Friday, July 7, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 8101-8200

8101: Condition 8101 is the "No Work" condition on an Australian visa. (Big Martin)
8102: To become a listener to the County Durham Talking Newspaper, phone 0191 384 8102. (Brock)
8103: Great Torrington Community School Sports College has an internal area of 8,103 square metres. (Big Martin)
8104: There are 8104 circles on this drawing of The Fire Bird by Robert Joseph Moreau. (The artist counted them as he drew them.) (Brock)
8105: Globe Heat product 8105 is a nice, bright red emergency stop button. (Big Martin)
8106: At the time of the 2011 census, the east London district of Stratford recorded 8106 Christians and 3643 Muslims. (Brock)
8107: 8107 Massage is based in Memphis, Tennessee. (Big Martin)
8108: There were 8108 rough sleepers in London in 2016-2017, according to official figures. (Brock)
8109: 8109 is a music album from 2019 by Aira Misaki. (Big Martin)
8110: According to the Texas Department of Transportation, there were 8110 bicycle accidents in Texas during 2018. (Brock)
8111: The 8111 Clubhouse is a meeting space for Alcoholics Anonymous groups in Sandy Springs, near Atlanta, Georgia. (Big Martin)
8112: In California in 2020, there were 8112 wildfires that burned 1,443,152 acres. (Brock)
8113: The Crypt of Civilization is an impenetrable airtight chamber, built between 1937 and 1940 at the Oglethorpe University in Georgia that is not meant to be opened before 8113 AD. (Big Martin)
8114: Davis-Warner House is a historic home located at 8114 Carroll Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. (Brock)
8115: The 41 kilometre section of the Culoz-Modane railway between Bardonecchia and the southern terminus of the Mont Cenis tunnel has 26 tunnels with a total length of 8,115 metres. (Big Martin)
8116: There are 8116 11x11 black-and-white mirror-symmetric grids that are legal for crossword puzzles and have no all-black edges. (The definition of "legal for crossword puzzles" is given in the link, but is a lot more restrictive than the one normally used for British puzzles.) (Brock)
8117: The National Archives in Kew hold a "parish name book" for Hempstead [sic] in Gloucestershire. National Grid reference SO 8117. It's actually Hempsted (with no "a"). (Big Martin)
8118: 8118 is another strobogrammatic number (if you write your 1's with a single vertical stroke). Like 8008 (q.v.), it also has horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry. Not quite as curvy though. (Brock)
8119: 8119 Miles is a film from 2021. (Big Martin)
8120: Fairford (Glos) C of E Primary School raised £8120 for the British Red Cross appeal for Ukraine in its latest fundraising campaign. (Brock)
8121: Peakbagger entry 8121 is the Queen Elizabeth Mountains in Antarctica. (Big Martin)
8122: The weight of the tenor bell at Exeter Cathedral is 8122 pounds. (Ed.)
8123: The 8123 Fest is held in Phoenix, Arizona. (Big Martin)
8124: There were 8124 gun homicides in the USA in 2014. (Brock)
8125: BCY 8125 is a make of bowstring. (Big Martin)
8126: No climbers were harmed in the massive avalanche that occurred on Nanga Parbat last month, in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. It is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8126 metres. (Brock)
8127: In March 2022 it was reported that Guwahati Traffic Police had fined over 8,127 people for not wearing a helmet. (Big Martin)
8128: A real rarity now: 8128 is the 4th perfect number (after 6, 28 and 496). Perfect numbers were known to the ancient Greeks. A number is defined as perfect if it's equal to the sum of its positive divisors, including 1 but excluding the number itself:
8128 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 127 + 254 + 508 + 1016 + 2032 + 4064
The next perfect number is 33,550,336, so it's safe to say we won't see another one in the list! (Brock)
8129: Spacehub project 8129 was Slough Bus Station. (Big Martin)
8130: Sherry Groom of Alliance, Ohio, is a record-breaking collector of troll figurines. As of September 2018 there were 8130 unique trolls in her collection, now displayed in the "Troll Hole" Museum. (Brock)
8131: In the Ripon episcopal area of the Church of England there are 8,131 church attendees. (Big Martin)
8132: 8132 is the postcode of Egg in Switzerland. (Brock)
8133: The record for the longest rollercoaster is held by Steel Dragon 2000 in Nagashima Spa Land which is 8,133 feet and 2 inches long. (Big Martin)
8134: In 2020 Clyst St Mary Primary School in Devon embarked on a virtual fundraising journey called "Clyst to Cape". The aim was to raise £8134 for charity, by recording how far everyone was running, cycling or walking until they covered 8134 miles, the distance from Clyst St Mary to Cape Town in South Africa. (They covered the whole distance but in the end only raised £2624.) (Brock)
8135: The Rearwin Cloudster 8135T was a pilot training variant of the aircraft developed to fulfil a request from Pan Am. (Big Martin)
8136: Volvo Cars' US sales for the month of August reached 8136, out of 43,666 worldwide. (Brock)
8137: Diesel locomotive 20137 was originally built for BR by English Electric in 1966 and first numbered as D8137. It is now operated by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. (Big Martin)
8138: There were 8138 traffic casualties in Scotland in 2018-19. (Brock)
8139: 8139 Event Boutique is an event venue in Leeds, Alabama. (Big Martin)
8140: There were 8140 marriages in Northern Ireland in 2005. (Brock)
8141: Moebius 8141 is an oil designed for larger clocks. (Big Martin)
8142: I usually make a rule of never quoting entries from OEIS unless I understand them myself. However I'm going to make an exception for this one because it sounds so fantastic: there are 8142 labelled dyslexic rooted compound windmills with 6 nodes. (Brock)
8143: The Calais Jungle camp is believed to have had a population of 8,143 people at the time of its demolition in October 2016. (Big Martin)
8144: There were 8144 farmers' markets listed in the US Department of Agriculture's statistics for 2013. (Brock)
8145: Another deepest fish claim is for a type of snailfish with wing-like fins at 8,145 metres discovered in 2014. (Big Martin)
8146: Mount Sanpō, in the Okuchichibu Mountains of Japan, is the highest point in Saitama Prefecture at a height of 8146 feet. (Brock)
8147: Headbox space 8147 is the Georgian Room at the Geffrye Museum in London. (Big Martin)
8148: In June, a goods train departed from Yinchuan in China's northwest Ningxia Hui autonomous region, and its cargo arrived by ship at Bandar-e Anzali in northern Iran 20 days later. The 8148-kilometre journey by rail and sea was about 20 days shorter than if the goods had been sent by sea. It was the first trip across the Caspian Sea involving international freight train transportation from Ningxia. (Brock)
8149: Maui County in Hawaii had 8,149 registered firearms in 2021. (Big Martin)
8150: The Book of Genesis does not mention the height of the Tower of Babel. However the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish religious work, puts its height at 5433 cubits and 2 palms, which equates to 8150 feet. (Brock)
8151: The car carrier MV Golden Ray was built in Korea in 2016 (yard number H.8151) and capsized near Brunswick, Georgia in 2019 whilst carrying around 4,300 vehicles. (Big Martin)
8152: The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has recently amended and passed HR 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). It would govern how organizations across all industries treat consumer data, specifically information that can be used to identify individual citizens. (Brock)
8153: National Trust report SZK8153 covers Croome Park near Worcester. (Big Martin)
8154: Cookipedia, which describes itself as a "constantly evolving cookery Wiki", holds more than 8154 content pages and 9553 cookery photographs, including information on 2487 types of cheese. (Brock)
8155: Hillside is a village of 8,155 people near Chicago and contains Mount Carmel Cemetery where Al Capone was buried. (Big Martin)
8156: 8156 abortions were carried out in the Republic of Ireland in 2022. (Ed.)
8157: Dielsdorf is a municipality in Switzerland. Its postal code is 8157. (Strawberry)
8158: During the first half of 2022, Austrian citizenship was granted to a total of 8158 people. (Brock)
8159: The U S National Library of Medicine contains a report of clinical trials using DA-8159 to treat erectile dysfunction. (Big Martin)
8160: At the 2010 general election, after serving a term as the Respect Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway declined to contest the seat again, but instead stood in the neighbouring constituency of Poplar and Limehouse. He was less successful there, coming third with 8160 votes. (Brock)
8161: Simplicity pattern 8161 is for 18th century highland costumes. (Big Martin)
8162: According to the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report issued by the University of Pennsylvania, there were 8162 think tanks around the globe in 2018. (Cf. #8248.) (Brock)
8163: With an elevation of 8,163 metres, Manaslu in Nepal is the 8th highest mountain in the world. (Big Martin)
8164: Every pair of consecutive digits in 8164 forms a perfect square (81, 16 and 64). The only higher number with this property is 81649. (Brock)
8165: Wallonia Belgium Tourism entry 8165 is the Aisne Tourist Tram in the Ardennes. (Big Martin)
8166: On direct instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi German forces deported and interned 2300 Channel Islands civilian residents during WWII. The stated reason was retaliation for internment of German citizens in Persia (now Iran) by the British Government. By 11 November 1941, following the census undertaken in the Islands in August, the Germans knew there were 8166 Channel Island citizens born in the United Kingdom and had identified the men, and possibly women, who could be deported with their property confiscated and redistributed. A camp near Cologne had been prepared and shipping readied to transport 6000. (Brock)
8167: The National Library of Medicine holds a 1995 paper on migraine and concomitant symptoms among 8167 adult twin pairs. (Big Martin)
8168: 8168 graduates from both undergraduate and postgraduate courses were conferred with degrees at Vellore University of Technology's 37th convocation, held on 18 August this year. (Brock)
8169: In 2020, the population of Malaga province in Spain increased by 8,169 people. (Big Martin)
8170: As at 1 September 2017, there were 8170 untrained personnel in the UK Regular Forces, of whom 2600 were in the Army. (Brock)
8171: Hickling Arthurs Low study 8171 is to assist the National Research Council to analyse three options for Canadian investment in the Thirty Metre Telescope. (Big Martin)
8172: The revenue of EDF Energy in 2019 was £8172 million. (Brock)
8173: The Saulsbury Herd Management Area in Nevada ranges in elevation from 5,292 feet by the Nellis Test Site boundary, up to 8,173 feet on Sheep Mountain. (Big Martin)
8174: 8174 and its eighth multiple, taken together, contain all the digits from 1-9 once each: 8174 x 8 = 65392. (Brock)
8175: 8,175 people attended online events in connection with National Numeracy Day 2022. (Big Martin)
8176: 8176 appears as "glib" on an upside-down calculator (seven-segment display). (Brock)
8177: Electronic Microscopy Data Bank image EMD-8177 is of the near atomic structure of the Dark apoptosome. (Big Martin)
8178: Welsh Mountains in Snow, by the distinguished Welsh artist Augustus John, has accession number 8178 in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (Brock)
8179: Location Department's location 8179 is at Woodstock in upstate New York. (Big Martin)
8180: Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" took first place in the Slicing Up Eyeballs 2015 poll of the top 100 songs of 1980, in which 8180 readers voted. (Brock)
8181: 8181 Med Center apartments are in Houston, Texas. (Big Martin)
8182: Between April and June 2020 there were 8182 Covid-19 breaches in Staffordshire, but only 56 fines were issued - the lowest of any police force in England. (Brock)
8183: The water tanks on locomotive 5239 have a capacity of 8,183 litres. (Big Martin)
8184: 8184 is the postcode for Anger in the Austrian state of Styria. (Brock)
8185: ISO 8185 covers humidifiers for medical use. (Big Martin)
8186: 8186 Live is the second live album by the Japanese band Loudness. (Brock)
8187: Camra Pub Heritage entry 8187 is for the Ship Inn in Keynsham. (Big Martin)
8188: On January 1 2016, there were 8188 electric vehicles registered in Quebec. This is taken from a 2016 article in the Montreal Gazette headlined "Quebec has a long road ahead to reach goal of 100,000 electric cars by 2020". (I don't know if they actually achieved it.) (Brock)
8189: 8189 Naruke is a main belt asteroid. (Big Martin)
8190: John Blair of the Alliance Party came third in the South Antrim constituency in the 2019 general election, with 8190 votes. (Brock)
8191: 8,191 people in Kerala own licensed guns. (Big Martin)
8192: Time for a fanfare: 8192 = 213, or 10000000000000 in binary. (Brock)
8193: Ian Williams is currently ranked 8,193rd in the junior boys 18 category of the United States Tennis Association. (Big Martin)
8194: Roadworks on the A77 in Girvan, South Ayrshire next week will benefit an estimated 8194 vehicles using the route each day, according to Transport Scotland. (Brock)
8195: Fungi Collection NCPF 8195 is Cryptococcus neoformans. (Big Martin)
8196: 8196 US service personnel were recorded as missing in action during the Korean War. (Brock)
8197: Apparently, the meaning of the Unicode Han character U+8197 is "ugly and fat, too fat to move". (Big Martin)
8198: In April 1945 the U.S. Third Army captured the village of Merkers, 200 miles south of Berlin, where the Nazis had hidden most of their stolen treasure in a potassium mine. They found 8198 bars of gold bullion in the mine along with gold coins, silver bars, and paper money. The total value (in 1945 dollars) was estimated to be over $520 million. (Brock)
8199: The highest point in Poland is Mount Rysy in the High Tatras at 8,199 feet. (Big Martin)
8200: Unit 8200 is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence and code decryption. It is staffed primarily by 18 to 21-year-old conscripts. (Brock)

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