Please recall the part after Blondie and Angel Eyes leave the prison camp. They're camped for the night and Blondie wakes suddenly, shooting someone in the bushes. He has Angel Eyes call his associates out of hiding. Blondie then counts off his adversaries -- slowly listing the numbers from one to six. He then notes that six is a perfect number. In the context of the story, he is referring to the fact that his gun holds six bullets.
But I have to wonder, since "perfect number" has a very specific meaning within the world of mathematics, and six is, in fact, a perfect number. Were there people involved with the making of this film who knew that bit of mathematics and threw it in as a little joke? Or is it a total coincidence?
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