Tuesday, July 25, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 4301-4400

4301: Labour won the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election held in February 2014, but UKIP, previously fifth, polled 4301 votes to push the Conservatives into third place. (GuyBarry)
4302: Here is a Hubble telescope image of the paired spiral galaxies NGC 4302 and NGC 4298. (Big Martin)
4303: The A427 used to be a long and important route in the Midlands, but gradually over the years parts of it were reclassified and it lost its importance. One short section of the former route, running between the A5 and the M1 near Lutterworth in Leicestershire, is now the A4303. (GuyBarry)
4304: Acqualagna in the Italian region of Marche is one of the major Italian centres for truffles. As at December 31 2004 it had a population of 4,304. (Big Martin)
4305: Did you know that Ipswich experiences a humid subtropical climate with hot and humid summers, mild to warm winters with cool overnight temperatures and heavy summer storms? That's Ipswich, Queensland, of course - postcode 4305. (GuyBarry)
4306: Fleischmann product 4306 is a HO gauge model of a German electric rack-and-pinion locomotive of 1924. (Big Martin)
4307: In a 2017 survey of 4307 people in the United States, Germany and Britain, 75 per cent said their government should engage with proscribed terrorist organizations. (GuyBarry)
4308: HIP 4308 is a blue to white star that can be found in the constellation of Cetus. (Big Martin)
4309: 4309 is the smallest integer whose cube is greater than 80,000,000,000 (43093 = 80,007,275,629). (GuyBarry)
4310: The 4310th Air Division was an administrative unit of the USAF controlling deployments of bombers to bases in Morocco from 1958 to 1963. (Big Martin)
4311: According to the Urban Dictionary, when you ask for something on a message board that obviously no one is going to give you, it's called a "4311". I have no idea why. (GuyBarry)
4312: Martina restaurant is at 4312 South Upton Avenue, Minneapolis. (Big Martin)
4313: Released in 2015, 4313 is the debut album from the Ibiza-based Swiss DJ and producer Andrea Oliva. (GuyBarry)
4314: A 2017 post on Democracy Club claims there are 4,314 postcodes that are split across local authority boundaries, meaning that if you live in one of those areas it's not possible to use postcode data to determine which council area you're in. (Big Martin)
4315: The article on Reciprocal Altruism in the Oxford Reference Encyclopedia of Evolution is 4315 words long. (GuyBarry)
4316: No. 4316 on Cottage-Choice is Island View Cottage in Bantry, County Cork. (Big Martin)
4317: You can contact the Arts Council England Customer Services Team on 0161 934 4317. (GuyBarry)
4318: The Atterberg limits are a basic measure of the water contents of a fine-grained soil. The liquid limit is defined by ASTM standard test method D 4318. (Big Martin)
4319: In 1947, the baseball player Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play on a major sports team. Thirty-four years later, the American astronomer Schelte John "Bobby" Bus named the minor planet 4319 Jackierobinson in his honour. (GuyBarry)
4320: The Ural 4320 is a 6x6 truck used by the Russian army and in production since 1976. (Big Martin)
4321: 4 3 2 1 is a novel by Paul Auster published in January 2017, telling the story of Archie Ferguson at four different times, and in four different versions. (GuyBarry)
4322: The ammunition for the German WW2 Panzerschreck antitank weapon was the RPzB. Gr. 4322 HEAT rocket. (Big Martin)
4323: 22 + 32 + 42 + ... + 232 = 4323. This is one less than the 23rd square pyramidal number. (GuyBarry)
4324: In August 2017 Watts Up With That reported that a 4,324 day major hurricane drought had ended with the arrival of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. (Big Martin)
4325: Jack Kilmer played prisoner 4325 in the 2015 American docudrama film The Stanford Prison Experiment. (See also #8612.) (Ed.)
4326: The World Geodetic System is a standard for use in cartography, geodesy and navigation. The latest revision is WGS84 - also known as EPSG:4326. (Big Martin)
4327: In 2014, Facebook's UK arm paid only £4327 in corporation tax, despite paying out more than £35 million in staff bonuses. (GuyBarry)
4328: FAST J0139+4328 is a potential dark galaxy - a hypothesized galaxy with no (or very few) stars. (Ed.)
4329: 4329 is a factor of 999999, dividing 231 times. (GuyBarry)
4330: Capitol single number 4330 is I want the whole world to love you by Gene Barry released in the USA in January 1960. (Big Martin)
4331: This publicity still for Psycho, featuring Anthony Perkins, is image number 4331 in the Hitchcock Gallery. (GuyBarry)
4332: Skeptoid episode 4332 is a scientific attack on the Phantom Time Hypothesis. (Big Martin)
4333: To the nearest whole number, the orbital period of Jupiter is 4333 Earth days. (GuyBarry)
4334: Lit 4334: The Golden Age of Children's Literature contains a number of essays on Pinocchio. (Big Martin)
4335: In 2013, a Russian choir of 4335 gathered near St Isaac's cathedral in St Petersburg to honour the city's 310th anniversary and aim to break the Guinness record for the world's largest choir. (GuyBarry)
4336: Entry 4336 on Hall of Light - the database of amiga games is about Rage, an unreleased "shoot 'em up" game. (Big Martin)
4337: In the general election held in the former British protectorate of Nyasaland (now Malawi) in 1961, the Malawi Congress Party took 22 of the 28 seats. There were two voter rolls, a lower roll with a predominantly African electorate, which elected 20 members, and had 106,095 registered voters, and a higher roll of largely European and Asian electors, which elected eight members, with 4337 registered voters. (For comparison, the total population of Nyasaland at the time was somewhere between 3 and 4 million.) (GuyBarry)
4338: The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters is a novel written in 1835 by Vladimir Odoevsky. (Big Martin)
4339: Camera number 4339 on the M25 is situated just near the non- stop excitement that is Clackert Lane Services in Surrey. (tetsabb)
4340: AISI 4340 is a medium carbon, low alloy steel. (Big Martin)
4341: Winchester had a population of 4341 at the 2010 census - not the one in Hampshire, but the one in New Hampshire, USA. (To confuse things further, the American Winchester is located in Cheshire County!) (GuyBarry)
4342: LibriVox's author entry 4342 is for St Ambrose - a 4th century archbishop of Milan and one of the 4 original "doctors of the Church". (Big Martin)
4343: The B4343 in mid-Wales is nearly 25 miles long - quite a distance for a B-road. It runs mainly across Cardiganshire, from Dyffryn Castell to Cwmann near Lampeter. (GuyBarry)
4344: ISO 4344 is the standard for steel wire ropes for lifts. (Big Martin)
4345: There are 4345 self-avoiding walks with 18 steps on a plane square lattice. A self-avoiding walk is a sequence of moves that does not visit the same point more than once. Easier to visualize than to describe. (GuyBarry)
4346: 4346 Wisteria Lane is the address of one of the characters in the TV series Desperate Housewives. (Big Martin)
4347: 4347 is the smallest number greater than 1 that is simultaneously a heptagonal number and a pentagonal number. In each case, the designation refers to the number of dots in a pattern of nested polygons (7-sided or 5-sided) that share a common vertex. (GuyBarry)
4348: UK Data Service's number 4348 is Historic Parishes of England and Wales. (Big Martin)
4349: At least 4349 people were killed in the huge earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015. (GuyBarry)
4350: On November 25th 2017, volunteers organised by Thames 21 collected a record 4,350 single-use plastic bottles during a 3-hour litter pick. (Big Martin)
4351: The year 2018 is the year 4351 in the traditional Korean (Dangun) calendar. (GuyBarry)
4352: The Argus of January 15th carried a story of an estate agency sponsoring Brighton and Hove Soiree Rotary Club's Christmas tree collection, which raised £4352 for charity. (Big Martin)
4353: The sequence of keystrokes 4353 can spell either "held" or "idle" in the T9 predictive text system for mobile phones. (GuyBarry)
4354: In September 2017, the resident population of St Helena was estimated at 4354. (Big Martin)
4355: WY-4355 was the developmental code name for chloroethynylnorgestrel. (GuyBarry)
4356: MoMa artists entry 4356 is for the Mexican artist Juan O'Gorman 1905-1982. (Big Martin)
4357: The prime number 4357 = 662 + 1. It is conjectured that there are infinitely many primes of the form n2 + 1, but surprisingly this has never been proved. (GuyBarry)
4358: National Portrait Gallery image 4358 is of Sir Thomas More - an early C17th copy of a portrait of 1527 by Holbein. (Big Martin)
4359: The Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 4359 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is one of the oldest African-American Christian Science congregations in the United States. It was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1993. (GuyBarry)
4360: The Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major was the largest displacement aircraft piston engine ever mass produced in the United States. (Big Martin)
4361: The route of the A4361 runs close to the prehistoric stone circles at Avebury. It used to form part of the A361, a remarkable road that runs for over 200 miles in a strange J-shaped route from north Devon all the way to Kilsby in Northamptonshire. (GuyBarry)
4362: 4362 Carlisle is an asteroid of the Flora family. (Big Martin)
4363: Episode 4363 of Coronation Street was broadcast on 6 March 1998. (GuyBarry)
4364: Virginia Tech undergrad course ECE4364 is Alternate Energy Systems. (Big Martin)
4365: The "equation" 398712 + 436512 = 447212 occurs briefly in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace". It can't be a genuine equation, because of Fermat's Last Theorem. But the two sides agree to 10 decimal digits, so that the values would appear to be the same on many calculators. It's one of a number of mathematical jokes smuggled into The Simpsons. (GuyBarry)
4366: The population of Ottery St Mary in the 2001 census was 4,366. (Big Martin)
4367: Hoeryeongbong in South Korea has an elevation of 4367 feet. (Ed.)
4368: There are 4368 ways of choosing five objects out of 16 when the order is unimportant, because 4368 occurs as the fifth binomial coefficient in the 16th row of Pascal's triangle. (GuyBarry)
4369: According to the Gov.uk website's asylum statistics 4,369 Syrian nationals were granted humanitarian protection in 2016. (Big Martin)
4370: The Freedom-class cruise ship MS Independence of the Seas, operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line, can accommodate 4370 passengers. (GuyBarry)
4371: Australian Standard AS 4371-2012 relates to ceramic tableware. (Big Martin)
4372: This Chinese 5-style calligraphy dictionary contains 4372 words and 31092 ways of writing them. (GuyBarry)
4373: Angel Light 4373 claims to be a clairvoyant, clairsentient and astrologer. (Big Martin)
4374: 4374 is a radical narcissistic number, i.e. it can be expressed using just its own digits, in the same order, and the normal arithmetical operators plus exponentiation and the square root symbol.
4374 = (4 x 37)/√4
(GuyBarry)
4375: Greek law 4375/2016 was for asylum reform in the wake of the EU-Turkey deal. (Big Martin)
4376: Monogram Pictures was a Hollywood studio that produced low-budget films from 1931 to 1953. It was based at 4376 Sunset Drive, which is now part of the Church of Scientology Media Center. (GuyBarry)
4377: Cornell University Library arXiv1304:4377 is Dynamic Effects on the Habitable Properties of Earth-like Exomoons, a paper by Duncan Forgan and David Kipping. (Big Martin)
4378: Add together the digits of 4378 to give 22. This is a factor of 4378, making 4378 a Harshad number. Now subtract 22 from 4378 to give 4356, which incidentally is a perfect square (662). Add this to 4378 and you get 8734 - the reverse of the original number! (GuyBarry)
4379: Harley manuscript 4379 is part of Froissart's Chronicles and dates to the early 1470s. (Big Martin)
4380: Annalisa Dias's play 4380 Nights had its world premiere in early 2018 at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia. It concerns Malik Djamal Ahmad Essaid, who had been held for 12 years (or 4380 days) without charge by the United States government at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. (GuyBarry)
4381: The Sencor SMG4381 is a meat grinder. (Big Martin)
4382: The album Movie Greats of the 60s, recorded by Connie Francis, was released in July 1966 as MGM Records 12" Album E-4382 (or SE-4382 in stereo). (GuyBarry)
4383: Product Look Up code 4383 is the Minneola Tangelo. (Big Martin)
4384: 4384 is the 4th elementary symmetric function of {2,4,6,8,10}, which means the sum of all possible products of four of the five numbers:
2x4x6x8 + 2x4x6x10 + 2x4x8x10 + 2x6x8x10 + 4x6x8x10 = 4384
(GuyBarry)
4385: It has been estimated that the comet Hale-Bopp will be visible from Earth again in 4385 AD. (Big Martin)
4386: Runtococha is a lake in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru located in the Ancash Region, AsunciĆ³n Province, Chacas District, situated at a height of 4386 metres. (GuyBarry)
4387: Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway 4387 is a streetcar manufactured in 1918 and now at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. (Big Martin)
4388: NGC 4388 is an active spiral galaxy located in the Virgo Cluster. NGC 4388 is also considered to be one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster due to its luminous nucleus. (Strawberry)
4389: The B4389 is a south-to-north route crossing the Montgomeryshire hills west of the River Severn, from Aberbechan to Mathrafal. (GuyBarry)
4390: Camera 4390 on the M25 is on the clockwise side, coming up the slope towards Junction 6 for Godstone, Westerham and Caterham. (tetsabb)
4391: Did you know that Jake Burton Carpenter, founder of Burton Snowboards, perfected snowboard design in his garage in Manchester? Needless to say, that's Manchester, Vermont - population 4391 in 2010. (GuyBarry)
4392: Raatti stadium in Oulu, Finland holds 4392 people. (Big Martin)
4393: The annual 4393 Awards are voted on by readers of local newspapers in Vermont — Stowe Reporter, News & Citizen and Waterbury Record — who nominate their favourite people, places and services. "4393" corresponds to the elevation in feet of Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak and home to Stowe Mountain Resort (although Wikipedia puts it at 4395 feet). (GuyBarry)
4394: National Open Garden Scheme number 4394 is Offham House in Lewes, East Sussex. (Big Martin)
4395: Wahoo is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas, said to taste similar to mackerel. Total landings of wahoo for the State of Maryland from 1990 to 2000 totalled 4395 pounds. (GuyBarry)
4396: Ship reference T-AK-4396 is the MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher, a U.S. Military Sealift Command container vessel. (Big Martin)
4397: The Kingston Whig-Standard is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, with International Standard Serial Number 1197-4397. (GuyBarry)
4398: King Cole 4398 is a knitting pattern for a lady's cardigan or sweater. (Big Martin)
4399: In the first elections to the Israeli Knesset on January 25, 1949, the Yemenite Association won 4399 votes and a single seat. It crossed the electoral threshold by just 53 votes. (GuyBarry)
4400: The 4400 was a CBS TV series that ran from 2004 to 2007. (Big Martin)

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