Wednesday, July 5, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 8401-8500

8401: According to Amnesty International, there were 8401 death-row executions in China from 1995 to 1999. (Brock)
8402: Alfarrabista Collection photo 8402 is of a Bristol 164 Brigand aircraft of the RAF. (Big Martin)
8403: 8403 is 33333 in base 7. (Brock)
8404: In 2020, 8,404 people crossed the English Channel in small boats. This year the figure has exceeded 40,000. (Big Martin)
8405: Lamborghini produced 8405 vehicles in 2021 - its best year ever. (Brock)
8406: BS 8406:2020 is a code of practice for event stewarding. (Big Martin)
8407: Last month, a hoard of 8407 coins dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries was discovered by metal detectorists near Dunscore, in Dumfries and Galloway. It is believed to be one of the largest medieval coin hoards found in Scotland since the 19th century. (Brock)
8408: 8408 people were convicted in 2021 in Ireland for driving without insurance. (Ed.)
8409: Minor planet 8409 Valentaugustus was named after Valentin Augustus Weber, grandfather of its discoverer Robert Weber. Born in Germany, he moved to the U.S. in 1889, where he designed and constructed stained-glass windows for cathedrals and mahogany furniture for his friends and neighbors in Brooklyn, New York. (Brock)
8410: 8410 is the code number for this pen from my Australian office supplies store. (Awitt)
8411: In the Thanet North constituency at the 2015 general election, which was won by Roger Gale for the Conservatives, Labour's Frances Rehal came third with 8411 votes. (Brock)
8412: 8412 Secret Key Cove is a holiday home in Kissimmee, Florida. (Big Martin)
8413: The population of Richmond in North Yorkshire at the 2011 census was 8413. (Brock)
8414: BS 8414 is a standard of test methods to ascertain the fire safety of building cladding materials. (Big Martin)
8415: The Governor of Ondo State in Nigeria, Rotimi Akeredolu, has approved the promotion of 8415 civil servants during 2022. (Brock)
8416: LNER J77 loco 8416 was one of two of the class sold to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1950. (Big Martin)
8417: Yorkshire County Cricket Club drew an average attendance of 8417 to seven home games in 2015. (Brock)
8418: Ariana Grande has "8418" tattooed on her foot. (Big Martin)
8419: 8419 is a prime that is the concatenation of two squares (841 = 292, 9 = 32). (Brock)
8420: Peak 8420 in Idaho has an elevation of (guess what) 8,420 feet. (Big Martin)
8421: 8421 has digits that decrease by a factor of 2 each time - and it's the largest number of that type. No reference required! (Brock)
8422: The 2003 SARS outbreak infected 8,422 people. (Big Martin)
8423: At the end of September 2018 there were 8423 betting shops in Britain. (Brock)
8424: The 8424 watermelon, also known as the Zaojia watermelon, is claimed to be "the king of the watermelons". (Big Martin)
8425: Romania granted temporary protection status to 8425 Ukrainian citizens in October this year. (Brock)
8426: Recently a Bar Tailed Godwit set the world record for a non-stop migration flight of 8,426 miles from Alaska to Tasmania. (Big Martin)
8427: 8427 are the first four digits of the phone number to this park area at the edge of Melbourne, Australia: Cardinia Reservoir Access Rd, Emerald VIC 3782. Phone: (03) 8427 2002 (Awitt)
8428: Kanjavec is an 8428-foot mountain in the centre of Triglav National Park, Slovenia. (Brock)
8429: Advanced Paints colour 8429 is Renault Schokoladenbraun. Though why a Renault paint would have a German name I don't know. (Big Martin)
8430: The top real-estate sale in Collier County, Florida during November 2022 was 1330 Gallean Drive, Naples, with an area of 8430 square feet. It sold for $27,900,000. (Brock)
8431: 8431 Miles is a song on the 2015 album Absolutio(N) by Heiss. (Big Martin)
8432: I almost did a double-take when I saw that there were 8432 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in Ipswich. Of course it's our old friend Ipswich, Queensland, Australia (2016 figures). (Brock)
8433: According to IMDb, The Comedy Store at 8433 West Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood was used as a location in 14 films. (Big Martin)
8434: Telepholis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the Cenomanian to the Campanian age. The holotype is specimen GIM-8434. (Brock)
8435: The Ring of Brodgar in the Orkneys is the third largest stone circle in the British Isles, covering an area of 8,435 square metres. (Big Martin)
8436: 8436 is the 36th tetrahedral number. You can stack 8436 spheres in the shape of a tetrahedron (triangular pyramid) with 36 spheres per side. (Brock)
8437: An aqueduct over the River Calder at grid reference SD 8437 3225 in Burnley is a Grade II Listed Building. (Big Martin)
8438: In July 2021, there were 8438 radio stations in Brazil. (Brock)
8439: During the Great Yaeyama Tsunami of 1771 8,439 people were killed on Ishigaki Island in Japan. (Big Martin)
8440: As of January 1 2003, there were 8440 km of toll roads, bridges and tunnels in the US. (Brock)
8441: Pernod Spire in Washington State has an elevation of 8,441 feet. (Big Martin)
8442: 8442 is the code number for this diary made from vegan leather. (Awitt)
8443: In computer networking, port 8443 is a common alternative HTTPS port. (Brock)
8444: 8444 Popovich is a Mars-crossing asteroid. (Big Martin)
8445: The area of Bács-Kiskun county in southern Hungary is 8445 square kilometres. (Brock)
8446: Lagoon Group product 8446 is a Christmas Nano Origami game. (Big Martin)
8447: This Royal Majestic Christmas Eve Fine China 8447 Vintage China Set [sic] is available on etsy.com for £78.03. (Brock)
8448: Lladro product 8448 is a 2019 porcelain Christmas bell. (Big Martin)
8449: Noah's Ark Children's Hospice in Barnet, North London, can be contacted on 020 8449 8877. (Brock)
8450: People v $8,450 United States Currency is an American legal case from 1995. (Big Martin)
8451: 84.51° describes itself as "a retail data science, insights and media company creating relevant and valuable experiences". (Brock)
8452: San Francisco careers code 8452 is for Criminal Justice Specialist II. (Big Martin)
8453: Minor planet 8453 Flaviataldini was discovered by H. Debehogne and G. De Sanctis in March 1981, and named after Flavia Taldini (b. 2020), the grand-daughter of Mario Di Martino, astronomer at the Turin Astrophysical Observatory and colleague and friend of the discoverers. (Brock)
8454: Thrown altered vessel with yellow 8454 by Barry Stedman is available for £120. Sorry, but I don't think I'll buy it. (Big Martin)
8455: In 2000, there were 8455 grains of pollen per cubic metre in the United States. It is estimated that by 2040, this number will bypass 21,000 grains per cubic metre. (Brock)
8456: The Bolu Ataturk Stadium in Turkey can hold 8,456 people. (Big Martin)
8457: There were 8457 empty houses in Glasgow in 2016. (Ed.)
8458: The Port of A Coruna has 8,458 metres for the various dock services. (Big Martin)
8459: In 2016 there were 8459 petrol stations in the UK. (Brock)
8460: 8460 is an Atlantean bus owned by the SELNEC Preservation Society. (Big Martin)
8461: As of the beginning of 2020, there were 8461 bison in the world, according to the European Bison Pedigree Book. (Brock)
8462: AQA subject 8462 is GCSE Chemistry. (Big Martin)
8463: The consecutive integers 8463 and 8464 form a Ruth-Aaron pair of the second type. This means that the sum of the prime divisors of 8463, counted with multiplicity, is the same as the sum of the prime divisors of 8464:
3 + 7 + 17 + 31 = 54
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 23 + 23 = 54
(Brock)
8464: Lake Country Family Medicine is at 8464 Boat Club Road, Fort Worth, Texas. (Big Martin)
8465: In 1904, there were 8465 motor cars in use in the whole of Great Britain. (Brock)
8466: Standard ISO 8466 covers analytical methods of assessing water quality. (Big Martin)
8467: In the live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga series My Roomie Is a Dino, the character of Kaede is played by a "fashion model and talent" called "8467" (real name Natsuki Yashiro). (Link translated from Japanese Wikipedia page). (Brock)
8468: The DVD Eisenbahnen in Volkes Hand (8468) covers railways in the DDR from the 1950s to the 1980s. (Big Martin)
8469: At the end of the SARS epidemic in June 2003, the incidence was 8469 cases with a case fatality rate of 11%. (Brock)
8470: Makalu 8470 Metres: The Highest Peak Yet Conquered By An Entire Team is a book be Jean Franco about the 1955 climbing of the mountain by a French team. These days, Makalu is actually reckoned to be 8481 metres high. (Big Martin)
8471: As of 22 May 2019, there were 8471 electric vehicle charging stations across the UK. This was the first time that the total had surpassed the number of petrol stations. (Brock)
8472: Species 8472 is an alien race featured in Star Trek: Voyager. (Big Martin)
8473: At the 2015 general election, the SNP candidate Brendan O'Hara defeated the incumbent Liberal Democrat by 8473 votes in the Argyll and Bute constituency. The SNP came from fourth place to take the seat. (Brock)
8474: Mount Forbes on the South Island of New Zealand has an elevation of 8,474 feet. (Big Martin)
8475: Episode 8475 of Aussie drama/serial Neighbours aired in October 2020. (Awitt)
8476: NatureScot site 8476 is the Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands SPA. (Big Martin)
8477: The number (4 x 108477) - 99 is prime. Written out in full, it would be 3999...99901 with 8475 9's. (Brock)
8478: The post code of Thalheim an der Thur in Switzerland is 8478. (Big Martin)
8479: Over the entire celestial sphere there are 8479 stars within magnitude limit 6.5, often said to be the average naked eye limit. (Brock)
8480: Marine Regions MRGID 8480 highlights the maritime boundaries of India and its neighbouring nations. (Big Martin)
8481: Makalu in the Himalayas is the fifth highest mountain in the world, at 8481 metres. (Brock)
8482: In the 2001 Hungarian census, 8,482 people declared Romanian as their mother tongue. (Big Martin)
8483: The first Soviet standard for the romanization of Russian - i.e. transliteration of Russian from the Cyrillic script to the Latin script - was OST 8483, introduced in 1935. (Brock)
8484: BS 8484 2022 is the British industry standard for the health and safety of lone workers. (AlmondFacialBar)
8485: 8485 cases of gout were diagnosed in the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area during the year to March 2022. (Brock)
8486: National Library of Scotland moving image archive 8486 is a film of the Glasgow University Air Squadron in 1960. (Big Martin)
8487: In the United States, the Primitive Methodist Church had 8487 members in 1996. (Brock)
8488: The average population of Middle Layer Super Output Areas in Gloucestershire is 8,488 people. (Big Martin)
8489: Customer services at Haringey Council can be contacted on 020 8489 1000. (Brock)
8490: In 2020/21 8,490 people in the UK received structured treatment for their gambling problems. (Big Martin)
8491: The colours of the flag of the Philippines are laid down in Republic Act 8491, passed in 1998. (Brock)
8492: After surviving being torpedoed in 1940, the merchant steamer Carsbreck was again torpedoed and sunk at grid reference CG 8492 on October 24th 1941. (Big Martin)
8493: 8493 is the last four-digit number seen when scanning the decimal digits of the natural logarithm of 10 (i.e. the logarithm of 10 to the base e). The natural logarithm of 10 is approximately 2.302585..., and you have to scan 88092 digits to get there! (Brock)
8494: The fishing industry in the South West Region of Cameroon employs over 8,494 people. (Big Martin)
8495: Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter. A group of them has been reported around the frequency of 8495 kHz. (Brock)
8496: 8496 is the last bit of code for this Queensland council site about this lost/found cat. (Awitt)
8497: In 2017 sailor Gary Jobson gave 68 presentations to a total of 8,497 people. (Big Martin)
8498: Last Tuesday, Turkey's electricity exports amounted to 8498 megawatt-hours. (Brock)
8499: BS 8499 is the standard specification for domestic gas meter boxes. (Big Martin)
8500: The monthly minimum wage in Turkey is being increased to 8500 liras as of this month (about £360). (Brock)

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