"The Magic Number" is a 1990 single by De La Soul, originally recorded in 1988 and first released on their 1989 album, 3 Feet High and Rising, with the chorus based on a segment from the children's show "Schoolhouse Rock!", written by Bob Dorough.
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A cover of "3 Is a Magic Number" (written by Bob Dorough as part of ABC's School House Rock, and sampled on De La Soul's hit The Magic Number) was the only B-side to be included on their singles collection "Fireworks".
(a) the Bohr–Sommerfeld “solar system” atomic model (with electron spin and the Madelung principle), which provides the magic-number elements that end each row of the table and gives the number of elements in each row,