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Saturday, August 19, 2023
The Quite Incredible Number List: Index
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The Quite Incredible Number List: 1-100
1: 1 is the only positive integer that is neither prime nor composite. (Sophie.A)
2: 2 is the only number whose factorial is prime. (principessa)
3: 3 is the resin identification code used in recycling to identify polyvinyl chloride. (cherrycoke)
4: Channel 4 was launched on 2 November 1982 with the programme Countdown. (Sophie.A)
5: Five (stylised as 5ive) are a British boy band from London consisting of members Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, and Scott Robinson. The group were mostly known as a five-piece. (TheElephant)
6: 6 is the only number that is equal both to the sum of its positive factors smaller than itself (1 + 2 + 3) and to the product of its positive factors smaller than itself (1 x 2 x 3). (Sophie.A)
7: "Seven Ate Nine" is the name of a sandwich shop in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. (Ed., suggested by cherrycoke)
8: 8 is considered by the Chinese to be a lucky number. (Sophie.A)
9:(bemahan)
1 x 9 + 2 = 11 12 x 9 + 3 = 111 123 x 9 + 4 = 1 111 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11 111 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111 111 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1 111 111 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11 111 111 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111 111 111
10: 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 (Sophie.A)
11:The last two digits of the final number will always be 11. (Vera C)
(1) Think of a whole number, and square it. (2) Multiply together the number before and the number after the resulting square. (3) If the last digit of the new number is 4 or 9, add 3; if the last digit is not 4 or 9, add 2. (4) Multiply by 20 and subtract 29.
12: Think of a number other than 1; multiply by 3; subtract 3; multiply by 4; divide by the number that is 1 less than than the original number you thought of. The final answer is always 12. (Sophie.A)
13: 1/13 = 0.076923076923076923... (rational periodic infinite decimal). 76923 x 13 = 999999, and multiplying the periodic number 76923 by successive multiples of 13 gives the values 1999998, 2999997, 3999996, 4999995, 5999994, 6999993, 7999992, 8999991 and 9999990. (bemahan)
14: The Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff was famous for wearing a number 14 shirt. (Sophie.A)
15: 15 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5. (bemahan)
16: Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775. (Sophie.A)
17: "Seventeen" was the original name of The Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There". (bemahan)
18: Until 2000, only 18 of the moons of Saturn had been given names. (Sophie.A)
19: The Wimbledon tennis championships are held at The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Church Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AE, England. (Vera C)
20: An icosahedron is a solid figure with 20 plane faces. (Sophie.A)
21: 21 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6. (Vera C)
22: An adult human skull has 22 bones (1 occipital, 2 parietal, 1 sphenoid, 1 ethmoid, 2 inferior nasal conchae, 1 frontal, 2 nasal, 2 lacrimal, 2 temporal, 2 maxillae, 2 zygomatic, 1 vomer, 2 palatine, 1 mandible). (Sophie.A)
23: The first 6 digits of pi (3.14159) add up to 23: 3 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 5 + 9 = 23. (principessa)
24: Although 24 hours is the length of a calendar day, a mean solar day is in fact 24.0000006 hours long, and a sidereal day is only 23.9344696 hours long. (Ed., suggested by bobwilson)
25: Initiative 901 in Washington State states that "smoking is prohibited within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of twenty-five feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited so as to ensure that tobacco smoke does not enter the area through entrances, exits, open windows, or other means". (Posital)
26: According to a survey reported in the Daily Telegraph in 2009, 26th October is the most unproductive day of the year. (stee)
27: 27 is the largest number equal to the sum of the digits of its cube: 273 = 19863; 1 + 9 + 8 + 6 + 3 = 27. (Ed.)
28: In the Gregorian calendar, 75.75% of Februarys have just 28 days. (Ed., based on cherrycoke)
29: Eric Wimp, better known as Bananaman in the comic strip, lived at 29 Acacia Road. (stee)
30: There are 30 tracks on the self titled album by The Beatles (AKA The White Album). (stee)
31: Haydn's Symphony No.31, nicknamed "Hornsignal", and Mozart's Symphony No.31, nicknamed "Paris", are both in the key of D major. (Sophie.A)
32: Pure water freezes at 32°F. (Vera C)
33: Oregon became the 33rd state of the USA on February 14, 1859. (stee)
34: One of the fundamental constants in physics, Planck's constant has a value of 6.626 × 10−34 J s. (Sophie.A)
35: 35 is the minimum age for a person to be eligible to be US President. (Vera C)
36: 36 is both the sum of the first 8 positive whole numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8) and the sum of the first 9 digits of pi (3+1+4+1+5+9+2+6+5). (Sophie.A)
37: Jupiter is 37 light seconds away from the Earth. (jdean)
38: There are 38 surviving plays by William Shakespeare. (stee)
39: The 39 Steps (1935) is a film by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by John Buchan. (Sophie.A)
40: WD 40 stands for Water Displacement - 40th Attempt (it was the 40th formula tried by the inventor). (stee)
41: 41 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13, the sum of the first 6 prime numbers. (Sophie.A)
42: According to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, 42 is the meaning of life, the universe and everything. (Bondee)
43: 43 is the atomic number of technetium, the only element lighter than uranium that does not occur naturally on Earth (except as a short-lived by-product of naturally occurring radioactivity). (Vera C)
44: Barack Obama was the 44th President of The United States, not including the 16 Presidents of The United States in Congress Assembled. (Strictly speaking, Obama is the 43rd individual to be President, thanks to Grover Cleveland being both number 22 and 24.) (stee)
45: Gaius Julius Caesar was named dictator for life in 45 BC. (stee)
46: The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC. (Sophie.A)
47: The number 47 has historical implications to Pomona College in Claremont, California, and has been incorporated into various aspects of campus life. Notable 47 sightings include the fact that Pomona is located off of exit 47 of Interstate 10, and that the largest residential building on campus, Mudd-Blaisdell (formally Florence Carrier Blaisdell and Della Mullock Mudd Hall, a title with 47 characters), was completed in 1947 and contains a staircase with 47 balusters. (Ed.)
48: A cube has 48 symmetries (its symmetry group being the direct product of the symmetric group of degree 4 and the cyclic group of order 2). (Sophie.A)
49: The sum of the digits of the square of 49 is the square root of 49 (2 + 4 + 0 + 1 = 7). (Ed.)
50: Hawaii is the 50th state of the USA. (Sophie.A)
51: "Playin' solitaire 'til dawn with a deck of 51/Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo/Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do" are lyrics from Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. (bobwilson)
52: There are 52 white keys on a modern piano. (Ed.)
53: 53 is the atomic number of iodine, the only halogen element that is solid at room temperature. (Or rather the only non-radioactive halogen, thus excluding astatine.) (Q.I. George)
54: 54 is a novel by Wu Ming, first published in Italian in 2002. (stee)
55: 55 is the sum of the squares of the first 5 positive integers. (Sophie.A)
56: Kimberley Vlaminck had 56 stars tattooed on her face, then claimed she didnt ask for that many and had slept whilst they were done. She then admitted that she had asked for all 56 and lied because her father was 'furious'. (stee)
57: Heinz 57 is a shortened, popular form of the '57 Varieties' slogan of Pittsburgh's H.J. Heinz Company. (Vera C)
58: The 58 Chevy failed to build on its predecessor's popular success. (PDR)
59: At the age of 59, Satchel Paige was the oldest ever Major League Baseball player. (zomgmouse)
60: The Babylonians used a base-60 number system. (Vera C)
61: The Man In Seat Sixty-One is an online train and ferry guide. (Big Martin)
62: In March 2010 62% of the eligable population of Iraq turned out to vote, despite threats, and actual acts, of violence. This was higher than the turnout in both the 2001 and 2005 UK elections. (tp)
63: Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days. (Strawberry)
64: When I'm Sixty-Four is a song by the Beatles. (Posital)
65: "At three score and five, I'm very much alive/I've still got the jive to survive with the heroes and villains" are lyrics from Heroes and Villains by the Beach Boys. (Strawberry)
66: Sixty-six is a austrian card game played with a deck of only 24 cards, also known by its German name Sechsundsechzig. (dr bartolo)
67: In the year 67 CE, Saint Peter the Apostle is supposed to have been crucified upside-down at his own request. (sjb)
68: ALGOL-68 is an imperative computer programming language. It is short for Algorithmic 1968. (tp)
69: The Messier object M69 is a magnitude 9.0 globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. (Strawberry)
70: 70 is the atomic number of ytterbium, a lanthanide. (cherrycoke)
71: Indra in the Hindu Pantheon lives for 71 eons. (wilftest)
72: Confucius had 72 disciples. (Strawberry)
73: Haydn's Symphony No.73, nicknamed "La Chasse", and Brahms's Symphony No.2, Op.73, are both in the key of D major. (Albert Terry)
74: In a 2011 study it was found that we are at our happiest when we are 74 years of age. It drops steadily from your teens until you reach 40, then it is in a trough for the next six years. After which it climbs steadily to a peak at 74 before dropping off as physical and mental illness kicks in. (tp)
75: 75 is the département number of the city of Paris. (Strawberry)
76: Steven Callahan spent 76 days in a liferaft, drifting on the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued. (GoldieOGilt)
77: 77 is the largest number that cannot be written as a sum of distinct numbers whose reciprocals sum to 1. ('yorz)
78: There are 78 tarot cards. (Strawberry)
79: Liz Taylor died at the age of 79. ('yorz)
80: 80 is the upper age limit for cardinals to vote in papal elections. (Strawberry)
81: 1/81 = 0.012345679012345679... (note that there's no "8" in the recurring decimal representation). (Ed.)
82: 82 is a happy number ('yorz)
83: When someone reaches 83 they may celebrate a second bar mitzvah. (Strawberry)
84: 84 is the sum of the first seven triangular numbers (making it a tetrahedral number), as well as the sum of a twin prime (41 + 43). Being thrice a perfect number, 84 is itself a semiperfect number. (nicholasjwest)
85: Arabigere 85 is a village in India. (Strawberry)
86: Darjeeling, India, is where Tenzing Norgay died in '86. He was in peak physical condition. (Subwaytion)
87: 87 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Inmarsat and other services. (Strawberry)
88: There are 88 constellations, as defined by the International Astronomical Union. (Southpaw)
89: 89 is the département number of Yonne. (Strawberry)
90: There are 90 psalms credited to Moses. (Iamtheelephant616)
91: 91 is the number for international direct dial phone calls to India. (Strawberry)
92: The average American child consumes 92 lbs of sugar per year. (Iamtheelephant616)
93: The sun is approximately 93 million miles away from the Earth. (Strawberry)
94: Haydn's Symphony No.94 in G Major is nicknamed "Surprise" in English and "Mit dem Paukenschlag" in German. (Albert Terry)
95: The 95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum), commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, was written by Martin Luther in 1517 and is widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. (Sophie.A)
96: US Route 96 is a north-south route in Texas. (Strawberry)
97: There were 97 victims of the Hillsborough disaster, including Andrew Devine, who died 32 years later from irreversible brain damage. (Ed.)
98: The code for international direct dial phone calls to Iran is +98. (Strawberry)
99: Ninety-nine is the shared name of two completely different card games, one invented by David Parlett, and the other of unknown origin. (dr bartolo)
100: In the UK, 100 is the operator telephone number. (Strawberry)
The Quite Incredible Number List: 101-200
101: In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Room 101 is the basement torture chamber in the Ministry of Love, in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to their own worst nightmare, fear or phobia, with the objective of breaking down their resistance. It was named after a conference room at the BBC's Broadcasting House. (bobwilson)
102: The Empire State Building has 102 floors. (Strawberry)
103: Haydn's Symphony No.103 in E Flat Major is nicknamed "Drum Roll" in English and "Mit dem Paukenwirbel" in German. (Albert Terry)
104: 104 is the number of guns on Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. (Strawberry)
105: The town of Dubna in Moscow Oblast, Russia, was officially inaugurated in 1956, together with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, where various outstanding physicists of the 20th century used to work. In recognition of the work done in discovering and investigating a number of elementary particles and heavy nuclei there, the chemical element with atomic number 105, dubnium (Db), was named after the town in 1997. (Sophie.A)
106: 106 is the maximum number of characters filenames can have in Joliet, an extension to the ISO 9660 file system. (Strawberry)
107: There are 107 different cleared stores configurations on the Harrier GRmk9/9A [refers to baseline Capability C2 configuration with no UORs or SEMs]. (PDR)
108: Stonehenge is 108 feet in diameter. (Strawberry)
109: The Messerschmidt me 109 was developed as part of the german model forces in the mid 1930s, but by the start of WW2 it was becoming rather dated, and attempts to upgrade it resulted in weight growth that gave it some nasty handling vices (especially on landing). (PDR)
110: The 110 Above Festival is held at Gopsall Hall Farm in Leicestershire. (Ed.)
111: NHS 111 is a non-emergency medical public helpline in England. (Strawberry)
112: 112 is the emergency number to dial across most of Europe -- even the UK phone system will allow it! (tetsabb)
113: 113 is the Argentina time telephone number. (Strawberry)
114: Launched at 14:39 GMT on 26 July 2005, STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. (Sophie.A)
115: 115 is the atomic number of moscovium, officially named in November 2016 after the Moscow Oblast, where it was first synthesised. It previously had the temporary name of "ununpentium". (Strawberry)
116: The 116 is an American Southern Christian hip hop collective. (Ed.)
117: 117 is the number to call Guardia di Finanza for customs/financial/border police in Italy. (Strawberry)
118: In 2006 Ray Parker Jr took part in a commercial for the directory enquiries company 118 118, using the theme tune of Ghostbusters, which he sang in the original film. The lyrics were adapted to "If there's something strange, going through your head, Who Ya Gonna Call? 118!", a little oddly since dialling "118" wouldn't have connected you to anything (being the prefix for several competing directory enquiries providers). (Ed., suggested by Sophie.A)
119: 119 is the number to report children/youth at risk in France. (Strawberry)
120: 120 is the age at which Moses died, thus the Hebrew blessing for old age ""עד מאה ועשרים שנה" -- "to one hundred and twenty years." (sjb)
121: A Chinese checkers board has 121 holes. (Strawberry)
122: Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall was the first of two Roman fortifications built across Great Britain, the second being the Antonine Wall. (Sophie.A)
123: Gordon and Susan Robinson live at 123 Sesame Street. (Albert Terry)
124: London Buses route 124 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, running between Eltham, Southend Crescent and Catford, St Dunstan's College. (Strawberry)
125: The M125 bomblet was a US chemical submunition designed to deliver the nerve agent sarin. It was brought into service in 1954 with the M34 cluster bomb as part of the first US air-delivered nerve agent weapon. (Sophie.A)
126: Gilgamesh purportedly lived to 126. (Strawberry)
127: 127 Hours is a 2010 biographical adventure film co-written, produced and directed by Danny Boyle. The film stars James Franco as mountain climber Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Robbers Roost, Utah in April 2003. (Sophie.A)
128: Ross 128 is a red dwarf star, eleventh closest star system to the Solar System. (Strawberry)
129: A catalogue of approximately 850 stars, thought to have been compiled in 129 BC, was made by Hipparchus, denoting the positions of these stars on a unique co-ordinate system. (Sophie.A)
130: The 130 nanometer process is a semiconductor process technology by semiconductor companies. (Strawberry)
131: Iodine-131, also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. Its uses are mostly medical and pharmaceutical. It also plays a role as a major radioactive hazard present in nuclear-fission products, and was a significant contributor to the health effects from open-air atomic bomb testing in the 1950s, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-131 (Sophie.A)
132: According to Wikipedia as at August 2023, Mongolia ranks #132 in world population. (Strawberry)
133: Since 1967, the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom. (Sophie.A)
134: Qatar ranks #134 in world population. (Strawberry)
135: An angle of 135° is called sesquiquadrate. (Sophie.A)
136: Whose Line Is It Anyway? ran on Channel 4 from 1988 to 1998 with 136 episodes. (Strawberry)
137: To the nearest whole number, 137 is the value of the reciprocal of the fine-structure constant. (Sophie.A)
138: Albania ranks #138 in world population. (Strawberry)
139: in the year 139 Zhang Heng, the chinese astronomer and inventor of the world's first water driven armillary sphere died. (dr bartolo)
140: 140 was the original Twitter entry character limit (based on the text messaging limit). (Strawberry)
141: The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force. Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, it was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. The aircraft remained in service for almost 40 years until the USAF withdrew the last C-141s from service in 2006, after replacing the airlifter with the C-17 Globemaster III. (Sophie.A)
142: Botswana ranks #142 in world population. (Strawberry)
143: In the same list, Lesotho ranks 143 in world population. (GL5)
144: The TV series Here's Lucy ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974 with 144 episodes. (Strawberry)
145: 145 is the fourth number that is the sum of two different pairs of squares. (dr bartolo)
146: M-146 was a former state highway route in Michigan. (Strawberry)
147: 147 is the highest break that can be achieved in a frame of snooker in which no foul shots are made. The fastest 147 break in a major snooker tournament was made by Ronnie O'Sullivan, who took 5 minutes 20 seconds to achieve the feat against Mick Price in the first round of the 1997 World Snooker Championship. (Sophie.A)
148: The TV series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran from 1990 to 1996 with 148 episodes. (Strawberry)
149: The A149 is a major route in Norfolk, linking Kings Lynn to Great Yarmouth. It runs via the coast rather than on a more direct route such as the A47. The eastern section runs through The Broads. (Sophie.A)
150: Bahrain ranks #150 in descending world-population order. (Albert Terry)
151: Bacardi 151 is an over-proof rum. The 151-proof liquor has an alcohol content of 75.5%, compared to the usual 35%-40%. (Tas)
152: The TV series Combat! ran from 1962 to 1967 with 152 episodes. (Strawberry)
153: The distinct prime factors of 153 add up to 20, and so do the ones of 154, hence the two form a Ruth-Aaron pair. (Tas)
154: The TV series Hazel ran from 1961 to 1966 with 154 episodes. (Strawberry)
155: AD 155 was the first year of Yongshou era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. (Tas)
156: The Lucy Show ran from 1962 to 1968 with 156 episodes. (Strawberry)
157: 157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is also a balanced prime. (In mathematics, a sexy prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by six. For example, the numbers 5 and 11 are both sexy primes, because they differ by 6. If p + 2 or p + 4 is also prime, then the sexy prime is part of a prime triplet.) (Tas)
158: The Dick Van Dyke Show ran from 1961 to 1966 with 158 episodes. (Strawberry)
159: The London Bus route 159 runs from Streatham to Paddington, via Westminster. (Tas)
160: Above the mediumwave broadcast band, 160 meters is the lowest radio frequency band allocation available to amateur radio operators in most countries. (Strawberry)
161: Bahrain and Brunei each have coastlines that are 161 kilometres in length. (Tas)
162: 162 is the total number of baseball games each team play during a regular season in Major League Baseball. (Strawberry)
163: The G.W.R 163 Auto Trailer Coach Trust is based at the Cambrian Railways Society in Oswestry. (Tas)
164: Mad About You ran from 1992 to 1999 for 164 episodes. (Strawberry)
165: Camp 165 was a WWII POW camp, situated in the Scottish Highlands, that housed some of the most hardline Nazis captured. (Tas)
166: Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom near 166th Street and Broadway in New York City on February 21, 1965. (Strawberry)
167: Bangkok's official name, translated into English, has 167 characters: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. (Tas)
168: There are 168 hours in a week. (gruff5)
169: 169 is the number of nonequivalent starting hands in the card game Texas Hold 'Em. (Strawberry)
170: For 170 days, every morning of the school year, Dale Price waved off his son's school bus wearing a different fancy dress outfit. His son was extremely embarrassed. (Zebra57)
171: Mission: Impossible ran from 1966 to 1973 with 171 episodes. (Strawberry)
172: 172 = 444 in base 6. (Ed.)
173: The Bob Cummings Show ran for 173 episodes. (Strawberry)
174: Alpha Cancri, a star system in the constellation Cancer, is approximately 174 light years from Earth. (Sophie.A)
175: Rosie and Jim ran on CITV from 1990-2000 with 175 episodes. (Strawberry)
176: A solar day on the planet Mercury lasts about 176 Earth days. (Sophie.A)
177: Water Rats ran from 1996-2001 with 177 episodes. (Strawberry)
178: Rheinberger's Horn Sonata in E flat major was his Op. 178. (Zebra57)
179: Matlock aired a total of 195 episodes over two series. 179 episodes were hour-long, and four 2-hour long. (Strawberry)
180: 180 is the highest score that can be achieved in a single turn in darts. (Zebra57)
181: 181 Eucharis is a large K-type Main belt asteroid. (Strawberry)
182: Turk 182 is a 1985 American action comedy-drama film directed by Bob Clark. (Zebra57)
183: TAKI 183, a former New York City graffiti artist with an address on 183rd Street, featured in Bomb It, a documentary. (Strawberry)
184: Ordnance Survey Landranger Map Sheet 184 features Salisbury and The Plain. (Zebra57)
185: Lucky Ladders was a daytime game show which aired on ITV from 1988-1993 for 185 episodes. (Strawberry)
186: The address of Fortnum & Mason is 181-186 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 9EH. (Zebra57)
187: Seliantika is a Greek coastal village located 187 km west of Athens. (Strawberry)
188: The London Transport 188 Bus runs from North Greenwich Station (near to the O2 Arena) to Russell Square via Waterloo. (Zebra57)
189: 189 Phthia is a bright rocky main belt asteroid. (Strawberry)
190: You can buy 190g pots of Muller Rice Strawberry flavour. (Zebra57)
191: 191 Peachtree Tower at 191 Peachtree Street is the fourth tallest skyscraper in Atlanta. (Strawberry)
192: 192.com is a free directory enquiry service, named after the former BT directory enquiries number. (Zebra57)
193: Night Court ran on NBC from 1984 to 1992 with 193 episodes. (Strawberry)
194: According to the US Department of State on April 13th 2011, there were 194 independent states in the world. (Zebra57)
195: Raymond Burr appeared in 195 episodes of Ironside. (Strawberry)
196: Sweet Child o' Mine (1987) by Guns N' Roses ranked 196 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (Zebra57)
197: The Cosby Show ran on NBC from 1984-1992 with 197 episodes (201 episodes in syndication). (Strawberry)
198: Star Trek Voyager episode 198 features the Borg and their arch-enemies Species 8472. (Zebra57)
199: For many years, the A199 was a local road in Edinburgh, running between Leith in the north and Joppa on the city's eastern fringe. Improvements to the A1 since the 1980s have seen the A199 extended further east on no less than three occasions as it has taken over the course of most of the old A1. It now runs for 26.2 miles from Leith to the Thistly Cross roundabout in Dunbar. (Ed.)
200: A cholesterol level of 200 and below is considered "Desirable level corresponding to lower risk for heart disease". (Strawberry)
Friday, August 18, 2023
The Quite Incredible Number List: 201-300
201: RAF Squadron 201 currently operates the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray. (Zebra57)
202: The E number of the preservative potassium sorbate is 202. (Strawberry)
203: Victoria No. 203 is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy film produced and directed by Brij. (Zebra57)
204: 204 is the HTTP status code indicating the request was received but there is no response to the request. (Strawberry)
205: The Peugeot 205 is a supermini (B-segment) car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1999. (Zebra57)
206: There are 206 bones in the typical adult human body. (Strawberry)
207: 207 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number. (Zebra57)
208: 208 is the area code for Idaho. (Strawberry)
209: The Year 209AD is reckoned by many scholars to be the year that Saint Alban was martyred. (Zebra57)
210: 210 is the smallest area of two different primitive Pythagorean triangles (20, 21, 29 and 12, 35, 37). (Strawberry)
211: 211 AD the Romans designated York (Eboracum) as its northern capital. Officially Eboracum was capital of Britannia Inferior. (Zebra57)
212: 212 is a fragrance by Caroline Herrera. (Strawberry)
213: 213 was an American hip hop trio supergroup from Long Beach, California composed of Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Nate Dogg. (Ed.)
214: 214 is a song by Rivermaya. (Strawberry)
215: The famous Pigalle Club in London was at 215 Piccadilly, W1. (Zebra57)
216: 216 is 6 cubed. (Ed.)
217: In The Shining, room 217 plays a central part of the story as it is haunted. (Strawberry)
218: P218 was the designation for a 1960s British "black" project for an air-deployed covert-insertion system. It involved a a medium-sized under-wing winged pod that would be dropped from a fighter-bomber at high subsonic speeds from a height of 500 feet. The pod was intended to carry three people and a couple of hundred pounds of personal equipment and on release would climbe to a throusand feet before splitting open and releasing the contents to proceed using their own parachutes. The design requirement called for the pod to be made from "100% combustible" materials (ie materials which could be relied upon to burn completely, leaving no residue of any kind). (PDR)
219: The Heinkel He219 "Uhu" ("Owl") was a very effective twin-engined night-fighter developed are Germany recognised how effective the RAF's airborne rader-equiped night-fighters had become. Fortunately Heinkel was regarded as "politically unsound" by the Nazi leadership, and so the project was given a low priority for resources. As a result very few were built and they had negligible effect on the course of WW2. The He219 was a very sophisticated aeroplane (the first operational aeroplane to feature ejection seats, for example) that has been largely forgotten by history. (PDR)
220: 220 is the title of a 1996 instrumental album by Phil Keaggy. (Strawberry)
221: 221b Baker Street was of course the address of a famous fictional drug addict and violin player. (PDR)
222: 222 is a song by Paul McCartney on the 2-CD edition of his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. (Strawberry)
223: Dr Dooom - Apartment 223 is a song by Kool Keith. (Zebra57)
224: In Kenya, there are 224 Members of Parliament. (Strawberry)
225: The A225 road runs from Dartford in the north to Sevenoaks in the south following the Darenth Valley in Kent, England. (Zebra57)
226: 519 is the telephone area code which covers most of southwestern Ontario and was introduced in 1953 from portions of area codes 416 and 613. In 1957, parts of 519 and 613 formed 705. It is mostly bounded by Area code 905, except for Simcoe County which is bordered by 705. It was overlaid with the new area code 226 on October 21, 2006, at which time ten-digit dialing became mandatory. Area code 226 is Canada's 25th geographical area code (not including area code 600). (Strawberry)
227: To the nearest gram, 8 ounces = 227 grams. (Zebra57)
228: The 228 Incident, also known as the 228 Massacre, was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that began on February 27, 1947, and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang (KMT) government. (Strawberry)
229: Rome at War AD 229-696 (Essential Histories) is a book by Michael Whitby. (Zebra57)
230: +230 is the country code for Mauritius. (Strawberry)
231: "Zimbabwe inflation hits 231 million per cent" was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 24/06/2011. (Zebra57)
232: 232 is the maximal number of regions into which 21 lines divide a plane. (Strawberry)
233: Uranium-233 is a fissile artificial isotope of uranium. (Zebra57)
234: 234 and 230 are North American telephone area codes for part of Northeast Ohio. (Strawberry)
235: 235 is a Smarandache-Wellin number, being the concatenation of the first three primes in base 10. (Ed.)
236: 236 is the number of possible positions in Othello after 2 moves by both players. (Strawberry)
237: Barbara of Baalbeck Heliopolis was martyred in 237 A.D. (Zebra57)
238: 238 is the sum of the first thirteen primes. (Strawberry)
239: Professor Dick Solomon, lead character on the TV show Third Rock from the Sun, teaches his classes in room number 239. (Zebra57)
240: The famous skit by the sketch comedy group Barry and Levon is entitled "$240 Dollars Worth of Padding". (Strawberry)
241: A "241 offer" (two-for-one offer) lets you take a friend for free. (Zebra57)
242: 242 is the area code of the Bahamas. (Strawberry)
243: .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge (Zebra57)
244: 244 is the smallest number (besides 2) that can be written as the sum of 2 squares or the sum of two 5th powers. (Strawberry)
245: Year 245 (CCXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Titianus. (Riddley)
246: The Dino 246 GT was the first automobile manufactured by Ferrari in high numbers. (Zebra57)
247: 247 = 50123 - 49876, and is the smallest number which can be expressed as the difference between two integers which together contain all digits 0-9. (Strawberry)
248: In Ireland in 2011, the National Disability Authority conducted a survey of 248 people with a disability to establish what extra costs they faced because of their disability. (Zebra57)
249: 249 Church of Christ is in Houston, Texas. (Riddley)
250: In the Alternative Vote referendum of 2011, the NO lobby claimed that the Alternative Vote would cost the UK an additional £250 million in electoral expenses. (Zebra57)
251: 251 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of three cubes in two ways. (Strawberry)
252: Atlantic 252 was an Irish longwave radio station broadcasting across Ireland and Great Britain from 1989 until 2002. (Zebra57)
253: 253 is the smallest non-trivial triangular star number. (Strawberry)
254: Shell announced it was buying 254 Total petrol stations in June 2011. (Zebra57)
255: 255 = 11111111 in base 2. (Strawberry)
256: The byte is the next standard unit above a bit. A byte is defined as 8 bits and can represent values from 0 to 255, or 2 to the power of 8 different values. A byte represents 256 different values. (Zebra57)
257: 257 is a Fermat prime. (Strawberry)
258: It is said that there were 258 bakers’ shops in Rome by the year 100BC. (Ed.)
259: 259 = 1111 in base 6. (Strawberry)
260: 260 is the maximal number of regions into which space can be divided by 10 spheres. (Zebra57)
261: 261 is the number of essentially different ways to dissect a 16-gon into 7 quadrilaterals. (Strawberry)
262: The ME 262 was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter plane. (Riddley)
263: 263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic, i.e. appears the same upside-down (69169). (Strawberry)
264: 264BC was the date of the outbreak of the First Punic War. (Zebra57)
265: 265 is the number of derangements of 6 items, i.e. arrangements in which no element appears in its original position. (Strawberry)
266: In his WW1 stories Captain James Bigglesworth (aka "Biggles") flew a Sopwith Camel, commanding B-Flight of 266Sqn RFC. (PDR)
267: 267 is the area code for Pennsylvania. (Strawberry)
268: The Battle of Mediolanum was in 268 AD. (Zebra57)
269: UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier was a mixed martial arts event that took place on December 11, 2021. (Ed.)
270: 270 degrees is three-quarters of a circle. (Ed.)
271: 271 is the smallest prime p such that p - 1 and p + 1 are divisible by cubes. (Strawberry)
272: The brief rule of the disabled King of Persia Hormazd I was in 272 AD. (Zebra57)
273: John Cage's composition 4'33" consists of 273 seconds (four minutes and 33 seconds) of silence, in three movements. (Strawberry)
274: The Simpsons Season 13 Episode 5, The Blunder Years, is the 274th of this iconic series. The family visit a restaurant where a hypnotist puts Homer in a trance. (Zebra57)
275: 275 is the number of partitions of 28 in which no part occurs only once. (Strawberry)
276: SurveyUSA interviewed 600 registered voters in each of the 50 US states on 03/06/2008 in advance of the Presidential election, a total of 30,000 interviews. They predicted that if John McCain faced Hillary Clinton, Clinton would win 276 to 262. (In fact the contest was between McCain and Barack Obama.) (Riddley)
277: 277 is a Perrin number. (Strawberry)
278: Found on a web site called Forum Jar. "Congratulations! You have found the 278 BC Forum on Forum Jar. This forum is a place where people who are interested in 278 BC come together and discuss about 278 BC". A specialist study forum as there does not appear to have been anything of significance going on at this time! (Zebra57)
279: 279 is the maximum number of 8th powers needed to sum to any number. (Strawberry)
280: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Piano Sonata No.2 in F Major, KV280, in Munich in 1774. (Sylvia)
281: 281 is the sum of the first 14 primes. (Strawberry)
282: The M25 is not a complete circle. The section of the London Orbital across the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge is actually the A282. (tetsabb)
283: On the first day of the fifth Test Match between England and Australia at the Oval in July 2023, England were bowled out for 283. (Ed.)
284: 284 degrees Celsius is the flash point of paper. (Strawberry)
285: On 08/09/2011, Lancashire scored 285-7 against Hampshire. (Riddley)
286: The Lockhead model 286 was an experimental helicopter that demonstrated the "rigid rotor" concept which allows modern helicopters to be more agile and yet more stable (especially at high speeds) whilst massively reducing the complexity of the rotor head. Unfortunately although they certified it as a civil helicopter then didn't manage to sell any, as is often the way with ground-breaking technologies. (PDR)
287: Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale setting for 4 voices "Dank sei Gott in der Höhe", BWV287, was composed before 1751 and published over 30 years later. (Sylvia)
288: 288 is the smallest non-palindrome non-square that when multiplied by its reverse is a square (288 x 882 = 254016 = 5042). (Strawberry)
289: There are 289 calories in 50 grams of almonds. (Chris.H)
290: 290 is the bearing you should be on when taking off from Gatwick in a generally westbound direction (tetsabb)
291: 291 is the commonly known name of an internationally famous art gallery that was located in Midtown Manhattan at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917. There was also a journal named after the gallery. (Strawberry)
292: The Route 292 bus in London runs between Colindale and Borehamwood. (Sylvia)
293: U-293 German U-boat was launched on 30th July 1943. It carried out six patrols before being surrendered at Loch Eriboll, Scotland on 11 May 1945, and was eventually scuttled on 13 Dec, 1945 in position 55.50N, 10.05W (off the NW coast of Ireland). (Spoilt Victorian)
294: No.294 Squadron was an air-sea rescue squadron that served in the eastern Mediterranean from 1943 until 1945 and then in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. The squadron was formed on 24 September 1943 around an existing air-sea rescue flight, and inherited the older unit's Walruses and Wellingtons. At first it operated from Libya, Cyprus and Palestine, but detachments were posted to Greece after the Germans withdrew. A number of Vickers Warwicks arrived in November 1944 and these aircraft were used for a mix of air-sea rescue and anti-submarine warfare duties. At its peak the squadron operated nine Walruses and about twenty-five Wellingtons and Warwicks. In June 1945 the squadron moved to Basra, and provided air-sea rescue cover over the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It was disbanded on 8 April 1946. (Spoilt Victorian)
295: In 2011 there was an increase of 295 tigers in India,according to the second all-India tiger population estimation study, carried out in the designated 39 tiger reserves across the country. The population was estimated at 1706, up from 1411 when they were counted previously. (Spoilt Victorian)
296: The Thames Path is a National Trail, opened in 1996, following the length of the River Thames from its source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to the Thames Barrier at Charlton. It is about 184 miles (296 km) long. (Sylvia)
297: 297 is a Kaprekar number: 2972 = 88209, and 88 + 209 = 297. (Ed.)
298: Sö 298 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Uringe Malm, which is about four kilometres west of Väländan, Stockholm County, Sweden, in the historic province of Södermanland. (Strawberry)
299: The year 299 (Julian calendar) was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1052 Ab urbe condita). ('yorz)
300: The 300 is the name given to the Spartans who fought to the death at the Battle of Thermopylae (although two were sent away prior to the battle and survived, Aristodemus and Pantites). (Strawberry)
The Quite Incredible Number List: 301-400
301: The Singer 301 was the 1st Slant-needle sewing machine. (nimravus)
302: The Model 302 telephone was manufactured in the United States between 1937 and 1955. (Ed.)
303: No. 303 ("Kościuszko") Polish Fighter Squadron was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It was the highest scoring RAF squadron of the Battle of Britain. (Spoilt Victorian)
304: The early Roman calendar consisted of 304 days divided into 10 months. The remaining 61 days of the solar year do not seem to have been counted. (Ed.)
305: From IMDb: "Based on the online smash hit, '305' is a mockumentary detailing the misadventures of five not-so-brave members of the Spartan army charged with guarding a seemingly ordinary goat path. But when their actions lead to the death of King Leonidas and his army of 300 men, the five must find a way to redeem themselves and save Sparta from invasion." (Spoilt Victorian)
306: The Peugeot 306 was manufactured between 1993 and 2002. (Zebra57)
307: The Peugeot 307 was the successor to the 306, manufactured in Europe between 2001 and 2008. (PDR)
308: 308 Holloway Road is the address of the aeromodelling emporium of Henry J Nicholls - one of the true characters on model flying in the 50s and 60s. (PDR)
309: No. 309 (Land of Czerwien) Polish Fighter-Reconnaissance Squadron was a Polish squadron formed in Great Britain as part of an agreement between the Polish government in exile and the United Kingdom and the UK in 1940. (Strawberry)
310: The 310 destroyer U.S.S. Ward was the first American ship to sink an enemy vessel in World War II. Her sister, the U.S.S. Rueben James, was the first U.S. DD lost in action in the same war. (nimravus)
311: 311 is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. (Ed.)
312: 312 persons died of drug or alcohol abuse in Jeddah in 2011. (Oceans Edge)
313: 313 is a palindromic prime in both decimal and binary. Binary representation: 100111001. (krollo)
314: A circle with a radius of 50 units has a circumference of approximately 314 units (actually 314.159..., which is 100 times pi). (Ed.)
315: 315 was a class of train which was replaced by the new Elizabeth Line stock. (Ed.)
316: 316 is the largest integer with a five-digit square. (316² = 99856, 317² = 100489.) (Ed.)
317: 317 Roxane is a main belt asteroid, about 19km in diameter. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois from Nice on September 11, 1891. The name was chosen by F. Bidschof, an assistant at theVienna Observatory, at Charlois's request; Bidschof chose to name it after Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great, and at first used the spelling Roxana. (markashley1961)
318: The British Rail Class 318 is an electric multiple unit train in western Scotland. (Strawberry)
319: 319 is a song by Prince, on his 17th album the Gold Experience. (Ed.)
320: There are 320 rods in a mile (a rod being 5½ yards. (Ed.)
321: 3-2-1 was a popular British game show that was made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It ran for ten years, between 29 July 1978 and 24 December 1988, with former Butlins Redcoat Ted Rogers as the host. (markashley1961)
322: Skull and Bones, also known as Order 322, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. (Ed.)
323: 323 Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was named in honour of Catherine Wolfe Bruce. (Strawberry)
324: 324 is 18 squared. (Ed.)
325: In November 2022, A sneaker care company broke a Guinness World Record in London when 325 people cleaned shoes at the same time. (Ed.)
326: USSR type R-326 is a self-contained HF intercept or monitoring receiver developed in the late 1950s. It replaced the R-311. The receiver was used either as a man-pack or man-portable, but was also fitted in vehicles. (markashley1961)
327: The Chevy 327 small block engine was produced between 1962 and 1969. It was the first of the 4" bore small blocks. The 4" bore is considered amongst enthusiasts as the 'pick of the bunch'. (Oceans Edge)
328: 328 is the sum of the first fifteen prime numbers: 328 = 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47. (Nehushtan)
329: LOCTITE® AA 329 (known as Loctite 329) is a straw-coloured, structural bonding liquid with a fast fixture time of 1 min that is activated with LOCTITE® SF 7386. (Big Martin)
330: The place where 33°30'N meets 33°30'E is near the Southern end of the island of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea, believed to host vast, unexplored archeological resources from nearby ancient cultures, allegedly even the lost city of Atlantis. Recent sonar imagery of the region reveals underwater structures resembling canals measuring 330 feet wide with 33-foot-high walls. (Izzardesque)
331: "Rondo Alla Turca" is the popular name for the finale of Mozart's Piano Sonata in A, KV 331. (Nehushtan)
332: Year 332 (CCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pacatianus and Hilarianus (or, less frequently, year 1085 Ab urbe condita). ('yorz)
333: AL 333, commonly referred to as the "First Family", is a collection of prehistoric hominid teeth and bones. Discovered in 1975 by Donald Johanson's team in Hadar, Ethiopia, the "First Family" is estimated to be about 3.2 million years old and consists of the remains of at least thirteen individuals. (krollo)
334: 334 is a science fiction novel by Thomas M. Disch. It was written in 1972 and set in New York in 2025. (Strawberry)
335: The Supermarine Type 335 was originally the type number allocated to an export order for spitfires for Greece which was refused an export license by the UK Government. The type-number was later re-used for a float-plane versions of the Spitfire initially considered for the defence of Norway, then the eastern Med and finally as part of the Tiger Force to invade Japan. Only trials aircraft were ever built and they never entred service despite being both high-performance and barely less manoeuverable than the float-less version. Coincidentally the Spitfire's successor (with a laminar-flow wing) was call the Spiteful, and the naval (carrier-borne) version of this was called the Seafang, which had a wing area of 335 square feet. (PDR)
336: The 336th Bomber Squadron, callsign "Olympus", is the second oldest squadron in service with the Hellenic Air Force, forming part of the 116th Combat Wing. ('yorz)
337: 337 was the year when the Roman empire was split in twain. Only the eastern lasted 1000 years (if you ignore the sacking of Constantinople). (Posital)
338: The 338 Lapua Magnum is a specialized rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed for military long-range sniper rifles. (Awitt)
339: The Aermacchi MB-339 is an Italian military trainer and light attack aircraft. It was developed as a replacement for the earlier MB-326. (Big Martin)
340: 340 = 41 + 42 + 43 + 44. (Ed.)
341: 341 is the first "Fermat pseudoprime" to base 2. All primes p (except 2) have the property that p divides 2p-1 with remainder 1, but the converse is not necessarily true. If p divides 2p-1 with remainder 1, then p is prime for all values of p < 341. However 341 divides 2340 with remainder 1, but is equal to 11 x 31. (GuyBarry)
342: During The Boston Tea Party (Thursday, December 16, 1773) 342 containers of tea (that's 90,000 lbs, or 45 tons) were thrown overboard. (nimravus)
343: The speed of sound in air is approximately 343 metres per second. (Ed.)
344: The A344 is a road that gradually disappeared from the map. Its original route was from Weyhill near Andover in Hampshire to Heytesbury near Warminster in Wiltshire, but the eastern section was incorporated into the A303 in the 1930s, and the western section was downgraded to a B-road in the 1970s. This left a two-mile stub near Stonehenge, which was officially closed in June 2013 to allow the stones to appear in a more natural setting. (GuyBarry)
345: The Kadamba dynasty in India was founded in approximately 345 AD. (Ed.)
346: In Dewey Decimal Classification the number 346 refers to Private Law. A personal favourite category there is: 346.94046959222 Kangaroos--resource economics--law. (AlmondFacialBar)
347: 347 is a so-called "Friedman number": it can be represented in a non-trivial fashion using only its own digits and the standard arithmetic operators, viz. 347 = 73 + 4. (GuyBarry)
348: Section 348 of the Commonwealth Migration Act of 1958, is where decisions must be reviewed subject to sub-section 2, if an application has been made properly. But it cannot be reviewed under Section 339 if a conclusive certificate has been registered. (Awitt)
349: There are 349 seats in the Riksdag/Swedish Parliament. (Strawberry)
350: It was reported in 2013 that a trust fund set up by an anonymous donor in 1928 for the purposes of paying off the National Debt had grown to £350 million, but the money could not be used because of the stipulation that the entire debt must be paid off at once (at the time £1.2 trillion, or around 3400 times as much). (GuyBarry)
351: 351 is the international phone code for Portugal. (Awitt)
352: City Ordinance number 352 in Pacific Grove, CA makes it a misdemeanour to kill or threaten a butterfly. (nimravus)
353: 353 is the smallest number whose fourth power can be written as the sum of four fourth powers: 3534 = 304 + 1204 + 2724 + 3154. (GuyBarry)
354: 354 is the telephone code for Iceland. (Awitt)
355: 355/113 is an astonishingly close rational approximation to pi, being within 0.000009% of the true value. To get a better rational approximation you need five digits in the denominator (52163/16604). (GuyBarry)
356: 356 BC is the first recorded time a non-noble was chosen as Dictator of Rome. Gaius Marcius Rutilus was interesting in his own right, because he ordered the first recorded attack by night against an enemy (the Etruscans) on the field of battle, before they were 'ready', and captured over 8000 prisoners, routing the Etruscans with almost no losses. However, the patricians in the Senate refused to award him a Triumph a procession, an arch, a set of laurel leaves) because they hated him for his plebeian roots. Not to be denied 'their' man's day, the people of Rome held a Triumph for him. When he stood for election as Consul five years later, the Senate cancelled the planned elections, but the people turned up and voted for him anyway. (chrisboote)
357: In a normal year in England and Wales, there are 357 days that are not designated as public holidays. This excludes leap years and any years that have additional bank holidays. (GuyBarry)
358: 358 is the International Dialling Code for Finland. (Big Martin)
359: Douglas Adams once claimed that 359 was the funniest three-digit number. (Ed.)
360: 360 is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services l-form Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er) or Special Immigrant. (Strawberry)
361: 361 is the area code for the Corpus Christi in Texas. (Awitt)
362: Numbuh 362/Rachel McKenzie was a character in a cartoon called Codename: Kids Next Door. (Strawberry)
363: 363 AD saw the battle of Ctesiphon between the Romans and the Sassanid Persians. A tactical Roman victory, but they had to withdraw due to over-extended supply lines. (Big Martin)
364: 364 AD was the year Valentinian I (also known as Valentinian the Great) became the last great Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. (chrisboote)
365: 365 days is not the length of an Earth year (though it is of course the length of a common calendar year). (PDR)
366: 366 geometry (also called 366-degree geometry and megalithic geometry) is an hypothetical geometry (using a 366 degree as oppose to the standard 360 degree circle) that was used and created by an alleged megalithic civilization of Britain and France. This opinion is regarded, at best, as pseudoscience by all mainstream scientists. (nimravus)
367: Number 367 is a character from the Dept. Heaven video games. (Strawberry)
368: There are 368 ways to tile a 4x15 rectangle with the twelve pentominoes. (GuyBarry)
369: The Giants Causeway is No. 369 on the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. (Big Martin)
370: 33 + 73 + 03 = 370. (chrisboote)
371: ...and 33 + 73 + 13 = 371. There are only four three-digit numbers with this property, which are known as "narcissistic numbers". (GuyBarry)
372: The Halberg-Rassy 372 was the yacht of the year in 2010. (Big Martin)
373: Water boils at approximately 373 kelvin. (GuyBarry)
374: The Eppler 374 aerofoil section was very popular for aerobatic radio-controlled gliders in the mid 1980s, before being superseded by more advanced sections better suited to all-composite contruction. (PDR)
375: 375 is a purity mark in gold jewellery, indicating 375 parts per thousand. This is equivalent to 9 carat (24 carat being pure gold). (Awitt)
376: 376 is an automorphic number, meaning that 376 x 376 (141376) ends in 376. There are only two 3-digit automorphic numbers, the other being 625. (chrisboote)
377: The Aero Spacelines B-377 SG Super Guppy is a four-engine oversize-cargo freighter aircraft. (Strawberry)
378: 378 is the maximum number of regions a cube can be cut into with 13 cuts. (GuyBarry)
379: Highway 379 is in the Saskatchewan region of Canada. (Awitt)
380: The Airbus A380 is the world's largest passenger airliner. (GuyBarry)
381: 381 is (outdated) chatroom slang for "I love you" (3 words, 8 letters, 1 meaning). (chrisboote)
382: CAP382 is the Civil Aviation Authority's mandatory occurence reporting scheme. (Big Martin)
383: In the Hebrew calendar, a leap year is at least 383 days long. (GuyBarry)
384: A Chinese leap year may have 384 full days. (Strawberry)
385: 385 is the sum of the first ten perfect squares. If you stack spheres in the shape of a pyramid with a square base, ten spheres per side, then you will need exactly 385 of them. (GuyBarry)
386: The National Pokédex number for Deoxys is 386. (Strawberry)
387: In 2009, Norway won the Eurovision Song Contest with 387 points - at the time the highest total in the history of the competition. (GuyBarry)
388: The Junkers Ju 388 was a Germany World War II aircraft. (Strawberry)
389: The Best 389 Colleges is a publication by the Princeton Review, based on its surveys of college students in the US about their schools. (Ed.)
390: The 390 is a medium-size, twin-engine jet-powered military transport aircraft under development by Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. (Awitt)
391: BA391 is the British airways flight from Tenerife to London Heathrow. (franticllama)
392: 392 is the second Japanese album by the South Korean rock band CN Blue. (GuyBarry)
393: Aer Lingus flight EI393 goes from Hamburg to Dublin. (AlmondFacialBar)
394: "Turn to page 394" is a line used by Alan Rickman's character Severus Snape in the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which has become something of an internet meme. It doesn't seem to have any great significance, but Rickman repeats it several times in a rather menacing voice. (GuyBarry)
395: 395 is the number of the high featured QR-calculating time recorder was developed for easy payroll operation. (Awitt)
396: 396 is equal to the sum of all numbers formed from permutated samples of two of its digits: 396 = 36 + 63 + 39 + 93 + 69 + 96. (GuyBarry)
397: If you play Settlers of Catan, you probably already know that 397 is the number of hexes on a Settlers board with 12 hexes per side. (chrisboote)
398: The road number A398 has not been used in Great Britain since 1935. It originally ran from Norton Fitzwarren in Somerset to South Molton in Devon, but was absorbed into the A361. Nowadays it is part of the B3227. (GuyBarry)
399: 399 is the smallest Lucas-Carmichael number. (Strawberry)
400: The Gregorian calendar cycle repeats itself exactly (including the day of the week) once every 400 years. (GuyBarry)
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Quite Incredible Number List: 401-500
401: 401 was the hull number of the RMS Titanic. (Strawberry)
402: The Kids from Room 402 is a US television programme that originally aired on Fox Family in 1999. (GuyBarry)
403: The Peugeot 403 became world famous because it was the model driven by one Lieutenant Frank Columbo. (AlmondFacialBar)
404: 404 is the ubiquitous "page not found" error code for the World-Wide Web. (PDR)
405: The '405' is the local nickname for the downtown area of Oklahoma City, based upon its telephone code. (chrisboote)
406: The 406 is a bus route in Melbourne, running in the western suburbs. (Awitt)
407: There are only four three-digit narcissistic numbers - numbers that are the sum of the cubes of their own digits. Three of them are 153, 370 and 371. The fourth is 407 = 43 + 03 + 73. (GuyBarry)
408: 408 CE was the year the first Byzantine emperor, Flavius Arcadius, died. (AlmondFacialBar)
409: 409 is a song by the Beach Boys, originally released as the B-side to "Surfin' Safari". The title is a reference to the Chevrolet 409. (GuyBarry)
410: The .410 bore is the smallest gauge of gun shell commonly available. (AlmondFacialBar)
411: 411 is a US slang term for "information", derived from the number normally used for directory assistance (as directory enquiries is known over there). (GuyBarry)
412: Section 412 is part of the Australian Migration Act of 1958. (Awitt)
413: 413 was the year Augustine began to write City of God, which was later not adapted into the movie of the same name. (Webster100)
414: There are 414 steps to the top of the Campanile next to the Duomo in Florence. (chrisboote)
415: 415 Records was a San Francisco record label created in 1978, specializing in punk rock and new wave music. (GuyBarry)
416: Highway 416 is referred to as the Veterans highway, through Ontario, Canada. (Awitt)
417: §417 of the German Civil Procedure Code concerns itself with the power of proof of a publicly issued legal certificate. (AlmondFacialBar)
418: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, published as an April Fool's joke in 1998, contained the error code "418 I'm a teapot". (GuyBarry)
419: The "Nigerian Scam" is also known as a 419 scam as it is covered by that number part of the Nigerian Legal Code. (Big Martin)
420: 420 is an American slang term referring to cannabis consumption. (GuyBarry)
421: The New South Wales 421 class are a class of diesel locomotive built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the New South Wales Government Railways between December 1965 and July 1966. (Awitt)
422: 422 is the maximum number of regions into which 21 circles divide the plane. (GuyBarry)
423: 423 is one of the easiest patterns for juggling three balls. (Webster100)
424: The 4-2-4 was the first formation in association football to be described using numbers. (Ed.)
425: Section 425 of the Australian Crime Act of 1958 lists alternative verdicts for certain charges. (Awitt)
426: The Chrysler 426 Hemi engine, first produced in 1964, was nicknamed "The Elephant". (GuyBarry)
427: The Shelby-modified Ford 427 cu in (7 litre) V8 engine was the archetypal american "muscle" sports car engine of the late 60s and early 70s. Crude but reliable, the engine developed less than half the specific output of the more sophisticated european engines, but being big, lazy and under-stressed they were extremely reliable and tolerant of abuse. (PDR)
428: Betelgeuse is 428 light years away. (AlmondFacialBar)
429: 429 Records is an American record label. (GuyBarry)
430: The Ferrari 430 is a sports car produced from 2004 to 2009. (Strawberry)
431: 431 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force (the Snowbirds) are an aerobatic display team (chrisboote)
432: In the late 19th century, the composer Giuseppe Verdi tried to standardise orchestral pitch so that the note A above middle C was set to 432 Hz, sometimes known as "Verdi tuning". (440 Hz is now commonly used as the standard.) (Awitt)
433: 433 metres medium wave (corresponding to a frequency of 693 kHz) is one of the wavelengths on which BBC Radio 5 Live is transmitted. (GuyBarry)
434: 434 is the ID of the agouti gene in mice. (AlmondFacialBar)
435: There are 435 members of the US House of Representatives. (Webster100)
436: Gliese 436b is an Exoplanet covered in ice even though its surface temperature is 439 degrees C. This is assumed to be due to its high atmospheric pressure keeping the water solid in a process called "hot ice". (GuyBarry)
437: The Republic of Ireland's Statutory Instrument 437/2011 concerns itself with the reform of the Irish Central Bank in the wake of the 2008 economic crash. (AlmondFacialBar)
438: 438 Marketing is a brand communications agency with offices in Knutsford, Cheshire and Sevenoaks, Kent. (GuyBarry)
439: 439 is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1898. (Strawberry)
440: The .440 Cor-bon cartridge is designed to give better penetration and stopping for lower recoil for Magnum .44 handguns (chrisboote)
441: 441 and its reverse are both perfect squares. (441 = 212, 144 = 122.) (GuyBarry)
442: When the 4-4-2 formation was first introduced to German professional football it was highly controversial and cost at least one coach his job. (AlmondFacialBar)
443: Route 443 is the main road connecting Tel Aviv with Jerusalem and the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Palestinians were banned from using it in 2002 and, although the ban was lifted in 2010, access is still highly problematic for them. (GuyBarry)
444: 444 is the name of two, unrelated electronic music songs, by Autechre and The Fireman. (Webster100)
445: The year 46 BC was 445 days long, owing to the change in the Roman calendar brought in by Julius Caesar. (GuyBarry)
446: 446 Aeternitas is an asteroid discovered in 1899. (Strawberry)
447: Flight AF 447 crashed into the Atlantic on its way from Rio De Janeiro to Paris on 01-June-2009 with no survivors. The conclusive accident report took over three years to assemble and blames an ignored technical problem plus pilot error. (AlmondFacialBar)
448: The long term effect of listening Mozart's K.448 "Sonata for Two Pianos" seems to be to significantly reduce seizures in epileptic children. (chrisboote)
449: 449 are an alternative rock band from Burkesville, Kentucky. (GuyBarry)
450: 450 million years ago marks the first appearance of sea urchins in the fossil record. (AlmondFacialBar)
451: The title of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 comes from the temperature at which paper supposedly burns - about 233 degrees C. (There seems to be a lot of variation between sources as to the actual figure though: one source puts it as high as 450 degrees C.) (GuyBarry)
452: 452 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air traffic control unit. It was originally formed in 1941 as a fighter squadron. (Awitt)
453: 453 is the only number n such that n, 2n, and 6n together contain every digit exactly once: 453, 906, 2718. (GuyBarry)
454: 454 metric grams make one imperial pound (to the nearest gram). (AlmondFacialBar)
455: .455 Webley is a British handgun cartridge, most commonly used in the Webley top break revolvers Marks I through VI. (Efros)
456: In Torchwood the 456 were an alien race who used human children as a recreational drug. (AlmondFacialBar)
457: A 457 visa allows temporary skilled workers to come to Australia and work for an approved business for up to four years. (GuyBarry)
458: In 2012 458 Ferrari 458s were newly registered in Germany. (AlmondFacialBar)
459: If you reverse the digits of 459, and then subtract the original number, you get another number with the same digits: 954 - 459 = 495. 459 is the smallest number with this property. (Ed.)
460: .460 and .460 Magnum may refer to four different firearms cartridges: .460 Weatherby Magnum, .460 S&W Magnum, .460 Steyr and .460 Rowland. (Efros)
461: There are 461 ways to stack 18 pennies in contiguous rows so that each penny lies on the table or on two pennies. (GuyBarry)
462: In 462 CE one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed by fire after being moved to Constantinople. (AlmondFacialBar)
463: 463 Communications is a company based in Washington, DC and San Francisco. The name comes from a type of "double play" in baseball. (GuyBarry)
464: 464 Gallery is an art gallery/gift shop and event space in Buffalo, New York. (Awitt)
465: A465 is the number of the "Heads of the Valleys Road", a major road linking the northern ends of the South Wales Valleys. (GuyBarry)
466: K. 466 is the 20th Piano Concerto in d-minor. (AlmondFacialBar)
467: 467 was the year of the consulship of Pusaeus and Iohannes. ('yorz)
468: London Bus route 468 terminates at South Croydon... (AlmondFacialBar)
469: 469 is a value of n for which n! - 1 is prime. (GuyBarry)
470: In the Dewey Decimal classification 470 is allocated to Latin and Italic languages. (PDR)
471: Food additive E471 is mono & diglycerides, fatty acids used as emulsifiers and stabilisers. (Big Martin)
472: Thai airways flight 472 goes from Sydney to Bangkok. The route normally operates a Boeing 747-400. (franticllama)
473: US Postal Exam 473 is taken by applicants for letter carrier and postal processing positions. (GuyBarry)
474: Vinyl tape 474 is a grey, 6.3 mm flame resistant tape and ideal for a vapour barrier. (Awitt)
475: 475 has a square that is made up of the squares of other numbers: 475 squared = 225625, 15 squared = 225, and 25 squared = 625. (Also 256 occurs inside it, which is 16 squared.) (GuyBarry)
476: 476 is a type of visa that allows recent engineering graduates to get up to 18 months of work experience in Australia. (Awitt)
477: Dusknoir is the Pokémon whose number is 477. A Dusknoir appears in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness as a main villain of the game. He is a tyrant from the future world and deceives everyone into trusting him. (chrisboote)
478: 478 is the seventh Pell-Lucas number. (Strawberry)
479: 479° Popcorn comes from San Francisco. (GuyBarry)
480: 480 Hansa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, and the namesake for the Hansa family of high-inclination asteroids. (Strawberry)
481: In humans, gene 481 codes for a protein that is used in cell membranes. (Webster100)
482: 01482 (previously 0482) is the dialling code for Hull - unique because it's the only exchange not covered by the BT network. (GuyBarry)
483: AS483 is the standard covering minimum requirements for skid control equipment for use on all types and models of civil aircraft. (chrisboote)
484: 484 is a palindromic perfect square - one of only three with three digits. (GuyBarry)
485: At the time, Year 485 was also known by the eloquent nickname, "Year of the Consulship of Memmius without colleague." (Webster100)
486: 486 is the number of a bus service that runs Fridays and Tuesdays between Dublin and Enniskillen (chrisboote)
487: 1/3 = 0.33333333333... The repeating part is 3, and 3 divides 3. When does this next happen? Not until 1/487 = 0.00205338809034... (the repeating part is too long to write out, but 487 divides into it). The only other number for which this property is known is 56598313. (GuyBarry)
488: Local 488 represents the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters in Edmonton, AB, Canada. (AlmondFacialBar)
489: 489 is the ninth octahedral number, representing the number of close-packed spheres in an octahedron with nine on each side. (GuyBarry)
490: 490 is the area code for the city of Thalassery in India. (AlmondFacialBar)
491: 491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by Lars Görling. (Awitt)
492: The number A492 is not currently allocated to a road in Great Britain. It was originally a route from Llangurig to Caersws that was incorporated into the A470. (GuyBarry)
493: United Nations Security Council resolution 493 from 1981 concerned itself with the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War. (AlmondFacialBar)
494: St George, patron saint of England, was canonized in 494. He is also the patron saint of Georgia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria. Plus the Boy Scout movement, the Romany, people with skin diseases or herpes or leprosy or syphilis or the plague, agricultural workers, archers; armourers, the Bulgarian Army, butchers, cavalrymen, chivalry, The Corinthians (a Brazilian football team), Crusaders, equestrians, farmers, field workers, horses, animal husbandmen, knights, the Order of the Garter, the Portuguese Army and Navy, saddle makers, sheep and shepherds, soldiers, and the Teutonic Knights. (chrisboote)
495: Try this little mathematical exercise:Repeating this process will always reach 495 in a few steps. Once 495 is reached, the process stops because 954 - 459 = 495. E.g. start with 681: 861 - 168 = 693, 963 - 369 = 594, 954 - 459 = 495. (GuyBarry)
(1) Start with any three-digit number with at least two digits different. (2) Arrange the digits in ascending and then in descending order to get two three-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary. (3) Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number. (4) Go back to step 2.
496: 496 is of vital importance to string theory and the discovery of that fact in 1984 started the first superstring revolution. (AlmondFacialBar)
497: United Nations Security Council resolution 497, adopted unanimously on 17 December 1981, calls on the State of Israel to rescind its de facto annexation of the Golan Heights. (GuyBarry)
498: The 498 Spanish Martyrs were victims of the Spanish Civil War. (Big Martin)
499: Hanif Mohammad was run out for 499 playing for Karachi against Bahawalpur in 1959, a record for the highest individual first-class innings that stood until Brian Lara's 501 in 1994 (see also #501). (GuyBarry)
500: The Fiat 500 is a city car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat between 1957 and 1975. (Strawberry)
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