Saturday, July 22, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 4801-4900

4801: Flights departing from Key West International Airport in Florida often have weight restrictions because the airport's runway is only 4801 feet long. (GuyBarry)
4802: Human gene 4802 is involved in protein coding. (Big Martin)
4803: According to a report in August 2018, of the 4803 people who had then been surrendered by the UK to other EU countries under the European Arrest Warrant, more than half (2499) were extradited to Poland. (GuyBarry)
4804: Stromness Golf Club in the Orkneys is 4,804 yards long in total. (Big Martin)
4805: The deadliest accident in aviation history was the collision on March 27 1977 between two Boeing 747 passenger jets, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife. 583 people were killed. (GuyBarry)
4806: The Landmark Trust property 4806 is Astley Castle at Nuneaton. Rebuilt following a disastrous fire in 1978, it offer 8 bed accommodation with a mix of the ancient and new. (Big Martin)
4807: After Wiltshire Council removed speed cameras in 2010, a community group called Community Speed Watch caught 4807 drivers breaking the speed limit. Only nine received fines. (GuyBarry)
4808: The Bruel and Kjaer Type 4808 is a permanent magnet vibration exciter. (Big Martin)
4809: There are 4809 ways of placing 4 labelled balls into 4 unlabelled but 7-coloured boxes; or equivalently, there are 4809 ways of putting 4 labelled balls into a set of 4 bags and then putting the bags into 7 labelled boxes. (GuyBarry)
4810: The Montblanc 4810 collection of wristwatches takes its name from the height of Mont Blanc (approximately 4808.7 m above sea level). (Olinguito)
4811: In January of this year, Shashi Swann of Oakamoor, Staffordshire was convicted of stealing £4811 from people booking her caravan in Porthmadog, by taking deposits for bookings and then cancelling for various reasons. She was sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months. (GuyBarry)
4812: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species entry 4812 is for Chrysochloris visagiei, Visagie's Golden Mole. (Big Martin)
4813: In 2017 Austria accepted 23,320 refugee applicants, or one for every 361 of its population; Britain accepted 13,645, or one for every 4813 of its population. (Source: Kenya's Daily Nation.) (GuyBarry)
4814: The 4814 Trust is a grant making charity. (Big Martin)
4815: 4815 phones, phone parts or phone accessories were seized from South Carolina prison inmates in the year to June 30 2018. (GuyBarry)
4816: It was reported in January 2018 that the Redcliffe Wharf development in Bristol would include 4,816 square metres of office space. (Big Martin)
4817: This sequence is a bit like the Fibonacci sequence. Start with two 1's, then each number is equal to 8 times the previous number plus the number before that: 1, 1, 9, 73, 593, 4817, ... . (GuyBarry)
4818: The LNER V2 locomotive originally numbered 4818 bore the name St Peter's School York AD627. (Big Martin)
4819: Elections are rarely won by a single vote, but a 2001 study by US economists Casey B. Mulligan and Charles G. Hunter found a handful of examples. One was a 1970 state House race in Missouri in which the victor won 4819 votes to the loser's 4818 votes. (GuyBarry)
4820: Remington produce a cordless rechargeable women's razor. Its model number is 4820. The razor is cordless and rechargeable, rather than the women, I presume. (tetsabb)
4821: In 2018 Regina Porten sold her townhouse in Palm Beach, Florida — with 4821 square feet of living space, inside and out — for $3.495 million. (GuyBarry)
4822: The Hobart 4822 is a meat mincer. (Big Martin)
4823: In July 2018, the UK Government estimated that Scotland had 4823 fishers - almost half the number in the UK. (GuyBarry)
4824: RFC 4824, or the Semaphore Flag Signaling System, was a 2007 April Fool's humorous project for carrying internet protocol by a semaphore system. (Big Martin)
4825: 4825 = 36 + 46. (GuyBarry)
4826: The Black Eye Galaxy, also known as NGC 4826, is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. (Ed.)
4827: 9 Tevet 4827 was the date in the Jewish calendar of the 1066 Granada massacre. It took place on 30 December 1066 when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, in the Taifa of Granada, crucified the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred much of the Jewish population of the city. (GuyBarry)
4828: Here is footage on YouTube of a train 4,828 metres long running in the USA. (Big Martin)
4829: Leg 2 of the Okeanos Explorer expedition 2015 Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi captured amazing images of deep sea creatures, some never-before-seen species, in unexplored areas in the remote deep Pacific. The expedition explored deep water in and around Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Eighteen remotely operated vehicle dives were involved, some as deep as 4829 metres. (GuyBarry)
4830: Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake, has a surface area of 4,830 square miles, making it the world's 16th largest lake by surface area. Due to its depth, however, it's the 6th largest lake by volume. (Big Martin)
4831: The number of uninsured vehicles seized in Wales (excluding Gwent) went up by more than 50% in three years - from 3137 in 2013 to 4831 in 2016. (GuyBarry)
4832: The East Anglian Film Archive catalogue number 4832 is a 1975 film about Mersea Island. (Big Martin)
4833: The character of Bethany Platt first appeared as a newborn baby in episode 4833 of Coronation Street, broadcast on 4 June 2000. (GuyBarry)
4834: Healthcare Logistics item 4834 is a medication warming cabinet. (Big Martin)
4835: In the decade from 1994 to 2004, 4835 people died while waiting for an organ transplant. (GuyBarry)
4836: According to a BBC News article on the "£5K commuter club" from August 2017, railway season tickets from Chichester to London were set to rise from £4,836 to £5,010 per annum. (Big Martin)
4837: As of August 2017, the longest gap between two appearances for the same Premier League team was 4837 days, set by Wayne Rooney for Everton after spending 13 years at Manchester United. (GuyBarry)
4838: National Portrait Gallery item NPG4838 is a patinated lead bust of Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) and is on display in the Smoking Room at Beningbrough Hall near York. (Big Martin)
4839: (4839 x 104839) + 1 is prime. If you wrote this number out in full, it would be 4839000...0001 with 4838 zeroes. Such numbers are sometimes known as generalized Cullen primes. (GuyBarry)
4840: An acre is 4,840 square yards. (Big Martin)
4841: The red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas), commonly known as the "monkey frog" for its jumping abilities, has ID number 4841 on the Tree of Life web project. (GuyBarry)
4842: Lego set 4842 is a Hogwarts Castle released in 2010. (Big Martin)
4843: The US state of Illinois has recently passed House Bill 4843, which protects elephants and rhinos from poaching and wildlife trafficking. (GuyBarry)
4844: The post code for Regau, a municipality in Austria, is 4844. (Strawberry)
4845: 4845 is the binomial coefficient referred to as "20 choose 4" or "20C4". That means that there are 4845 ways of choosing four objects out of 20, without regard to the order in which they're chosen. It can be calculated as (20 x 19 x 18 x 17)/(1 x 2 x 3 x 4), or read off Pascal's triangle. (GuyBarry)
4846: Make Me A Cocktail recipe 4846 is for a Snowball. (Big Martin)
4847: The number of "incidents at height" at prisons in England and Wales - where prisoners climbed on netting, over bars or on the roof - rose by 27% from 3825 in 2016/17 to 4847 in 2017/18. (GuyBarry)
4848: The Space Shuttle Atlantis completed 4,848 orbits of the Earth. (Big Martin)
4849: 48/49 is the debut album from German hardcore punk band Beatsteaks, released in November 1996. (GuyBarry)
4850: Myford Lathes have a 3.5" gauge live-steam locomotive for sale at £4,850. (Big Martin)
4851: In Richard K. Morgan's 2002 science fiction novel Altered Carbon, Rawling 4851 is a virus that corrupts digital information. (GuyBarry)
4852: In 2015/16, the annual rail passenger usage for Glan Conwy railway station, North Wales, was 4,852. (Strawberry)
4853: According to Business Insider, the virtual private network NordVPN has 4853 servers in 62 countries around the world. (GuyBarry)
4854: Lladro figure 4854 is Don Quixote standing up. (Big Martin)
4855: The H4855 Personal Role Radio is a small UHF transmitter-receiver issued to the British Armed Forces. (GuyBarry)
4856: Natgen café/health food shop is at 690, Ramirez de Velasco, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The phone number is 4856-8885. (Strawberry)
4857: 4857 is a 2008 Turkish documentary film about workers in the Tuzla shipyards. (GuyBarry)
4858: For Aus $4,991,000 you could buy Seven Canes Farm with 12 acres of paw paws if you want, in Mourilyan, Queensland, 4858,according to www.domain.com.au. (tetsabb)
4859: Witold's Report was the first comprehensive record of a Holocaust death camp to be obtained by the Allies. It was written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki, a soldier in the Polish Army and a secret agent of the Polish resistance, who entered and escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp. His inmate number was 4859. (GuyBarry)
4860: The mountain of Gistola (or Gestola) in the Greater Caucasus in Georgia is 4,860 metres high. (Big Martin)
4861: 1/9 + 2/8 + 3/7 + 4/6 + 5/5 + 6/4 + 7/3 + 8/2 + 9/1 = 4861/252. (GuyBarry)
4862: Aircraft Materials AMS4862 is Manganese Bronze. (Big Martin)
4863: A 1971 Lamborghini Miura, formerly owned by Rod Stewart and expected to fetch £1.2-1.4 million, was offered for auction in September 2018 at RM Sotheby's in central London. Its chassis number is 4863. (GuyBarry)
4864: Asteroid 4864 was renamed Nimoy in honour of the late Star Trek actor. (Big Martin)
4865: The population of Thatcher, Arizona at the 2010 census was 4865. (GuyBarry)
4866: According to a The Wall Street Journal article, 4,866 people drowned in the bath at home in Japan in 2014; a 70% increase in 10 years. (Big Martin)
4867: The LEGO Ninjago City set has 4867 pieces - the third largest LEGO model to date. (GuyBarry)
4868: Number 4868KEW in the Spear and Jackson Kew Gardens Collection is a pair of "Razorsharp Wishbone Handle Hand Shears". (Big Martin)
4869: The premise of the Japanese manga series Case Closed is that the detective Jimmy Kudo is forced to ingest the experimental poison APTX-4869, which is supposed to kill him. Instead it shrinks him into the form of a young child. (GuyBarry)
4870: The postcode for Cairns in Queensland is 4870. (Big Martin)
4871: The number of new ₹500 fake notes in India jumped from 199 in 2016-17 to 9892 in 2017-18, an increase of 4871%. (GuyBarry)
4872: The Mount Batten north west slipway in Plymouth is at grid reference SX 4872 5337. (Big Martin)
4873: 4873 is the 29th star number, which means that 4873 dots can be arranged in the shape of a six-pointed star with 29 dots along each point (as in the diagram). (GuyBarry)
4874: LibriVox author 4874 is Arthur Ransome, famous for Swallows and Amazons. (Big Martin)
4875: The capture of point 4875, a strategically important peak located in the Mushkoh Valley in Kashmir, took place under Captain Vikram Batra during the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. (GuyBarry)
4876: In 1851 the population of Swindon was only 4,876. (Big Martin)
4877: At the 2011 census, there were 4877 people in the Gloucester Shire local government district of New South Wales, Australia. It was abolished in 2016. (Ed.)
4878: Jatibarang No. 9 is a Mallet 0-4-4-0 steam locomotive built for a sugar mill in Java. It was constructed by Jung in Germany in 1930 and was their works number 4878. (Big Martin)
4879: 4879 is a Kaprekar number, which means that its square can be split into two parts that sum to the original number: 48792 = 23804641; 238 + 04641 = 4879. (GuyBarry)
4880: Revell plastic kit RV4880 is of the USS Enterprise from the Star Trek TV series. (Big Martin)
4881: The oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan Island, built around 1785, is the Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, at 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan. (GuyBarry)
4882: Gulf News reported that 4,882 Sharjah students had set a record for creating the largest human image of a boat. (Big Martin)
4883: In a 2015 study of the breadth of vocabulary used by popular songwriters, Bob Dylan came in fifth with 4883 words. He was beaten by Eminem, Jay-Z, 2Pac and Kanye West. (GuyBarry)
4884: 4884 Northwest Africa is a lunar meteorite. (Big Martin)
4885: The stations broadcasting on exactly 4885 kHz include the Korean station Echo of Hope-VOH, and R. Clube do Para in Portuguese. (GuyBarry)
4886: Columbia 45 rpm record DB 4886 was It'll Be Me by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, released in August 1962. (Big Martin)
4887: In February 2018, it was reported that a total of 4887 people from 1419 families had been evacuated to temporary relief centres throughout the Malaysian state of Sarawak, due to the worsening floods. (GuyBarry)
4888: Shipbucket drawing 4888 is of a Roman trireme. (Big Martin)
4889: NGC 4889 is the largest and the most massive galaxy easily visible to Earth. (GuyBarry)
4890: The Pacific Room in the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center can seat 4,890 people. (Big Martin)
4891: The difference of two squares rule can be used to simplify many everyday calculations. Here's one:
67 x 73 = (70 - 3) x (70 + 3) = 702 - 32 = 4900 - 9 = 4891
(GuyBarry)
4892: University of Glasgow thesis 4892 is on The Compositiones Medicamentorum of Scribonius Largus. (Big Martin)
4893: The distance between Mozambique and Portugal is 4893 miles. (GuyBarry)
4894: An article in the Belfast Telegraph revealed that 4,894 people were fined for driving in bus lanes in that city in the first three months of 2017. (Big Martin)
4895: The wrought-iron Hares Hill Road bridge over French Creek in East Pikeland, Pennsylvania, which recently reopened after rehabilitation work, carries an average of 4895 vehicles a day. It is the only known surviving example of Thomas William Moseley's patented "Wrought Iron Lattice Girder Bridge". (GuyBarry)
4896: Noar Linhas Aeras flight 4896 was a passenger flight that crashed in Boa Viagem, Brazil on 13 July 2011. (Big Martin)
4897: The highest point in Antarctica is Vinson Massif at 4897 metres. (GuyBarry)
4898: No. 4898 on the CABI Invasive Species Compendium is Ammophila arenaria or Marram Grass. (Big Martin)
4899: Apple's iMac Pro went on sale last December starting at £4899. (GuyBarry)
4900: The GWR 4900 or Hall Class was built from 1928 to 1943 and 11 still survive on various preserved railways. (Big Martin)

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