Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 7401-7500

7401: The 7401 TTL integrated circuit is an open-collector variant of the 7400 that allows for greater fan-out and integration with devices that are outside the restricted voltage limitations of TTL devices. (PDR)
7402: Virgin TV error code 7402 means "there is a problem with the wireless connection". Predictably, the first suggestion given is to switch it off and on again. (Brock)
7403: The address for Friends of Shannon Staub Public Library is P.O. Box 7403, North Port, FL 34290, United States. (Strawberry)
7404: In 2020, the number of 16 year old males in the Solomon Islands was interpolated at 7,404. (Big Martin)
7405: 7405 is the postcode for Kensington, a northern suburb of Cape Town in South Africa. (Brock)
7406: Masjid Al Habib mosque is at 269, Barking Rd, Plaistow, London, E13 8EQ. The phone number is 44 20 7511 7406. (Strawberry)
7407: Ghum railway station on Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the highest station in India, situated at an altitude of 7407 feet. (Ed.)
7408: The article Opposition in Nazi Germany reveals that 7,408 people were arrested for refusing to work in one month alone. (Big Martin)
7409: Top of Westchase WOW's list of "Seven Spots for the Perfect Picnic in Tampa" is the appropriately-named Picnic Island, at 7409 Picnic Island Boulevard, Tampa, Florida. (Brock)
7410: Stirling Scotland Skyline, is numbered 7410 at artpause.com. (Strawberry)
7411: 7411 is prime, and its digits can be split up into an addition sum (7 + 4 = 11). There are only 11 prime numbers below 10,000 with this property. (Brock)
7412: Bacteria Collection number NCTC 7412 is Acinetobacter baumannii, isolated from human urine. (Big Martin)
7413: In 1931, 7413 people of Icelandic extraction were in the United States. (Brock)
7414: The remains of Phantom aircraft 63-7414 can be seen at the Midlands Air Museum located at Coventry Airport. (Big Martin)
7415: From the Pensacola News Journal: a bargaining team representing the teachers' union in Escambia County, Florida, the Escambia Education Association Local 7415, rejected a $200 annual pay rise earlier this month. (Brock)
7416: The Kueng 7416 is an alto recorder. (Big Martin)
7417: The Liberal candidate Graham Tope gained Sutton and Cheam from the Conservatives by 7417 votes in the 1972 by-election caused by Richard Sharples' appointment as Governor of Bermuda. (Brock)
7418: Halmstad Airport in Sweden has one runway with an asphalt surface measuring 7,418 feet by 131 feet. (Big Martin)
7419: Last April the Mirror reported that a seven-day stay for four in Newquay in August was being advertised for £7419 - more than twice as much as a trip to New York. (Brock)
7420: According to the Office for National Statistics, 7,420 people were claiming out-of-work benefits in St Helens as of April 2021. (Big Martin)
7421: According to Istanbul's Disaster Coordination Centre, a total of 7421 personnel, 1582 snow-fighting vehicles and construction equipment are ready against any possible issues arising from bad weather (as at Jan. 22). (Brock)
7422: 7422 is the code number for this Lego set. (Awitt)
7423: National Portrait Gallery image npg ax7423 is of Frederick William Hervey, 2nd Marquess of Bristol; an albumen carte-de-visite from the early 1860s. (Big Martin)
7424: The mechanically-powered Philips type 7424 flashlight from World War II got its nickname of "knijpkat" from the sound that it produced when operated - Dutch for "pinched cat", apparently from the sound of the dynamo running down. (Brock)
7425: Aeroflot Flight 7425 crashed on July 10th 1985 near Uchkuduk in what's now Uzbekistan, killing all 200 passengers and crew. (Big Martin)
7426: 7426 = 1 + 2x3 + 4 + 5x6 + 7 + 8x9 + 10 + 11x12 + 13 + 14x15 + 16 + 17x18 + 19 + 20x21 + 22 + 23x24 + 25 + 26x27 + 28 + 29x30 + 31 + 32x33 + 34 + 35x36 + 37 + 38x39 + 40 + 41. (Brock)
7427: Out of the 76,538 tourists who arrived in Sri Lanka between January 1st and 29th this year, 7,427 were from Ukraine. (Big Martin)
7428: Hartlepool's annual pre-Christmas Trees of Remembrance event raised £7428 for the local Alice House Hospice last year. (Brock)
7429: Monument MSO7429 in Exmoor National Park is Wychanger Iron Mine, a C19th opencast haematite mine near Luccombe. (Big Martin)
7430: Lamborghini delivered 7430 supercars worldwide in 2020 - its second-best year ever. (Brock)
7431: The Welsh Highland Railway's locomotive 130 is a Beyer Peacock Garratt design engine built in 1951 for South African Railways and bearing the works number 7431. (Big Martin)
7432: In 1880, Benjamin Singleton (known as "the Moses of the Colored Exodus") informed a special U.S. Senate committee seeking the causes of the migration that he had brought 7432 people out of the South to Kansas, and he proudly but erroneously proclaimed, "I am the whole cause of Kansas migration!" (Brock)
7433: Amongst the world records held by Triton Submarines is the deepest dive in the Southern Ocean, at 7,433 metres. (Big Martin)
7434: Minor planet 7434 is named after Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. (Brock)
7435: Deeside Books' product listing 7435 is a copy of Bristol As It Was 1914 - 1900 by Reece Winstone. (Big Martin)
7436: On the night of Monday 10th January, there were 7436 people in Toronto's homeless shelter system. (Brock)
7437: Gerry and the Pacemaker's record Ferry Cross The Mersey was released in the UK in 1964 by Columbia as DB 7437. (Big Martin)
7438: A total of 7438 days were lost at Essex hospitals in the week ending January 2 because staff were sick or self-isolating due to Covid. (Brock)
7439: The ISBN for Khajuraho: Indian Temples and Sensuous Sculptures; 5 Continents Editions by Christophe Hioco and Luca Poggi, is 978-88-7439-778-5. (Strawberry)
7440: Write out the natural numbers (starting with 0) in a triangle, with the length of the row increasing by two each time, as in the illustration here, where the total of the numbers in each row is given in the right-hand column. The total of the numbers in row 15 will be 15 x 16 x 31 = 7440 (OEIS). (Brock)
7441: Huerfano Mesa in New Mexico climbs to 7,441 feet and is one of the four sacred mountains in Navajo culture. (Big Martin)
7442: The British Medical Journal reported in November on two separate trials of AstraZeneca's antibody treatment AZD7442. When taken as a prophylactic it reduced the risk of symptomatic Covid-19 by 83%, and when taken three days after symptom onset it cut the risk of severe illness or death by 88%. (Brock)
7443: 7443 bulbs are typically used for external applications on cars, such as brake lights etc. (Big Martin)
7444: Attendance numbers at Khandallah Pool in Wellington, New Zealand fell from 45,253 in the summer of 1998/99 to 7444 in 2016/17. (Brock)
7445: Tree Record 7445 is for a veteran English Oak (Quercus robur) in Sandford Mill Copse in Woodley near Wokingham. (Big Martin)
7446: The Conservative MP Aaron Bell currently holds his Newcastle-under-Lyme seat with a majority of 7446 over Labour. (Brock)
7447: Camden Shipyard Maritime Museum is at 1910 Broadway, Camden, NJ 08104, United States. The phone number is +1 856 541 7447. (Strawberry)
7448: The US Army Publishing Directorate D A Form 7448 is a day practice scoreboard for firing the M2 .50 calibre machine gun. (Big Martin)
7449: A study published recently in the journal Risk Analysis suggests that people who embrace the ideologies of libertarianism and anti-egalitarianism are more likely to disregard the risks of COVID-19 and oppose government actions. A sample of 7449 adults participated in the survey. (Brock)
7450: The Java Trench is the deepest part of the Indian Ocean, with a maximum depth of 7,450 metres. (Big Martin)
7451: In Chinese internet slang, 7451 or 7456 means "I'm angry". (Brock)
7452: According to this article around 7,452 people die every day in the USA. (Big Martin)
7453: To the nearest integer, the total surface area of a regular dodecahedron with edge length 19 is 7453. (Brock)
7454: PD-50, or Project 7454, was a Russian large floating dry dock in use at Murmansk. (Big Martin)
7455: At Manchester County Court in 2021, Martin Potts, who wrote a number of fake negative reviews on Tripadvisor, was ordered to pay £7455 to Steve Hoddy, the owner of Bispham Kitchen in Blackpool, after Mr Hoddy tracked him down and sued him. Mr Hoddy had qualified in law with a first-class degree from Cambridge before going into the hospitality business. (Brock)
7456: The German registered sailing vessel Painkiller has the call sign DH7456. (Big Martin)
7457: On 29 December 2021 (the first day of trading in London after the Christmas break), the FTSE 100 share index rose to 7457 before closing the day at 7420.69. (Brock)
7458: The Ventilation Tower for the tunnel on the Severn Beach railway line situated in the Gully on Clifton Down, Bristol is at map reference ST5630 7458. (Big Martin)
7459: From the Timaru Herald, New Zealand, January 19 2022: a Timaru couple said they were surprised to see a fishing boat, with the name Aurora 7459, in Caroline Bay on Sunday and were shocked to see crew throwing what they believe to be fish guts and scales overboard just a few hundred metres from where families were swimming. The regional council is investigating. (Brock)
7460: In 2017 a 7,460 sq ft roof canopy was erected at the Newport Railway Museum in Victoria. (Big Martin)
7461: KT-7461, better known as Kit, is a character who appears in the video game Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. (Brock)
7462: There are 7,462 lights in the Mersey Tunnels. (Big Martin)
7463: UK Research and Innovation had 7463 staff in the year 2019/20. (Brock)
7464: British Museum item M.7464 is a medal depicting General George Monck produced in 1660. (Big Martin)
7465: 7465 is 54321 in base 6. (OEIS) (Brock)
7466: The Cinema Sins hotline is 405-459-7466. (Strawberry)
7467: New home registrations in North-East England were up 74% to 7467 in 2021. (Brock)
7468: A Russian Mile (used up to 1925) was 7,468 metres long. (Big Martin)
7469: A recent census reveals that there are at least 7469 research nurses and midwives across the UK and Ireland. (Brock)
7470: Canadian National steam locomotive 7470 was built in 1921 and is now at the Conway Scenic Railroad in New Hampshire. (Big Martin)
7471: In 2015, the artist Michael Mandiberg announced that he was making a 7471-volume printed version of Wikipedia available for $500,000... [continued at #7473] (Brock)
7472: 7,472 sq ft of retail space is available at Maggs House in Clifton, Bristol. My late godfather used to work in the offices there when it was still occupied by Maggs. (Big Martin)
7473: [continued from #7471] ...but by the time it was uploaded for printing, it was actually 7473 volumes at 700 pages each. That's how fast it grows! (Only 106 volumes were in fact printed.) (Brock)
7474: The manufacturer's plate from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns Ltd locomotive 7474 is in the National Trust's collection at Penrhyn Castle. (Big Martin)
7475: '74-'75 is a song by American rock band the Connells from their fifth studio album. It became a hit in Europe in 1995 (and their only top-20 hit in the UK) but never charted in the US. (Brock)
7476: Phoenix product 7476 is M-section bookcase strip. (Big Martin)
7477: Code 7477 is an album by the German electronic-industrial music project Funker Vogt. (Brock)
7478: The Boeing 747-8 is a stretched version of the famous "jumbo jet" launched in 2005. (Big Martin)
7479: Access to Work is a publicly funded employment support programme that aims to help more disabled people start or stay in work. You can apply by calling the helpline on 0800 121 7479. (Brock)
7480: House of Commons research briefing CBP-7480 from December 2021 is on electric vehicles and infrastructure. (Big Martin)
7481: 7481 is a prime of the form k2 - k - 1, with k = 87. (Ed.)
7482: (7482) 1994 PC1 is a potentially hazardous stony asteroid of the Apollo group that passed a little over 1.2 million miles from the Earth a month ago. (Big Martin)
7483: New York to Moscow by air is 7483 kilometres. (Brock)
7484: HR 7484 is a binary star system in the constellation of Cygnus. (Big Martin)
7485: A digital comparator or magnitude comparator is a hardware electronic device that takes two numbers as input in binary form and determines whether one number is greater than, less than or equal to the other number. Examples include the TTL 7485. (Brock)
7486: 7486 is a creator of online music mixes based in Odessa. (Big Martin)
7487: A planning application by Tower Hamlets Council to have the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane converted into a large corporate office building has received 7487 letters of objection. (Brock)
7488: Only 16 International Harvester 7488 tractors were ever made, leading to them selling for over $100,000 in recent years. (Big Martin)
7489: Marcus Brown of the UK Independence Party came third with 7489 votes in the Sutton Coldfield constituency at the 2015 general election. (Brock)
7490: With a drop of 7,490 feet, the world's tallest elevator is at Mponeng Gold Mine in South Africa, (Big Martin)
7491: The population of the city of Paços de Ferreira in northern Portugal in 2011 was 7491. (Brock)
7492: Sentinel loco, works number 7492, was built in 1928 and used at the Fry's chocolate factory near Keynsham. It is now on the nearby Avon Valley Railway in Bitton. (Big Martin)
7493: Rwanda National Police arrested two people on Saturday September 11 2021 in Nyabihu District with 7493 pellets of cannabis. (Brock)
7494: ISO 7494-1 covers stationary dental units and patient's chairs. (Big Martin)
7495: The highest mountain in Tajikistan is Ismoil Somoni Peak, with an elevation of 7495 metres. Before Tajikistan became independent, it was the highest mountain in the Soviet Union (and the Russian Empire before that). It was previously known as Communism Peak, and before 1962 as Stalin Peak. (Brock)
7496: There were 7,496 public order offences committed in Bristol in 2021. (Big Martin)
7497: 7497 is the minimum number k for which the sum of the digits of 4k is 36: 7497 x 4 = 29988, and 2 + 9 + 9 + 8 + 8 = 36. (Brock)
7498: The 2-6-6-6 locomotives built by Lima Locomotive Works for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway were some of the most powerful and biggest steam locos ever built. Dynamometer car tests on one gave momentary readings of 7,498 horsepower. (Big Martin)
7499: The total cost of 42 weeks' residence at Birmingham University's Bournbrook flats for 2022-23 is £7499. (Brock)
7500: 7500 is an action-thriller film about a plane hijacking released in 2019. There is also Flight 7500 from 2016, which is a supernatural horror film set on a plane. (Big Martin)

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