4 8 15 816 23 42 -"Lost" numbers sharpen those pencils

[underpants]

Okay so these numbers bring fortune AND miserable luck to everyone who uses them.

If you don't watch the show we found out "Hurley"s back story last night. He used these numbers to win the lottery and he ended up in Australia trying to track down another guy who used them to guess the number of beans in a jar winning lots of money but having tragic events happen all around him as did Hurley. We find out that the "French woman" who was already on the island ended up there because the ship she was on picked up a message from the island that included these numbers so they went to investigate, hit rocks, and sunk (she is the only survivor that we know about).

In the last 30 seconds of the show "Locke" pulled back the undergrowth on what appears to be a spaceship or some sort of aircraft to reveal the numbers on the side.

So my wife and I (both accountants) set out to try to figure it out.

4 8 15 16 23 42

mulitplied out they = 7,418,880
added together they = 87
but it has to be something other than just equation

Alpha numeric?

Corresponding to the English alphabet it spells out
DHOPY and then the 42 (26+16) is P

:shrug:

Individually corresponding they spell out
DHAEAFBCDB

:shrug:

The correspondig US Presidents are
Madison
Van Buren
Buchanan
Lincoln
Benjamin Harrison
Clinton

US states as they entered the union
Georgia
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Maine
Washington

:shrug:


On the face of a clock ( I can't really draw this on this thread)

:shrug:

Any ideas?