Monday, August 7, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 2401-2500

2401: 2401 = (2+4+0+1)4. (WordLover)
2402: First Baptist Church of Jeffersonville is at 2402, East 10th Street, Jeffersonville, IN 47130. (Strawberry)
2403: Maths course 2403 at Georgia Tech concerns itself with differential equations. (AlmondFacialBar)
2404: 2404 is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2003. (Awitt)
2405: 2405 Lane is a footpath in the Marino neighbourhood of Dublin that connects Casino Park with the Charlemont development. (AlmondFacialBar)
2406: 2406 = 23² + 24² + 25² + 26². (WordLover)
2407: EC Council Regulation (EEC) No 2407/92 specifies the requirements for the licensing of air carriers (passenger or freight) by EC member states. (PDR)
2408: If f(a) = a³ + 19, are f(a) and f(a + 1) coprime for every a? No! The first counterexample is a = 2408 where the highest common factor is 2437. (WordLover)
2409: CIE 2409 was a model of buffet car operated by Irish Rail from the 1950s to the 1970s. (AlmondFacialBar)
2410: There are 2410 trees (that is, graphs which are connected and don't have any cycles) which have 16 nodes, each connected to at most 3 other nodes. (WordLover)
2411: FM 2411 is a farm to market road in Dawson County, TX. (AlmondFacialBar)
2412: 2412 is the part number of a Lego brick often used to firm the grille at the front of a car. (bemahan)
2413: Benjamin Roberts 2413 is a style of wedding dress. (Big Martin)
2414: PU 2414 is a tug registered under Singaporean flag that is currently moored in Ho Chi Min City. (AlmondFacialBar)
2415: EMC 2415 is the model number for an iPad mini 2 wifi only model. (Alfred E Neuman)
2416: N2416X is a 1941 Curtiss P40E fighter plane currently registered in Dover, DE. (AlmondFacialBar)
2417: 2417 is 10022 in base 7, and 10022112 in base 3. That is, its base-3 representation starts with its base-7 representation. (WordLover)
2418: The 2418 (Sherwood) Squadron is an air training corps in Nottingham. (AlmondFacialBar)
2419: Armageddon 2419 A.D. a novella by Philip Francis Nowlan which became Buck Rogers (Wirish)
2420: There are 2420 possible rook moves on an 11x11 board. (WordLover)
2421: 2421 Decimal Code is a weighted code, whose weights are 2, 4, 2 and 1. A decimal number is represented in 4-bit form and total weight of the four bits = 2 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 9. Hence the 2421 code can be used to represent the decimal digits 0 to 9:
00000
10001
20010
30011
40100
51011
61100
71101
81110
91111
(Wirish)
2422: "And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold." - Genesis 24:22 (AlmondFacialBar)
2423: On 2423 or 02/04/1923, Polymath G Spencer Brown was born. (Wirish)
2424: There are 2424 Dyck paths of length 18 (i.e. paths which have 9 upward and 9 downward steps in some order, and so end at the same height as the starting point, but never go lower) having an odd number of peaks at even height. (WordLover)
2425: 2425 Films is a French associate film production company. (Big Martin)
2426: Room 2426 is an episode from the third season of The Twighlight Zone (Wirish)
2427: Minuscule 2427 is a 19th century forgery of the gospel of Mark. (AlmondFacialBar)
2428: UZIN KE 2428 is an adhesive for PVC floor coverings. (Big Martin)
2429: The carol "Let Christians all with one accord" has Roud folk song number 2429. (bemahan)
2430: 2430 AD is a short story by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in the October 1970 issue of the IBM in house magazine Think. (AlmondFacialBar)
2431: 2431, as well as being a permutation of 1234, is the Stirling number of the second kind S(13, 11). (WordLover)
2432: 2432 the stock code for Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Ltd on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Wirish)
2433: AB 2433 is a weekly flight from Lanzarote to Hamburg. (AlmondFacialBar)
2434: There are 2434 legal king moves in chess. (WordLover)
2435: Sloane 2435 is a late 13th century illuminated manuscript in the British Library. (AlmondFacialBar)
2436: There are 2436 partitions of 26. (WordLover)
2437: Moose Mountain (elev. 2437 metres (7, 995 ft)) is a mountain located 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Bragg Creek, Alberta in Kananaskis County. (Strawberry)
2438: In 2438 of the partitions of 42, each part is at least 3. (WordLover)
2439: NGC 2439 is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Puppis. It has an apparent magnitude of 6. 9, an angular size of 10 arcminutes and is visible using a small telescope. This cluster is about 3. 855 kpc from the Solar System and has an age of about 10 million years. Observationally, this cluster is along the line of sight of two groups of B-type supergiant stars. The nearer group are located at a distance of 1. 03 kpc, while the second group are at 3. 2 kpc. (Strawberry)
2440: Allgood ironmongery product 2440 is a Modric stainless steel toilet roll holder. (Big Martin)
2441: NGC 2441 is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Camelepardalis. A Type 1a supernova, SN1995E, occurred in NGC 2441, and observations suggest it may display a light echo, where light from the supernova is reflected from matter along our line of sight, making it appear to "echo" outwards from the source. (Strawberry)
2442: War Memorial 2442 is at St Mary with St Athanasius church in Liverpool. (Big Martin)
2443: The Determination Of Christ To Suffer For His People - Sermon No. 2443. (Strawberry)
2444: There are 2444 ways to tile a 5x9 rectangle using copies of the I, P and X pentominoes. (WordLover)
2445: The Garmin Nuvi 2445 sat nav was the navigation device supplied when traveling in Europe by my wife's previous employer. (Wirish)
2446: Minuscule 2446 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. Dated paleografically to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents. (Wirish)
2447: There is a legal case in the USA known as Pennsylvania v 2,447 Bottles of Wine. (Big Martin)
2448: Episode 2448 of Sesame Street was brought to you by the letters E, and M, the number 4 and also featured James Galway. It was broadcast March 23 1988. (Wirish)
2449: 2449 is the population (census of 2001) of Nepolokivitsi, a village in the the Chernivtsi province in western Ukraine. (Wirish)
2450: The Nordic Track Commercial 2450 is an exercise treadmill. (Big Martin)
2451: ISO 2451:2014 specifies the requirements, classification, test methods, sampling, packaging, and marking for cocoa beans. (Wirish)
2452: There are 2452 partitions of 32 where each part is square-free. A number is square-free unless it's a multiple of the square of a prime. So 5 has 6 partitions into square-free parts: 5, 3+2, 3+1+1, 2+2+1, 2+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1, but not 4+1 because 4 is the square of 2. (WordLover)
2453: The 3M Littmann 2453 is a stethoscope. (Big Martin)
2454: twofour54 is a tax-free media and entertainment free zone based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates that facilitates the development of Arabic media and entertainment content in the region. (Wirish)
2455: SOS phone 2455A is on the A404(M) just off J9a of the M4. This is not far from the village of Bray, which currently contains Heston Blumenthal's restaurant the Fat Duck (tetsabb)
2456: 2456 = 11³+10³+5³ = 12³+8³+6³ = 12³+9³+(-1)³. (WordLover)
2457: Planetary system BD20 2457 contains at least 2 planets according to the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. (Big Martin)
2458: 2458 = 12³+9³+1³ = 10³+9³+9³. (WordLover)
2459: Mascord House Plans' plan 2459 is called the Terrebone and is claimed to be inspired by a "French Country" exterior. (Big Martin)
2460: On poetry.net, A Bunch of Roses by Andrew Barton Paterson is poem 2460. (Strawberry)
2461: 2461 is a centred triangular number. (WordLover)
2462: Diffwys (2462ft/750m), is the southernmost peak of the Harlech Dome area in North Wales. (ellylles)
2463: Here is a link to a Lord of the Rings page about TA 2463. (Strawberry)
2464: There are 2464 ways to partition 55 into parts each of which is 5 or greater. (WordLover)
2465: Kosmos 2465 is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2010 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. It was launched with Kosmos 2464 and Kosmos 2466. (Strawberry)
2466: Lego part 2466 is a 3 x 2 x 6 panel produced from 1988 to 2009. (Big Martin)
2467: NGC 2467 is a star-forming region, popularly known as the "Skull and Crossbones nebula," whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colourful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. This region was one of the areas featured in the book Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson. (Strawberry)
2468: "2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?" (Wirish)
2469: 2469 = 12345/5. (WordLover)
2470: The Lycoming H2470 aero engine was developed by the company in the 1930s. It was only ever used for a couple of experimental military aircraft types. (Big Martin)
2471: There are 2471 level-3 rooted trees with 6 labelled leaves. (WordLover)
2472: The British Airways 777-200 aircraft, unveiled in China in 2015, took an engineering team over 2472 hours to complete. ('yorz)
2473: 2473 is the 51st E-toothpick number. An E-toothpick has 3 prongs, all the same length. These prongs are joined at their ends, at 60 degrees to one another (as in this diagram). A prong-end which doesn't touch any other prong-end is called a free end. At day 1, a single E-toothpick is placed. Each succeeding day, wherever there's a free end of a prong, a new E-toothpick is placed, whose middle prong is in the same direction as that other prong. So at day 2 there are 4 E-toothpicks. And at day 47 there are 2473. (WordLover)
2474: Egerton Manuscript 2474 dates from the C17th and is a collection of transcriptions of much earlier authors, such as Pseudo Plutarch. (Big Martin)
2475: The Knights of Columbus Santa Maria Council No. 2475. (Strawberry)
2476: 101, 103, 107 and 109 are all prime. So are 247601, 247603, 247607 and 247609. (WordLover)
2477: Revised Statute 2477 was passed by the U.S.Congress in 1866. Its aim was the enabling the construction of roads to hasten the settling of the West. (Big Martin)
2478: German Rail InterRegio 2478 was a train service that ran from Konstanz to Kassel via Offenburg, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt in 1991. It offered an on board cafeteria and phone service as well as wheelchair access. (AlmondFacialBar)
2479: Kosmos 2479 is a Russian US-KMO missile early warning satellite which was launched in 2012 as part of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces' Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using infrared telescopes. It was the last US-KMO geostationary satellite, to be launched, prior to the system being replaced by EKS. (Strawberry)
2480: 2480 Autos is based in Buffalo, N.Y. (Big Martin)
2481: There are 2481 non-equivalent ways to choose two points in an equilateral triangle grid of side 18. (WordLover)
2482: The Vitosha is a bulk carrier with the callsign 9HA2482. She is registered in Malta and currently moored in Ashdod, Israel. (AlmondFacialBar)
2483: A 2023 study by the Nuffield Trust showed there are 2483 patients for every GP in the city - the worst ratio in England. (Ed.)
2484: Issue 2484 of New Scientist featured the cover "Why you have at least 21 senses". (Big Martin)
2485: 2485 = (2 x 35 x 35) + 35. (WordLover)
2486: Aircraft B2486 is a Boeing 747-89L operated by Air China and currently on the landing approach for Beijing. (AlmondFacialBar)
2487: 24874 = 4354 + 7104 + 13844 + 24204. (WordLover)
2488: The Four Marys by Anonymous is Poem No. 2488 on daypoems.net. (Strawberry)
2489: Imperial War Museum catalogue number EPH 2489 is a beaded snake made by a Turkish POW. (Big Martin)
2490: 2490 = 2 x 3 x 415. 12345 but not necessarily in the right order. (WordLover)
2491: UN 2491 is the UN number for Ethanolamine or Ethanolamine solutions. (Strawberry)
2492: NCBI Gene ID 2492 codes for the follicle stimulating hormone receptor in Homo sapiens. If that gene mutates the resulting girl will either have underdeveloped ovaries or ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. (AlmondFacialBar)
2493: In the Doctor Who audio story The Crash of the UK-201, an Earth spaceship en route to Astra in 2493 has crash-landed on the planet Dido. (bemahan)
2494: Food Fast Convenience Store is at 2494, Airline Dr, Bossier City, LA 71111. (Strawberry)
2495: US Code 2495 covers Nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: purchase of alcoholic beverages. (Awitt)
2496: L 2496 is a tertiary highway (read Boreen) along the side of Curraghbinny Wood in Carrigaline, Co. Cork. (AlmondFacialBar)
2497: On Walking Britain, Walk 2497 is about Druid Circle, Moelfre and Foel Lus from Penmaenmawr. (Strawberry)
2498: Aircraft registration B2498 is a Boeing 767 of Shanghai Airlines. (Big Martin)
2499: The Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2010, H.R. 2499, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on the 19th of May, 2009 by Pedro Pierluisi, the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress. It would have provided for a referendum giving Puerto Ricans the choice between the options of retaining their present political status, or choosing a new status. (Strawberry)
2500: 2500 is the 2nd power of 50.0. (WordLover)

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