance of the Pleiades, a period of rains, storms, floods and dangers. The return of the Pleiades was a time of rejoicing and a bundle of forty reeds was burned for the forty days of evil power.
The Roman "quarantine" kept ships isolated for forty days in the harbor.
Temples in Persia, Baalbec, Tartary, those of the Druids and the Temple of Ezekiel, had forty pillars.
Bible: Jesus spent forty days in the desert being tempted by the devil.
There are forty days to Lent, from which were from those forty days in the wilderness.
There are forty of the resurrection, from Easter to Ascension.
The are forty days to privileged sanctuary, and forty days to St. Swithin's weather.
In the Old Testament Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai; Moses' spies spent forty days in Canaan and Caleb, one of them, was forty years old - For forty years the Jews wandered in the wilderness;
Forty days Elijah was in hiding; probation for Nineveh under Jonah;
In the Flood it rained for forty days and Noah's raven was sent out forty days after mountain- tops appeared;
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca and Esau was also forty when he took a wife
It took forty days to embalm Jacob;
The standard legal beating consisted of forty blows;
Othniel, Caleb's brother, was victorious over 'The King of Mesopotamia" and brought peace for forty years, and the later defeat of Sisera again brought a forty-year peace; a little later Gideon subdued the Midianites bringing peace for - forty years
Abdon, one of the early Judges, had forty sons, but these were unable to prevent the Philistines from ruling Western Israel for forty years;
At Succoth Saul's army and the Philistines sat and looked at each other for forty days;
Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel,
David reigned for forty years, and as did Solomon.
Egypt: The forty days of the death and absence of Osiris - resurrection and rebirth - is a period of fasting) through the 'iris' or Eye.
Islamic: The number of change and death, but also of reconciliation and return to the principle. Mohammed received his "call" at forty years; the Quran should be read every forty days.
Mithraic: Forty is the number of days of initiation rites and of festivals and sacrifice.
In mathematics forty is an octagonal number, and as the sum of the first four pentagonal numbers, it is a pentagonal pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 1, 4, 5, 10 and 20) gives 40, hence 40 is a semiperfect number.