Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 5501-5600

5501: Engine 5501 is stationed about 7 miles west of Boulder, Colorado, in the Sugarloaf Fire Protection District. (GuyBarry)
5502: Trusted Psychics pin number 5502 is Heather. (Big Martin)
5503: The Ensoniq Mirage, one of the earliest affordable sampler-synths, contains the Ensoniq Digital Oscillator Chip (Ensoniq ES5503 DOC). (GuyBarry)
5504: In 1955, the urban population of Bhutan was only 5,504. Since then it has increased to over 330,000. (Big Martin)
5505: The surface temperature of the Sun is approximately 5505 °C. (GuyBarry)
5506: Here is a document on testing polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons by HPLC, Method 5506. (Big Martin)
5507: Carhuachuco, an Andean mountain in Peru, is about 5507 metres high. (Olinguito)
5508: Year one of the Byzantine calendar ran from September 1, 5509 BC, to August 31, 5508 BC. (GuyBarry)
5509: The Schuco 5509 Elektro Razzia is a battery operated toy car made in West Germany in the 1960s. (Big Martin)
5510: Compared to other mobile phones of its generation, the Nokia 5510 is unusual in that it has an almost complete QWERTY keyboard, rather than the conventional telephone keypad. It was released in December 2001. (GuyBarry)
5511: Union Pacific locomotive 5511 is 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" type, built in 1923 and now stored at UP's Cheyenne, Wyoming roundhouse. (Big Martin)
5512: The 1887 Ilkeston by-election was won by the Liberal candidate Sir Balthazar Walter Foster with 5512 votes. (GuyBarry)
5513: This Rolex Submariner 5513 watch from the 1960s sold for £8,950. (Big Martin)
5514: According to evidence that Facebook submitted to Congress, and later released publicly, Russian anti-immigrant adverts were placed in October 2015 targeting the UK, as well as Germany and France. These amounted to 5514.85 roubles (around £66). (GuyBarry)
5515: The coordinates for the Ballarat Tramway Museum are 37.5515 degrees South and 143.8204 degrees East. (Big Martin)
5516: Euthanasia accounted for 5516 deaths in the Netherlands in 2015, or 3.9% of all deaths nationwide. (GuyBarry)
5517: The Valley Loop Trail in Colorado begins at an elevation of 5,517 feet. (Big Martin)
5518: After being involved in a serious collision, British Rail Class 31 diesel locomotive D5518 was rebuilt in September 1967 as a standard locomotive, with indicator boxes, and blue star coupling code. (GuyBarry)
5519: Hansa 5519 is a 14 cm cuddly toy meerkat baby. (Big Martin)
5520: The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is an International Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats and Nilgiri Hills ranges of South India, with an area of 5520 square kilometres. Over the last two weeks, the area has become adversely affected by hoarfrost. (GuyBarry)
5521: Ex-GWR locomotive 5521 is a 2-6-2 tank engine built in 1927. Here is a write up of its running in Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in 2007 - 2009. (Big Martin)
5522: 5522 has vertical symmetry when viewed in a seven-segment calculator display. (GuyBarry)
5523: In a Financial Times article from 2017, it is claimed that the expected hidden parental contribution on top of the student loan is £5,523 a year. (Big Martin)
5524: The population of Crown Point, Indiana grew by 5524 between 1970 and 1980. The increase in the black population was only six. (GuyBarry)
5525: The Slash is a 20 feet wide clearing that stretches for 5,525 miles along the US/Canadian border. (Big Martin)
5526: The ever-reliable North American Moth Photographers' Group provide this photo of Hypsopygia intermedialis, or the red-shawled moth, whose Hodges number is 5526. (GuyBarry)
5527: Mindat mineral 5527 is selenite - a clear crystalline form of gypsum. (Big Martin)
5528: The phone number for the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain is 020 7482 5528. (GuyBarry)
5529: Here is YouTube footage of police seizing 5,529 kilos of cocaine on a ship. (Big Martin)
5530: The drainage basin of Russia's Tulva River covers 5530 square kilometres. (GuyBarry)
5531: In 2018 the Ghana National Fire Service recorded 5,531 fires. (Big Martin)
5532: The former Australian cricketer Roger Brown bowled 5532 balls during his first-class career. (GuyBarry)
5533: Issue 5533 of Science from 2001 carried an article on the "Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene". (Big Martin)
5534: In 2018 there were 5534 homeless people in Japan. (GuyBarry)
5535: RCI destination #5535 is the Canalboat Club at Union Wharf, Market Harborough. (Big Martin)
5536: 5536 is a Tetranacci number. The Tetranacci sequence is similar to the Fibonacci sequence, but each term after the first four is the sum of the preceding four terms. If the first four terms are taken as 0, 0, 0, 1, then the sequence starts as follows: 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 29, 56, 108, 208, 401, 773, 1490, 2872, 5536, ... (GuyBarry)
5537: The 5537 Gallery is an online gallery of artwork by Fernando Holguin Cereceres. (Big Martin)
5538: Elk Knob is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, north of the community of Meat Camp (I swear I have not made those names up). Its elevation reaches 5538 feet. (GuyBarry)
5539: Ex-GWR 2-6-2 locomotive 5539 is one of the last locomotives to be sold from Woodham's scrap yard in Barry and is slowly being restored for the Llangollen Railway. (Big Martin)
5540: The highest pass on the ancient caravan route between Leh in Ladakh, India and Yarkand in the Tarim Basin, China, is the 5540-metre-high Karakoram Pass. (GuyBarry)
5541: 5541 is another ex-GWR 2-6-2 tank locomotive still in operation; on the Dean Forest Railway this time. (Big Martin)
5542: The population of New Gloucester, Maine in 2010 was 5542. It is home to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the last active Shaker community in the US, with three members as of 2021. (GuyBarry)
5543: The vehicle carrying the UK registration number BF 5543 is a Foden agricultural steam tractor built in 1903. (Big Martin)
5544: The phone number for the YoungMinds Parents Helpline is 0808 802 5544. YoungMinds is a charity fighting for children's and young people's mental health. (GuyBarry)
5545: The Zetor 5545 tractor was manufactured in Brno between 1968 and 1972. (Big Martin)
5546: Emily Brothers, the first openly transgender candidate to stand for the Labour party in a general election, polled 5546 votes in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in 2015. (GuyBarry)
5547: War memorial 5547 on the IWM list is at Peasenhall in Suffolk. (Big Martin)
5548: In February 2017, the author and public speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates was paid $41,500 for giving a speech to 5548 people at the Matthew Knight Arena, University of Oregon. There were complaints because it ended 35 minutes early. (GuyBarry)
5549: In 2017, 5,549 of the total population of Crosby in Merseyside were within the 20 -29 age range. (Big Martin)
5550: "The Fifty-Five Fifty in Hollywood, CA features the finest luxury apartment residences with iconic views and sophisticated details. Marvel at your modern, eye-catching oasis that offers stunning layouts and premium finishes." Naturally enough at 5550 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. (GuyBarry)
5551: The LMS-Patriot Project is a "new build" project to build a steam locomotive to be numbered 5551 and named The Unknown Warrior. (Big Martin)
5552: There are 5552 3's among the digits of all five-digit primes. (GuyBarry)
5553: 5553 is another of the ex-GWR 4575 class "small prairie" tank locomotives to have survived to run on heritage railways. (Big Martin)
5554: 5554 is the postcode of Jerusalem, South Australia. In 1874, the local newspaper stated that "the name is not considered suitable to the place, and generally strikes the ear of a stranger as somewhat ridiculous". (GuyBarry)
5555: Interstella 5555 is a Japanese-French anime film. (Big Martin)
5556: The House at 5556 Flushing Road in Flushing, Michigan was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. (GuyBarry)
5557: The Ural-5557 is a low-profile tyre version of the Russian built Ural-4320 truck. (Big Martin)
5558: 5558 is the smallest number such that the product of its digits is 1000 (i.e. 5 x 5 x 5 x 8 = 1000). (GuyBarry)
5559: The Italian Navy's Gaeta class minehunter Viareggio bears the pennant number M5559. (Big Martin)
5560: In January 2019, a petition was submitted opposing plans for 5560 new homes around Penrith in Cumbria. (GuyBarry)
5561: Here is a commentary entitled Mahabharata War Date: Rebuttal to claim of 5561 BCE. (Big Martin)
5562: There was a fourfold increase in cases of measles across Europe during 2017, with more than 21,000 cases and 35 deaths. The worst affected country was Romania with 5562. (GuyBarry)
5563: The phone number of the Engine Inn in Walbottle near Newcastle upon Tyne is 0191 267 5563. (Big Martin)
5564: 5020 and 5564 are a pair of amicable numbers. This means that the sum of the proper divisors of 5020 is 5564, and the sum of the proper divisors of 5564 is 5020. ("Proper divisors" are factors other than the number itself, but including 1.)
1 + 2 + 4 + 5 + 10 + 20 + 251 + 502 + 1004 + 1255 + 2510 = 5564
1 + 2 + 4 + 13 + 26 + 52 + 107 + 214 + 428 + 1391 + 2782 = 5020
(GuyBarry)
5565: The developmental code of the drug Microgabalin was DS-5565. (Big Martin)
5566: 5566 was the name of a Taiwanese boy band which disbanded in 2008. (GuyBarry)
5567: In 2019 there were 5567 centenarians in Turkey. (Ed.)
5568: A tetraquark, in particle physics, is an exotic meson composed of four valence quarks. In February 2016 evidence was reported of a narrow tetraquark candidate, named X(5568). (GuyBarry)
5569: Find A Grave memorial 5569 is that of native American chief Powhatan - the father of Pocahontas. (Big Martin)
5570: An astounding 3,368,000 voters - or 2.3% of the electorate - had their electoral registration cancelled in Brazil's elections in October 2018 because they hadn't gone to the Electoral Court and registered their fingerprints. 2793 of the country's 5570 municipalities had moved to compulsory biometric identification for the election, but the change wasn't communicated effectively in some areas. Some people didn't find out until they turned up at the polls to vote. (GuyBarry)
5571: B-5571 is a Boeing 737-86N aircraft belonging to OKAir. (Big Martin)
5572: 5572 = 133 + 153. (GuyBarry)
5573: The Clinton Falls Bridge in Minnesota is bridge number L-5573 on the US National Register of Historic Places. (Big Martin)
5574: The Canadian indie-pop artist Lana Winterhalt raised $5574 from a Kickstarter campaign to finish her album "If & When" in 2018. (GuyBarry)
5575: SOS phones 5575A1 and B1 are on opposite sides of the Bell Common Tunnel on the M25 in Essex. There appears to be an SOS phone about every 100metres in that tunnel, which is a much higher frequency than other parts of the motorway network. (tetsabb)
5576: Ex-Air Ministry fuel oil tank wagon A 5576 is currently awaiting restoration at the Ribble Steam Railway. (Big Martin)
5577: This Village People Construction Worker Costume (currently unavailable) is indexed struts-5577 on Amazon Fashion. (GuyBarry)
5578: According to Distance24 it's 5,578 kilometres between London and New York. (Big Martin)
5579: There are 5579 words in the King James version of the Book of Ecclesiastes. (GuyBarry)
5580: Capitol Records 45 rpm single number 5580 is Peter Sellers' "Richard III" style version of A Hard Day's Night. (Big Martin)
5581: 5581 patients from six emergency departments across Canada took part in a recent study led by Dr Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, an emergency physician and scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and associate professor at the University of Ottawa, to determine how long people need to be monitored after fainting. (GuyBarry)
5582: Corporal PS/5582 Arthur Coningsby Saville served in the 20th battalion on the Royal Fusiliers before being commissioned towards the end of WW1. (Big Martin)
5583: In April 2012, in the Ukrainian city of Drohobych, 5583 people participated in the largest ever haiyvka or Easter folk dance, forming a three-kilometre-long Curvy Dance chain from the Church of St. Yur to Shpyhlir's architectural monument. (GuyBarry)
5584: 5584 was the Hebrew equivalent year for 1823. (Awitt)
5585: In California, a 5585 hold is a 72-hour involuntary hold used to place a person under the age of 18 in an inpatient hospital setting for psychiatric evaluation and treatment. The name comes from the relevant section of the Welfare and Institutions Code under California State Law. (GuyBarry)
5586: The Royal Doulton figure of the year for 2013 was Catherine - catalogue number HN5586. (Big Martin)
5587: A study by the Yugoslav Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1986 found that, from 1948 to 1981, only 5587 people emigrated from Albania to Kosovo. This was in sharp contrast with claims of 260,000 cases of "illegal immigration" made by the Serbian nationalist opposition at the time. (GuyBarry)
5588: Sunderlands property listing 5588 is Pant-Y-Cae: a rather nice looking house near Hay-on-Wye. (Big Martin)
5589: Bahij Chancey wanted to see a bike counter installed on the Manhattan Bridge over the East River in New York. So, on 23rd May 2016, he sat at one end of the bridge collecting signatures, and counted everyone who cycled over between 6.30am and 8pm - a total of 5589 cyclists. (GuyBarry)
5590: In 2016, 5,590 activities were organised in the UK for Holocaust Memorial Day. (Big Martin)
5591: In 2006 there were 5591 telephone exchanges in the UK. (GuyBarry)
5592: Drainage Superstore catalogue number B5592 is an underground drainpipe rodding point. (Big Martin)
5593: The waves of the Japanese earthquake of 1854 were recorded 5593 miles away in San Diego. (GuyBarry)
5594: Transport Focus are an association for British passengers. Their address is: FREEPOST RTEH-XAGE-BYKZ, PO Box 5594, Southend On Sea, SS1 9PZ. (Strawberry)
5595: Gallery 5595 is in Edinburgh. (Big Martin)
5596: 55964 = 980642753126656. The first ten digits of this number are all different. (GuyBarry)
5597: Easylife Group product 5597 is a "glowing solar owl". It is marketed as "extremely lifelike" - my experience of owls is not enormous, but I've never seen one that glows in the dark in real life. (Big Martin)
5598: The U.S. Navy balloon A-5598 was an American naval free balloon which went off-course in 1920. Its crew of three were recorded missing for several weeks (GuyBarry)
5599: Wooden Model Ship Kit product 5599 is a cast brass nude figurehead. (Big Martin)
5600: A late 2017 report by the Soufan Center put the figure for returned ISIS fighters at 5600 from 33 different countries. It revealed that on average 20 to 30 per cent of those from Europe are already back. In the UK, Sweden and Denmark, an estimated 50 per cent have already returned. (GuyBarry)

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