Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 7101-7200

7101: Avian Vocalizations Centre recording AV 7101 is of the African Reed-warbler, Acrocephalus baeticatus. (Big Martin)
7102: Type 7102 is a Chinese minesweeper developed for the People's Liberation Army Navy, which was retired in the early 2010s. (Brock)
7103: Grumman Albatross flying boat number 7103 of the Portuguese air force sank on November 22 1958 whilst attempting to pick up a sick crewman from a ship. (Big Martin)
7104: 7104 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 222. (Brock)
7105: Roud Folksong No. 7105 is Shepherds rejoice, lift up your eyes. (Big Martin)
7106: Proclamation 7106 by US President Bill Clinton, dated 17 June 1998, proclaimed Sunday 21 June 1998 as Father's Day. (And I thought it happened automatically every year!) (Brock)
7107: Conventionally, there are supposed to be 7,107 islands in the Philippines however, the latest research puts the number as actually somewhere around 7,640. (Big Martin)
7108: 7108 is the code on this site for gold. (Awitt)
7109: Sentinel steam locomotive 7109 was built in Shrewsbury in 1927 and is now at the Somerset & Dorset Railway at Midsomer Norton. (Big Martin)
7110: 7110 = 133 + 173. (Brock)
7111: The Reson Seabat 7111 is a multibeam echo sounder for mounting on ships. (Big Martin)
7112: When the mountaineers Ralf Dujmovits and Nancy Hansen entered the hypoxia chamber at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne in May 2018, they were effectively climbing one of the highest peaks of their careers. After a two-week acclimatisation, they spent 16 days breathing air thinner than at Everest base camp - including four days at the equivalent of 7112 metres. (Brock)
7113: Wellcome Collection MS.7113 is Lady Ann Fanshawe's Recipe Book from the late C17th. (Big Martin)
7114: BS 7114 is the British Standard relating to fireworks. (Brock)
7115: The current USS Enterprise is a recruit barracks building on the Great Lakes and is also known as BLDG 7115. (Big Martin)
7116: You can contact Ian Paisley MP at the House of Commons on 020 7219 7116. (Brock)
7117: ISO 7117 covers the measurement method for determining the maximum speed of motorcycles. (Big Martin)
7118: There were 7118 reports of cryptocurrency fraud in the UK in the first nine months of 2021, resulting in a total loss of more than £146 million. (Brock)
7119: Locomotive 47279 was originally numbered as 7119 when supplied to LMS in 1924. It is now on static display at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway pending an overhaul. (Big Martin)
7120: The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was originally introduced in the US Congress as H.B. 7120 on June 8 2020, but was blocked in the Senate. It was reintroduced in 2021 but ran into deadlock. (Brock)
7121: The New Zealand Permanent Air Force Bristol F.2B Fighter registration 7121 was written off and the pilot killed due to an accident during bombing training on February 25th 1936. (Big Martin)
7122: 7122 of the first 10,000 primes do not contain the digit 0. (Brock)
7123: SHOM chart 7123 covers the area around Ile Molène off the west coast of Brittany. (Big Martin)
7124: Rishi Sunak entered Parliament in 2015, taking over William Hague's old seat of Richmond in Yorkshire. The Labour candidate at that election was Mike Hill, who came third with 7124 votes. (Brock)
7125: This meme maintains that if you are 1 in a million, then there are 7,125 people like you. (Big Martin)
7126: The Urban Dictionary defines 7126 as "Tiny Raskal Gang", which is further defined as "A Street Gang made up of Cambodians in California who wear the colors Black, Gray, Sliver [sic] and Blue". (Brock)
7127: Here is a photograph of preserved Reading bus number 47, bearing the registration RD 7127. (Big Martin)
7128: This year, 9th October was October Big Day on the "eBird" site. On October Big Day 2020, more than 32,000 participants submitted 80,400 checklists with 7128 species. (Brock)
7129: The road bridge at Grid Reference ST 7129 8760 is a grade II listed building, having been completed in circa 1843 to cross Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway in the parish of Wickwar. (Big Martin)
7130: Key 7130 into the Topsy-Turvy Calculator, hit the button at top right, and you get the French word "oeil", or "eye". (Brock)
7131: 7131 is the product code for this foil container. (Awitt)
7132: 7132 is an upmarket hotel in Vals, Switzerland. (Brock)
7133: The Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin, China is 7,133 metres long in total. (Big Martin)
7134: This photo of Mount Gauri Shankar (elevation 7134 metres), on the border between Nepal and China, shows how dramatically the snowline has receded due to climate change. (Brock)
7135: The Science Photo Library image C042/7135 is Wreck of the White Ship 1120, a colour plate from Pictures of English History published c1850. (Big Martin)
7136: The Ukrainian Institute of World Policy held a survey at the end of 2015 among the residents of the eight largest European countries by population (including the UK). The survey involved 7136 people aged 16 to 54 years, and the main research question was: "What do you associate with Ukraine?" The three most popular answers were "war" (46%), "Russia" (18%) and "poverty" (9%). (Brock)
7137: Rapido make an OO gauge model of a Great Eastern Railway C53 class tram locomotive, but in post-grouping livery, when it was LNER Class J70 number 7137. (Big Martin)
7138: At the start of 2021, the Bonner family from Bellshill, North Lanarkshire embarked on a challenge to collectively walk 7138 miles over the course of the year to raise funds for the food charity Mary's Meals - the same distance as from Bellshill to Blantyre in Malawi. (Brock)
7139: According to Ethnologue there are 7,139 languages spoken in the world today. (Big Martin)
7140: 7140 is a tetrahedral number, as well as a triangular number and a pronic number. (Tetrahedral: number of spheres in a tetrahedron, or triangular pyramid, with 34 spheres per edge. Triangular: number of dots in an equilateral triangle with 119 dots per side. Pronic (or oblong): number of dots in an 84x85 rectangle.) (Brock)
7141: A 7,141 sq ft space is available at unit 25 in Broadwalk Shopping Centre in Knowle, Bristol, just across the road from an ex-colleague of mine. (Big Martin)
7142: NGC 7142 is an open cluster about 6200 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus, and (according to Wikipedia) "an infrequent topic of research". Its age has been estimated at between 3 x 109 and 6 x 109 years. (Brock)
7143: In October of this year, Shima City in Japan issued an evacuation order to 7,143 people due to a forecast of extremely heavy rain hitting the area. (Big Martin)
7144: Article number m-7144 in the Encyclopedia of Alabama is on the subject of Wikipedia. It gets an entry because its main founder Jimmy Wales comes from Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. (Brock)
7145: In August this year 7,145 people were involved in fighting wildfires in Russia. (Big Martin)
7146: The Nigerian federal government is distributing funds to 7146 farmers in Zamfara state who were affected by last year's floods. (Brock)
7147: Freddie and the Dreamers' record You Were Made For Me was released as Columbia DB 7147 in 1963. (Big Martin)
7148: Grabovoi numbers are supposedly "radionic signatures to heal various health ailments", developed by the Russian psychic Grigori Grabovoi. According to this video, 519 7148 is the code for "everything is possible". (I watched it for three minutes before giving up!) (Brock)
7149: Former Bristol Lodekka bus 7149 is now used as a cafe at Chain Bridge Honey Farm. (Big Martin)
7150: The remains of Cheddar Man, Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, are believed to date from approximately 7150 BC. (Brock)
7151: Robert Stephenson Hawthorn locomotive 7151 was built for hauling coal trains at a power station and is now at the Avon Valley Railway in Bitton near Bristol. (Big Martin)
7152: Hellas Planitia is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin (or crater) Hellas located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. The basin floor is about 7152 metres deep. (Brock)
7153: Picture number 7153 on Meisterdrucke is a painting of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol by Anthony van Dyck from 1638. (Big Martin)
7154: 7154 is a pseudo-altruistic number, in base 10. Explanation: 7154 has 4 digits, so raise each digit to the power of 4 and sum them, then repeat the process:
74 + 14 + 54 + 44 = 3283 (4 digits)
34 + 24 + 84 + 34 = 4274 (4 digits)
44 + 24 + 74 + 44 = 2929 (4 digits)
24 + 94 + 24 + 94 = 13154 (5 digits)
15 + 35 + 15 + 55 + 45 = 4394 (4 digits)
44 + 34 + 94 + 44 = 7154
and we've arrived back at the start. (Brock)
7155: In 2007 Bristol Zoo had 7,155 animals. (Big Martin)
7156: In April, a new DDR4 overclocking record was set by the MSI OC Team in Taiwan at 7156 MHz. (I don't really understand this but it's all about getting computers to run faster than they're supposed to.) (Brock)
7157: WISE 0734-7157 is a brown dwarf star in the constellation Volans and around 35 light-years away. (Big Martin)
7158: In 2020, Operation Warm and OFBCI (the Ohio Governor's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives) provided 7158 coats and 5004 pairs of shoes to children through 66 organizations located in 38 different counties located throughout Ohio. (Brock)
7159: The Zekari Pass in the Meskheti Range in Georgia is 7,159 feet high. (Big Martin)
7160: Amateur radio traffic in Europe and the Middle East was disrupted between 18:00 and 18:15 UTC on October 22nd 2021, when an AM station in Tashkent made a broadcast on 7160 kHz (exclusively assigned to amateur radio). The exact cause is still being investigated. (Brock)
7161: Order 7161 was the top secret Soviet Defence Committee order of December 16 1944 to intern able bodied Germans in the territories occupied by the Red Army for manual work in the Soviet Union. (Big Martin)
7162: At Northampton General Hospital Trust in September, 7162 patients were waiting for one of 15 standard tests such as an MRI scan, non-obstetric ultrasound or gastroscopy. Of those, 1214 had been waiting for at least six weeks. (Brock)
7163: A pill that's marked TEVA 7163 is tolterodine tartrate, normally prescribed for urinary problems. (Big Martin)
7164: On October 27 2021, Jamie Jackson wrote in the Guardian of the footballer Harry Maguire: "in 7164 minutes of Premier League play since joining in summer 2019 the (supposed) defensive linchpin has the highest error-leading-to-chance tally of Manchester United's outfield players: seven". (Brock)
7165: At the height of the Great Plague in September of 1665, 7,165 people are recorded as dying from it across London in a single week. (Big Martin)
7166: 7166 Kennedy is a stony Nysian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, named after Malcolm Kennedy, late secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow. (Brock)
7167: Hornby product R7167 is a bag of OO gauge track ballast. (Big Martin)
7168: 7168 in binary is 1110000000000. (Brock)
7169: To obtain training from the Bat Conservation Trust ring 020 7820 7169. (Big Martin)
7170: Kish Air Flight 7170, from Kish Island in Iran, crashed on 10 February 2004 while approaching to land at Sharjah International Airport, killing 43 of the 46 occupants. (Brock)
7171: Los Alamos County Airport in Mexico is at an elevation of 7,171 feet. (Big Martin)
7172: A Gulfstream G700 twinjet aircraft set a city-pair speed record on October 23, flying 7172 nautical miles from Houston to Riyadh in 13 hours 40 minutes - its longest flight to date. (Brock)
7173: In 10 months of this year 7,173 fires were tackled by firefighters in Lithuania. (Big Martin)
7174: 7174 Publishing was founded in 2004 by the English writer T.P. Louise and the Australian artist Ashley Wood as a showcase for their own work. (Brock)
7175: Human gene 7175 is translocated promoter region, nuclear basket protein (or TPR for short). (Big Martin)
7176: 7176 is the 35th cake number. Imagine a cube-shaped cake, and 35 planes cutting through it like knives (as in the illustration). You'll get a maximum of 7176 pieces. (Brock)
7177: 07-7177 is the registration of a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III operated by the United States Air Force. (Big Martin)
7178: On September 6th at Worcestershire Magistrates' Court, Jamie McDonagh of Enfield in London admitted stealing cosmetics to the value of £7178 from Sainsbury's in Kidderminster. (Brock)
7179: ASTM D7179-18 is the standard test method for determining geonet breaking force. (Big Martin)
7180: An estimated 7180 people in the United States are expected to die of melanoma in 2021. (Brock)
7181: The Leblanc model 7181 is a contra-alto clarinet, which is pitched one octave lower than a standard clarinet. (Big Martin)
7182: The digits 7182 appear at the start of the decimal expansion of the mathematical constant e: 2.7182818284... (Brock)
7183: The Soviet corvette Brilliant had the unenviable fate of being sunk twice by German attacks in WW2. The first time was at the hands of Ju88 aircraft on May 12th 1942 and, after being salvaged, it was hit by a torpedo from U-957 on September 23rd 1944 at Grid Reference XA 7183. (Big Martin)
7184: Author number 7184 on Project Gutenberg is Percy Grainger, which is a bit surprising since he wasn't an author but a composer and collector of folk music. Out of his numerous compositions and arrangements over half a century, the only one listed on Gutenberg is his setting of the folk-tune "Shepherd's Hey". (Brock)
7185: The Nuffield Health Derby Hospital offers vasectomy reversal at £7,185. (Big Martin)
7186: As of October 14, the US Federal Aviation Authority had received 7186 laser strike reports for 2021 - the highest number of reports since 2016. (Brock)
7187: The Indian Express revealed that actor Ravi Dubey travelled 7,187 km to be with his wife on her birthday. (Big Martin)
7188: There are 7188 linear arrangements of 5 blue, 5 red and 5 green items such that there are no adjacent items of the same colour. (Brock)
7189: A yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in 1852 - 1853 killed 7,189 people. (Big Martin)
7190: DK-7190 is the postcode of Billund, Denmark - home to the Lego Group head office and site of the original Legoland. (Brock)
7191: AVoCet recording AV7191 is of the Fulvous Whistling-duck Dendrocygna bicolor, recorded in Mabamba Swamp in Uganda. (Big Martin)
7192: 7192 is a weird number, which means that the sum of the proper divisors (divisors including 1 but not itself) of the number is greater than the number, but no subset of those divisors sums to the number itself. There's a proof here. (Brock)
7193: The Jim Dunlop Bill Russell 7193 is an elastic capo for acoustic guitars. (Big Martin)
7194: 7194 votes were cast in total in November 2021's polls for the president of the Delhi University Teachers' Association, handing power to the National Democratic Teachers' Front for the first time in 24 years. (Brock)
7195: Harley manuscript 7195 is a translation of Ptolemy's Geography from the third quarter of the C15th. (Big Martin)
7196: In the 2016 Australian census, the suburb of South Brisbane (Queensland) had a population of 7196. (Brock)
7197: Lake Wisconsin has an area of 7,197 acres. (Big Martin)
7198: Oregon's Christmas tree growers lost portions of their crop to drought and heat over the summer. Marion County had 10,571 acres growing Christmas trees in 2015 but only 7198 acres in 2020. (Brock)
7199: Bentley sold 7,199 cars in the first half of 2021. (Big Martin)
7200: According to a draft regulation seen by Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Austrian residents who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 without valid health reasons could face fines of up to €7200 from next February. (Brock)

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