Saturday, July 8, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 7801-7900

7801: Here is a photo of Slovakian Air Force MiG 21 fighter 7801. (Big Martin)
7802: 7802 households in Milton Keynes were in fuel poverty in 2020. (Brock)
7803: Shyah's Vegan Bakery is at 0000, McKnight Dr, Knightdale, North Carolina, 27545, United States. The phone number is (919) 815-7803. Chaldon Hill's number at hill-bagging.co.uk, is 7803. (Strawberry)
7804: There are 7804 ways of getting a flush (five cards of the same suit, not all sequential) in wild-card poker with one joker. (Brock)
7805: The 7805 voltage regulator is very commonly used in electronic circuits. (Big Martin)
7806: The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell), a midsized public research university located north of Boston, has given its name to the minor planet 7806 Umasslowell. (Brock)
7807: WISE 0313+7807 is a brown dwarf star in the constellation of Cepheus. (Big Martin)
7808: Although Okinawa only accounts for 0.6 percent of Japan's total land area, it hosts about 70 percent of all U.S. military facilities in Japan. Compared to 50 years ago, land used by the U.S. military outside of Okinawa has dropped from 19,699 hectares to 7808 hectares. But the decrease in Okinawa has only been from 27,892 hectares to 18,483 hectares. (Brock)
7809: At least 7,809 people were killed in road crashes in Bangladesh in 2021. (Big Martin)
7810: 7810 is the only four-digit number whose square is the concatenation of two consecutive numbers: 78102 = 60996100 (6099 concatenated with 6100). (Brock)
7811: The Cisco 7811 is a deskphone. (Big Martin)
7812: Followers of the Indian stock market will be interested to know that the Nifty Midcap 50 index was up 0.18 per cent at 7812 on Thursday. (Yes, they really have something called the "Nifty 50"!) (Brock)
7813: The Failsworth 7813 is a "disc style hatinator with a large flower and feather display on top". I think this is the first time I've ever come across the term "hatinator"! (Big Martin)
7814: Here's a photo from the Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 7814, also known as the "Little Sombrero". It features a bright central bulge, a thin disk full of dust, and a glowing halo of gas and stars that sprawls out into space. It is roughly 40 million light-years from Earth, 80,000 light-years wide, and billions of years old. (Brock)
7815: The Pikes Peak Ascent run in Colorado is 13.3 miles long and climbs 7,815 feet to finish at an elevation of 14,050 feet. (Big Martin)
7816: Last Saturday morning (28 May) at 8am, volunteers gathered ahead of Memorial Day to place 7816 American flags, one in front of each grave at the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana. They were removed at 8am yesterday. (Brock)
7817: It is claimed that Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn locomotive works number 7817 was the last industrial steam locomotive working in Britain. (Big Martin)
7818: The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 caused a 50-foot tidal wave (tsunami) that travelled as far as Cape Horn, 7818 miles away. (Brock)
7819: GWR Manor class locomotive 7819 Hagley Hall is one of 9, out of 30 originally built, that have been preserved. (Big Martin)
7820: Enquiries about the Bat Conservation Trust's training courses should be directed to 020 7820 7169. (Brock)
7821: There are discussions under way about repatriating the Benin Bronze head (object number Ea7821) in Bristol Museum to Nigeria once a suitable future "home" is agreed upon. (Big Martin)
7822: Road crashes killed 7822 Ugandans during the past two years - twice the number who died of Covid-19. (Brock)
7823: Weather Station EW7823 is in Bristol, Rhode Island. (Big Martin)
7824: 7824 = 211 + 37 + 55 + 73 + 112. (The bases are the first five prime numbers, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11; the exponents are the same five numbers in reverse order.) (Brock)
7825: There is a video called The Problem with 7825 on Numberphile, explaining the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem. (Big Martin)
7826: 7826 shipping containers, comprising 3829 import containers and 3997 export containers, were handled during the last 24 hours (Wed 8 June) at Karachi Port. (Brock)
7827: The World Health Organisation library record 7827 is for the Kim Jong Il Encyclopaedia. (Big Martin)
7828: There are 7828 ways to place 8 non-attacking queens on an 8 x 10 board. (Brock)
7829: The VPK-7829 Bumerang is an armoured personnel being developed for the Russian army. (Big Martin)
7830: The country with the largest renewable energy capacity is Iceland, which produces 7830 megawatts for every million inhabitants. (Brock)
7831: The World Record for the fastest crossing of Canada on foot (female) is held by Ann Keane who covered the 7,831 km in 143 days in 2002. (Big Martin)
7832: Yesterday (June 10) in Iloilo City, Philippines, a man was arrested for violation of Republic Act 7832 that prohibits pilferage of electricity and theft of electric power transmission lines. (Brock)
7833: Derbyshire Historic Environment Record monument MDR7833 is Carsington Pasture Cave near Brassington which had evidence of human occupation from the Early Neolithic through to the Bronze Age. (Big Martin)
7834: Nebuchadnezzar II's Prism, also known as the Hofkalender, EŞ 7834, The Court of Nebuchadnezzar, the Unger Prism, Nebuchadnezzar's Court Calendar, the Phillipps Cylinder, Nbk Zyl III,4, C34, and Nr. 9, is an artefact from the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The text is a review of the personnel of the Babylonian bureaucracy in order to ensure all remain loyal to Nebuchadnezzar. (Brock)
7835: The phone number 0300 322 7835 has recently been used for a fake HMRC letters scam. (Big Martin)
7836: According to Word Unscrambler, you can make 7836 words from the letters in "bacteriochlorophylls". (Brock)
7837: The R/S Rocket Ship that is used to transport rocket components to Cape Canaveral etc. has the callsign WCZ7837. (Big Martin)
7838: The Labour candidate Rachael Schneider Ross came third in the Devizes constituency at the 2019 election, with 7838 votes. (Brock)
7839: Here is a photograph of the inside of the cockpit of Bristol Sycamore HR12 helicopter registration 7839M at Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum. (Big Martin)
7840: 7840 is the 40th dodecagonal number - a number representing a polygon with 12 sides. Here's a diagram of the first four such numbers. (Brock)
7841: The runway at Kos International Airport "Hippocrates" is 7,841 feet long. (Big Martin)
7842: Twenty Essex is a barristers' chambers in Essex Street, London WC2 (I presume it's at number 20, otherwise it's a very odd name!). The phone number is 020 7842 1200. (Brock)
7843: ESPG:7843 a geodetic 3D coordinate system for Australia. (Big Martin)
7844: With an elevation of 7844 feet, Three Fingered Jack is a summit of a shield volcano of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. (Brock)
7845: Horizon 7845 is a luxury ski cabin at Powder Mountain Resort, Utah. (Big Martin)
7846: In the 2019-2020 period, non-smoking regulations were implemented in 7846 primary schools in Vietnam. (Brock)
7847: In 2016, 7,847 people were employed in agriculture in Tasmania. (Big Martin)
7848: Americans who want help to give up smoking can call the National Cancer Institute on 877-44U-QUIT (877-448-7848). (Brock)
7849: On June 8th 1967, the 7,849 ton USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats during the Six Day War. It was concluded by an enquiry that it was a case of mistaken identity, but there are still claims it was a deliberate attack. (Big Martin)
7850: The largest cinema chain in the US is AMC with 7850 screens. (Brock)
7851: 7851 is an artwork by Todd Hido. (Big Martin)
7852: 78/52 is a 2017 film that takes an in-depth look at the infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The title is a reference to the 78 setups and 52 cuts involved in filming the scene. (Brock)
7853: In 2018, Korean artist Do Ho Suh's exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington attracted an average of 7,853 visitors per day. (Big Martin)
7854: 0.7854 is quite a good approximation to π/4, and is sometimes easier to use than π in calculations; e.g. the area of a circle is approximately 0.7854 times the square of its diameter. (In case you want a fact about 7854 itself, it's approximately the area of a circle with diameter 100.) (Brock)
7855: The 7,855 foot long Newburgh-Beacon bridge is the most travelled of the New York State Bridge Authority's spans. (Big Martin)
7856: In south-west India, 7856 students were reported absent on the first day of the Karnataka 2nd Pre-University Course exam conducted on April 22 this year. They included two students who disobeyed the dress code, as well as another hijab ban protesting student who did not appear. (Brock)
7857: A crowd of 7,857 people watched Tranmere Rovers beat Mansfield Town 3-2 on March 13th 2022. (Big Martin)
7858: www.7858.co.uk is the website address of the National Security Screening Agency, which sounds like a Government body but is actually a private company carrying out screening of security personnel in accordance with BS7858. (Brock)
7859: Naval History and Heritage Command image 80-G-7859 is of the flight deck of the carrier USS Enterprise on August 7th 1942. (Big Martin)
7860: With 7860 researchers, the Denver/Boulder area (Colorado) is the 14th largest U.S. market for life sciences talent. (Brock)
7861: 7861 is a song by Beneath The Sky. (Big Martin)
7862: If you live in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency and wish to contact your local MP, Keir Starmer, about a constituency issue, the phone number is 020 7388 7862 - but not if you want to contact him in his role as leader of the Labour Party! (Brock)
7863: City & Guilds course 7863 is for a Diploma in Dog Grooming. (Big Martin)
7864: In the week ending April 3, 7864 people in Scotland had to wait longer than four hours to be seen at A&E - almost a third of patients. (Brock)
7865: In February of this year, 82 square metre 20 Chester Road, Walthamstow sold for £645,000 - a figure of £7,865 per square metre. (Big Martin)
7866: Piero Sicoli is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. Appropriately, he has a minor planet named after him - 7866 Sicoli, discovered on 13 October 1982 by American astronomer Edward Bowell. (Brock)
7867: Aircraft B-7867 is a Boeing 737 NG operated by Ruili Airlines of China. (Big Martin)
7868: There are 7868 4 x 4 binary arrays without the pattern "0 1 0" vertically or horizontally. (Brock)
7869: The K+W 7869-1B Luxury German Chair retails at £440. (Big Martin)
7870: According to the Wikipedia disambiguation page, 7870 may refer to:
Exynos 7 Octa 7870, a system on chip released in 2016
Radeon HD 7870, graphics chipset released in 2012
Unlike previous Wikipedia number disambiguation pages (see 6479, 7028), this one actually distinguishes between things that might be confused with each other! (Brock)
7871: US Internal Revenue Code 7871 provides Indigenous Nations/Tribes with the same tax advantages as state governments when they receive grants from foundation, charities or individual donors. (Big Martin)
7872: Jeremy Coney is a former New Zealand cricketer who scored 7872 runs in first-class matches. (Brock)
7873: Insects of Iowa record 7873 is of a sighting of the summer azure butterfly (Celestrina neglecta) in 2010. (Big Martin)
7874: Bihar was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary and a county of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Principality of Transylvania. Most of its territory (7874 km2) is now part of Romania, while a smaller western part belongs to Hungary. (Brock)
7875: The Columbus was a disposable ship built in Canada in 1824. In addition to carrying 7,875 long tons of timber, the plan was for the ship to be dismantled as well to partially get around the import duty on timber. (Big Martin)
7876: The 2021 PGA Championship was held from May 20-23 in South Carolina at Kiawah Island Golf Resort's Ocean Course, with a length of 7876 yards. (Brock)
7877: The Incan archaeological site of Rumicucho is at an elevation of 7,877 feet near Quito in Ecuador. (Big Martin)
7878: 7878 is one of only two four-digit numbers that shares no digits with its sixth power: 78786 = 239053914054595145623104. (Brock)
7879: 7879 is a jewellery resale business and takes its name from the periodic table numbers for platinum and gold. (Big Martin)
7880: A recent survey of major milk buyers by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) suggests that in April 2022 there were an estimated 7880 dairy producers in Britain. (Brock)
7881: Busch model 7881 is a car fire for HO gauge model railways. (Big Martin)
7882: The nursery rhyme Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882. (Brock)
7883: The deepest part of the Indian Ocean in the area where flight MH370 appears to have gone down is the Wallaby-Zenith fracture zone at 7,883 metres deep. (Big Martin)
7884: Recent measurements of the molecular clock for mitochondrial DNA reported a value of one mutation every 7884 years, dating back to the most recent common ancestor of humans and apes. (Brock)
7885: The 2010 Russian census revealed there were 7,885 Dolgans (a Turkified Tungusic people) living there. (Big Martin)
7886: A serving Civil Nuclear Constabulary police constable has recently been charged with the possession of thousands of child abuse images. Shaun Mandale, who works at Sellafield in Cumbria, faces six charges, including one of downloading 7886 Category A indecent child images. (Brock)
7887: The Astro 7887 Mondrain [sic] is a 600 mm frame wall light. I assume they mean Mondrian, unless they really are influenced by sand hillocks. (Big Martin)
7888: The last by-election of the 1992-97 Parliament was in Wirral South on 27 February 1997, when Labour's Ben Chapman overturned a Conservative majority of 8183 to win by 7888 votes, depriving the Tories of a majority in the House of Commons. Nine weeks later, Labour won a 179-seat majority at the General Election. (Brock)
7889: Aircraft D-7889 is a Bristol Fighter F.2B biplane. (Big Martin)
7890: The sequence of characters 7890 appears on the top row of the standard QWERTY keyboard layout (ignoring the function keys). (Brock)
7891: The Russian 2TE70 dual-unit diesel locomotive is rated at 7,891 hp. (Big Martin)
7892: Les Hommes de bonne volonté (translated as Men of Good Will) is an epic roman-fleuve by French writer Jules Romains, published in 27 volumes between 1932 and 1946. It has been classified both as a novel cycle and a novel, and, at two million words and 7892 pages, has been cited as one of the longest novels ever written. (Brock)
7893: BS 7893 is a specification for pressure sensitive adhesive sealing and closing tapes for use with sterilization packaging materials. (Big Martin)
7894: Monday April 11 this year was the busiest day in the history of Srinagar International Airport in Kashmir, India. 7305 passengers arrived in 51 flights while 7894 passengers flew out on the same number of flights. (Brock)
7895: The Getty Images site offers 7,895 Bronze Age stock photos. (Big Martin)
7896: 7896 is the 30th positive integer whose digits sum to 30. (Nice idea for a list!) (Brock)
7897: 7897 is the the reference number for Formica colour 'Spectrum Green'. Happy to know Formica is still in business, having spent happy hours picking at the yellow Formica countertop in my mum's 1970s' kitchen. From Wiki:- "Formica Laminate is a laminated composite material invented at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the United States in 1912." (bemahan)
7898: IWM photograph CF 511 is of Bristol Beaufighter X7898 'G' at Sadaung, Burma after a sortie. (Big Martin)
7899: Kia India sold 18,718 cars in May 2022. The Sonet was the highest contributor to the overall Kia sales with 7899 units. (Brock)
7900: To two decimal places, the square root of 7900 is 88.88. (Ed. - link suggested by bobwilson)

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