The Quite Incredible Number List: 8701-8800

8701: 8701 is a 2001 album by Usher. (Big Martin)

8702: 8702 forms a perfect square if you append the digit 5 to it (87025 = 295²). (Brock)

8703: 8703 is the product code for this pair of sunglasses. (Awitt)

8704: The Rabalux 8704 lamp is known as, for some reason, a "Bristol". (Big Martin)

8705: Between Febuary 10 2019 and February 10 2020, there were 8705 yaqona farmers in the Northern Division of Fiji, whose total crop value was $1.5 billion. ("Yaqona" is the Fijian name of the crop better known as kava or kava kava. Nice to learn a new word with a "q" but no "u"!). (Brock)

8706: The European Southern Observatory science release eso8706 is about the unusual behaviour of supernova 1987A in LMC. (Big Martin)

8707: There were 8707 days of on-location filming in the Greater Los Angeles region in the first quarter of 2015. (Brock)

8708: 8708 is a 2022 album by Homie Gang UFO. What is it with these 87xx numbers for album names? (Big Martin)

8709: As of September 2016, there were 8709 betting shops in the UK. (Brock)

8710: The Third Step on Everest is at an altitude of 8,710 metres. (Cf. #8564.) (Big Martin)

8711: The controversial indefinite Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, introduced in the UK in 2005, were passed 8711 times before being abolished by the European Court of Human Rights in 2012. (Brock)

8712: A female grey wolf tagged in Oregon as OR-54 clocked up a minimum 8712 miles of wanderings between January 2018 and December 2019. She's thought to have looked for a mate. (AlmondFacialBar)

8713: There are 8713 primes less than 90,000. (Brock)

8714: The French silent film series La maison du mystere from the 1920s has 10 instalments over 8,714 metres of film. (Big Martin)

8715: Brazil is thought to have the highest diversity of tree species on earth, at 8715 of them. (AlmondFacialBar)

8716: 8716 service crosses - the second highest honour given out by the US Army, Navy and Air Force - were awarded during World War II. (Brock)

8717: The Dubai Diamond was a container freighter of 8717 summer DWT. She was built by Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry, Varna, Bulgaria in 1988 and last seen in the Strait of Singapore on 16-Mar-2009. (AlmondFacialBar)

8718: In 2014 there were approximately 8718 hectares planted in the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo wine-producing area, producing 857,500 hectolitres of wine. (Brock)

8719: Reference D 8719(L) of the State Library of South Australia is the diary of one Francis Lester Chappell written while he was serving in the Palestine Supply Corp of the AIF from 26-Apr-1918 to 8-Feb-1919. (AlmondFacialBar)

8720: The steam ship Sedgepool was carrying 8,720 tons of wheat when sunk by a torpedo from U-123 on October 19th 1940. (Big Martin)

8721: Volume 336, issue 8721 of The Lancet as published on 20-October-1990 contained an article about abortion as an election topic in the US. (AlmondFacialBar)

8722: The Hallandsås Tunnel in Sweden is 8722 metres long in one bore, 8710m in the other. (Brock)

8723: On December 15th 1940 Bristol Blenheim aircraft L8723 made a forced landing near Catterick due to bad weather. The plane was a write-off but the crew were only slightly injured. (Big Martin)

8724: In 1959, natural gas was discovered at a depth of 8724 feet in the village of Kolham, in the Dutch province of Groningen. Later, it was discovered that the Groningen gas field was the largest natural gas field in Europe. (Brock)

8725: Engine 8725 of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire department in suburban Long Island is a 1991 Pierce 1500 GPM Pumper. (AlmondFacialBar)

8726: Start off with a string of 4 different characters:

abcd

By duplicating any substring, you can create 4 different strings of 5 characters:

aabcd, abbcd, abccd, abcdd

By using repeated duplications, you can create 13 different strings of 6 characters:

aaabcd, aabbcd, aabccd, aabcdd, ababcd, abbbcd, abbccd, abbcdd, abcbcd, abcccd, abccdd, abcdcd, abcddd

In a similar fashion you can create 8726 different strings of 12 characters. (Brock)

8727: The North American Moth Photographers Group listing 8727 is Parallelia bistrialis, the Maple Looper. (Big Martin)

8728: Up to 1993, 8728 was the postcode of Haßfurt in Lower Franconia. It still is the post code of Pogányszentpéter in southwestern Hungary, and Skoúlli near Paphos on Cyprus. And probably a couple more places, too. (AlmondFacialBar)

8729: The Labour politician Charles Duncan, who had lost his seat at the 1918 general election, narrowly failed to get back into Parliament at the February 1920 by-election in The Wrekin when he polled 8729 votes, 538 behind the Independent Conservative Charles Palmer. He failed again when another by-election was held in the constituency in November of the same year, but returned to Parliament in 1922. (Brock)

8730: The MAN L+V32/40 (DE) diesel-electric marine propulsion engine runs on Heavy Fuel Oil and can be specced with up to 8730 KWe. (AlmondFacialBar)

8731: The Kuhn GA 8731 is a rotary rake for haymaking. (Big Martin)

8732: 8732 is a former clothing brand by the rapper Young Jeezy. It's the alphanumeric keypad encoding of "USDA", which in turn stands for "United Street Dopeboys of America", and is meant to examine the roots of hiphop by embodying the spirit of the urban street hustler. The brand was originally called USDA, but had to be renamed because the US Department of Agriculture got there first and trademarked the acronym. (AlmondFacialBar)

8733: Fowler locomotive 8733 was purchased in 1900 for use on a tramway to a sugar mill in Queensland and is now preserved on a plinth in Port Douglas. (Big Martin)

8734: The Hohe Munde is an 8734-foot-high mountain at the eastern end of the Mieming Chain in the Austrian state of Tyrol. (Brock)

8735: Vogue Very Easy 8735 A is a sewing pattern for an asymmetrical two part dress probably best described as a casual evening gown from about the mid-1970s. (AlmondFacialBar)

8736: 2⁸⁷³⁶ ends in the digits 8736. (Brock)

8737: On the weekend from Friday, 16- to Sunday, 18-Oct-2020, the Swiss public health agency recorded 8737 new Covid cases, bringing the total to 83,159 between Switzerland and Liechtenstein. (AlmondFacialBar)

8738: Ayr in Queensland had a population of 8,738 at the time of the 2016 census. (Big Martin)

8739: 8739 oil wells were drilled in the United States during the second quarter of 2013. (Brock)

8740: Bluebell Railway locomotive "Baxter" has a tractive effort of 8,740 lbs. (Big Martin)

8741: According to a recent report by the Labour Party, the Foreign Office spent £7218 on a reception for Liz Truss against the backdrop of a Sydney Harbour amusement park in early 2022. Forbes magazine reports this as the equivalent of US$8741. (Brock)

8742: LNER steam crane 8742 was built in 1945/6 and is now at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. (Big Martin)

8743: The highest points on the Tour du Mont Blanc hiking trail are the Col des Fours in France and the Fenêtre d'Arpette in Switzerland, both at an altitude of 8743 feet. (Brock)

8744: 8744 is a TV movie from 2006. (Big Martin)

8745: 8745 is a slang term in the Urban dictionary, being used in a derogatory sense for a teacher. (Awitt)

8746: Introduced in 1967, the Type 746 was an old-style GPO telephone with a rotary dial. When it was modified for the "New Plan" plug and socket system, it became an 8746. They're still in use today. (Brock)

8747: The Penthouse 8747 is a restaurant in the Philippines. (Big Martin)

8748: Closer to home there's the Old Ship on the Thames in Hammersmith, London - phone 020 8748 2593. (Brock)

8749: Minor planet 8749 is called Beatles after the group. (Big Martin)

8750: 8750 is seven-eighths of 10,000. (Brock)

8751: Guadalupe Peak (also known as Signal Peak) is the highest natural point in Texas, with an elevation of 8,751 feet. (Big Martin)

8752: The C8752, maintained by Windsor and Maidenhead council, runs for a grand total of 0.8 miles along Wessex Way and Cox Green Road. (As local authorities allocate their own C-road numbers, it may not be the only one.) (Brock)

8753: Teklad 8753 is a miniswine diet. Also, sticking with pigs, UK government certificate 8753 is required to export porcine semen to North Macedonia. (Big Martin)

8754: 8754 women and 7426 men competed in the Two Oceans Half Marathon in Cape Town in 2017 - the first time there had been more women than men. (Brock)

8755: A study into venous thrombosis resulting from air travel followed 8,755 employees of international organisations between 2000 and 2005. (Big Martin)

8756: In 1991 it was estimated that there were 8756 km of dry stone walls in the Peak District National Park. (Brock)

8757: Science Photo Library image F028/8757 is a chemical diagram of the Swainsonine locoweed toxin molecule. (Big Martin)

8758: There were 8758 deaths related to alcohol use in the UK in 2015. (Brock)

8759: BA 8759 from LCY to BCN was operated by BA Cityflyer and arrived 18 minutes before schedule today, on an Embraer 190 with the tail number G-LCAC. (AlmondFacialBar)

8760: There are 8760 hours in a year (except leap years). Source: a calculator. (Brock)

8761: The Doc Martens 8761 is a classic 10 hole boot with an external toecap. (AlmondFacialBar)

8762: There are 8762 nonisomorphic loopless matroids of rank 3 on 10 labelled points. I have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds great. (Brock)

8763: GWR 8763 was a steam loco designed for shunting and light freight work. It was built in 1933 for Great Western Railways, taken over by British Rail in 1948 along with all the other Great Western assets and scrapped in 1963. (AlmondFacialBar)

8764: Justin Madders held Ellesmere Port and Neston for Labour at the 2019 general election with a majority of 8764. (Brock)

8765: 8765 is a 2007 song by Khat Phud. (Big Martin)

8766: AMT/ERTL article 8766 is a scale model of the USS Reliant from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that was released an astonishing 13 years after the movie. The scale is given as both 1/650 and 1/537, reflecting rather nicely the ongoing controversy among the Trekkie community about the true size of the ships. (AlmondFacialBar)

8767: Group Leisure and Travel's article 8767 is on "TV and film locations to visit along the Great West Way route from London to Bristol" and mentions Dyrham Park's appearances in Poldark. (Big Martin)

8768: There were 8768 applications for asylum in the UK in the second quarter of 2021. (Ed.)

8769: Simplicity pattern 8769 is a "Women's Medieval Cosplay Coat". This appears to have even less connection to actual medieval dress than some of the attractions in my previous entry have to the A4! (Big Martin)

8770: There are 8770 composite numbers up to and including 10,000. (A reminder that "composite" means "not prime and not equal to 1".) (Brock)

8771: A 2021 government report showed that an extra 8,771 police officers had been recruited in the UK. (Big Martin)

8772: Minor planet 8772 Minutus is named after... well, nothing really. It's an epithet used in the biological names of some birds (e.g Larus minutus, the little gull). (Brock)

8773: National Portrait Gallery image NPG D8773 is an 1844 engraving of several people with South African connections. (Big Martin)

8774: Between April 2015 and May 2016 there were 8774 reports of phone scams throughout Wales. (Brock)

8775: HH-8775 is a retired fire truck that was operated by the Lemsahl-Mellingstedt volunteer fire brigade in suburban Hamburg. (AlmondFacialBar)

8776: MK-8776 is a selective Chk1 inhibitor - whatever that means. (Big Martin)

8777: On June 24, 2021, an apartment building at 8777 Collins Avenue in Surfside, South Florida, partially collapsed, resulting in 98 fatalities. (Brock)

8778: A survey in 1847 put the height of Mount Everest at 8,778 metres. (Big Martin)

8779: Over the period 2004-2018 there were 8779 koala admissions to Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. (Brock)

8780: A 2022 survey of 8,780 people concluded that smokers become lonelier than non-smokers as they get older. (Big Martin)

8781: To the nearest integer, 18^π = 8781. (Brock)

8782: The GPO model 8782 telephone was a 1982 upgrade of the 1970s model 782. (Big Martin)

8783: UKIP came within 1771 votes of taking the Eastleigh constituency at the 2013 by-election. However, at the 2015 general election their candidate Patricia Culligan fell to third place with 8783 votes. (Brock)

8784: The Rolex 8784 is a minute lantern clock designed to be used as a pendant. (AlmondFacialBar)

8785: 8785 kilograms of salmon and sea trout were caught in the Norwegian river Mandalseva in 2015. (Brock)

8786: It would appear that the 87s are a goldmine for GPO phone models, so here's 786/8786 as introduced respectively in 1977 and 1982. Snazz-AY! (AlmondFacialBar)

8787: 87.87. is the usual notation to indicate the metre of a hymn such as Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. It refers to the fact that each stanza has a line of eight syllables, then seven, then eight, then seven (usually in trochaic metre). (Brock)

8788: Ffestiniog Railway locomotive "The Colonel" is a 20 HP Simplex engine, builder's number 8788, built in 1943 for a sand and gravel works, (Big Martin)

8789: Lucy, the guitar given to George Harrison by Eric Clapton in 1968, had the serial number 7-8789. (Brock)

8790: HIP 8790 is a main sequence star of the spectrum type F8V (for us mere mortals that means it's yellow-white) that is located within the Hydrus constellation, but not part of it. It's 736.26 light years from here and, should you be hanging around anywhere between the deep northern tropics and the South Pole at the right time of year, you can see it with a bog standard pair of binoculars. (AlmondFacialBar)

8791: Woodspring Lodge 8791 meets at the Masonic Hall in Yatton (near Bristol) from October to May. It's a shame they don't know how to spell "Freemasonry". (Brock)

8792: Reference UC 8792 in University College London's archaeology collection refers to a terracotta plaque of the Greek god Harpocrates in Roman uniform as dug up in Memphis (not Tennessee). (AlmondFacialBar)

8793: Mount Discovery in Antarctica has an elevation of 8,793 feet. (Big Martin)

8794: In 1902 there were 8794 clerks employed by the US Railway Post Office service. (Brock)

8795: The Kubota KX080-4a excavator weighs 8795 kgs and runs on a 48.8 kW Diesel, which is a considerably lighter engine that I'd have ever expected to see in heavy construction machinery. (AlmondFacialBar)

8796: Sheffield Wednesday's lowest home attendance during the 2001-2 season was 8796 against Crystal Palace in the League Cup on 10 October 2001. (Brock)

8797: Between 2010 and 2019, the number of 18- to 24-year-olds resident in New Mexico fell by 8797. (AlmondFacialBar)

8798: 8798 = 21³ - 21² - 21 - 1. (Brock)

8799: HR 8799 e is a large exoplanet orbiting star HR 8799. (Big Martin)

8800: The Altair 8800, released in 1975, is widely recognized as the first commercially successful personal computer. (Brock)