Sunday, August 6, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 2701-2800

2701: One (not reliable) way to see if n is prime or not, provided n>2, is to compute 2(n-1) modulo n -- if the answer is 1, n is prime; if not, not. Except that for some n, the answer is 1 even though n is composite. Such numbers are called Fermat pseudoprimes to base 2. 341 is the smallest, and 2701 is the 10th-smallest. (WordLover)
2702: Detachment 2702 is a fictional military unit from the novel Cryptonomicon. (Big Martin)
2703: Moonbuilding 2703 AD is the thirteenth studio album from ambient house duo The Orb. (Strawberry)
2704: Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game set in the year 2704. (Wirish)
2705: The GAZelle 2705 was a Russian panel van that was available as a two seater LGV and a six seater minibus and was in production from 1994 to 2010. (AlmondFacialBar)
2706: Royalty Salon is at 2706, Fairbanks Street 1, Anchorage, AK 99503, United States. (Strawberry)
2707: The Boeing 2707 was the first American supersonic transport project. (Awitt)
2708: Farm to Market Road 2708 or FM 2708, in eastern Texas (USA), runs about 2.055 miles (3.307 km) from an intersection with a county road, north to an intersection with TX 21 in Linwood. (Strawberry)
2709: 2709 = 101010010101 in base 2, 41314 in base 5 and 5225 in base 8 -- all palindromes. (WordLover)
2710: NS-2710 (LS-193, 970) is an anxiolytic drug with a novel chemical structure, developed by the small pharmaceutical company Neurosearch. (Strawberry)
2711: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin consists of 2711 concrete stelae. (AlmondFacialBar)
2712: The River by Paul Eluard is poem 2712 at famouspoetsandpoems.com. (Strawberry)
2713: There are 2713 non-null collections of positive integers that sum to no more than 20. (Duplicates are allowed. The order of the numbers doesn't matter.) (WordLover)
2714: On Walking Britain, Walk 2714 is between Beeston and Old Warden. (Strawberry)
2715: Office Depot store 2715 is in McCarren Market Place, Las Vegas. (Big Martin)
2716: The Chesapeake & Ohio 2716 is a 2-8-4 steam locomotive that was built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. (Strawberry)
2717: Among all the shapes you can get by sticking 9 regular hexagons together (edge to edge), 2717 of them tile the plane by 180-degree rotation. (WordLover)
2718: Soo Line 2718 is a Pacific class 4-6-2 steam locomotive that was originally owned by the Minneapolis, St. Paul And Sault Ste. Marie Railway ("Soo Line"), but operated by their subsidiary, the Wisconsin Central Railway. (Strawberry)
2719: 2719 Suzhou is an asteroid discovered in September 1965. (Big Martin)
2720: There are 2720 ways to arrange the numbers 1,...,19 in a line so that any two numbers in neighbouring places differ by 2 or by 3. (WordLover)
2721: The GWR 2721 Class was a class of 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives. They were designed by William Dean and built at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway between 1897 and 1901. (Strawberry)
2722: Imperial War Museum catalogue number FL2722 is a photograph of the HMCS Bowmanville, a corvette of the Castle class, she was formerly HMS Nunney Castle before entering Canadian service. (Big Martin)
2723: There are 2723 sequences of integers (a, b, c) where a, b, c and abc are all in the range -13 to 13 inclusive. (WordLover)
2724: USS Zuiderdijk (Id. No. 2724) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. (Strawberry)
2725: The Triumph-Adler DCC 2725 is a an office colour printing, scanning and copying system. (AlmondFacialBar)
2726: There are 2726 pentagrams in the 8th generation of the pentagram fractal shown in this document. (WordLover)
2727: Sesame Street episode 2727 originally aired on 17th April, 1990, and contains a segment about Sherlock Hemlock and a phonebooth. (AlmondFacialBar)
2728: 2728 = 744 + 1984. Why's that interesting? 27282 = 7441984. (WordLover)
2729: Dewey Decimal category 272.9 concerns itself with Christian martyrdom. (AlmondFacialBar)
2730: The Nokia 2730 classic is a Nokia Quad-band GSM/UMTS 3G cell phone that includes a camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, music and video player, as well as several internet-based applications. (Ed.)
2731: There are 2731 ways to tie a tie into a knot with 15 turns, if ways which are mirror-images of each other are counted as the same. And if the tie is long enough for 15 turns! (WordLover)
2732: Hill 2732 on Hill Bagging (the online database of British and Irish Hills) is The Calf in the Yorkshire Dales. (Big Martin)
2733: The Mercedes-Benz Zetros 2733 is an off-road truck for extreme operations. It was first presented at the 2008 Eurosatory defence industry trade show in Paris. The Zetros is manufactured at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth, Germany. The truck is designed to be compatible with the Hercules C-130 transport and also fits into a standard German railway carriage. (bemahan)
2734: The Geological Survey of Canada's open file 2734 concerns itself with boreholes in Winnipeg and Grand Rapids, MB. (AlmondFacialBar)
2735: Questionable Content Number 2735 is called Unmitigated Harassment. (Strawberry)
2736: LEGO Part 2736 - Technic Axle Towball - appears 629 times in 258 sets. ('yorz)
2737: The British Library catalogue of illuminated manuscripts item Oriental 2737 is a Hebrew Haggadah for Passover made in Castile in the late C13th or early C14th. (Big Martin)
2738: Film 2738 at net-film.ru is a 1957 newsreel of the soviet Ural Mountains. (Strawberry)
2739: UK Statutory Instrument 2739 is the The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. (Big Martin)
2740: One Puddle is a holiday cottage and it's description number 2740 on classic.co.uk. (Strawberry)
2741: The IBM 2741 was a printing computer terminal introduced in 1965. (Strawberry)
2742: 2742 Squadron of the RAF saw service in Europe as an armoured car unit of the RAF Regiment towards the end of WW2. (Big Martin)
2743: Here is a link to Cyanide And Happiness 2743. (Strawberry)
2744: Gaugemaster Controls produce a large valley backscene for model railways that is 2744mm long by 304mm high. (Big Martin)
2745: The Pelican 2745 is a headlight. (Strawberry)
2746: Episode 2746 of The Muppets plot was Grouch Appreciation day. (Awitt)
2747: 2747 Cesk Krumlov is a main belt asteroid, about 33 kilometres in diameter. It was discovered by Czech astronomer Antonin Mrkos at Klet' Observatory on the 19th of February, 1980. Its provisional designation was 1980 DW. (Strawberry)
2748: Rescue and Target Towing Launch 2748 was built for the RAF by Vospers in 1953. The vessel is now on the National Register of Historic Vessels. (Big Martin)
2749: Lady in the Water is review 2749 at twomovies.net. (Strawberry)
2750: The York Pacer 2750 is a foldable treadmill. (Big Martin)
2751: There are 2751 ways to write 21 as the sum of integers that are all different, where different orders count as different ways. (WordLover)
2752: 2752 Wu Chien-Shiung (1965 SP) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on the 20th of September, 1965 by Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking. It was named after noted Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and was the first asteroid to be named after a living scientist. (Strawberry)
2753: The population of this configuration is 2753. Rules: There's a grid of squares. Each may be either black or white. A clock ticks. At tick 0, one square is black and all the other squares are white. For each square, count how many of these 5 squares are black: that square itself and the 4 squares next to it. If 1 of them is black, or if all 5 are black, then (one tick later) that square will be black; otherwise it will be white. The pic is the situation at tick 63. (WordLover)
2754: In Sesame Street, Episode 2754, first aired on November 22 1990, Placido Flamingo performs a new opera about animals. (bemahan)
2755: The John Deere 2755 is an 88 horsepower tractor. (Big Martin)
2756: The basin of Steelpoort River, South Africa, is 2,756 square miles. (Strawberry)
2757: Wagon Lits carriage 2757 was used as part of a pub in Denham for a number of years. Since the pub closed it has been under restoration. (Big Martin)
2758: Entry 2758 in the Strong's Greek bible dictionary is of the word 'kenoó', meaning to empty. (Awitt)
2759: MI9 WW2 escaper list number 2759 was Lt Dennis J Simpson of 1 Para RE Squadron. He was captured at Arnhem and escaped with three others whilst in transit. (Big Martin)
2760: The Nokia 2760 is a clamshell form of Mobile phone released by Nokia in 2007 and manufactured in Hungary. (Strawberry)
2761: The masonic Royal Naval Lodge 2761 was formed in 1899 and meets in Yeovil. (Big Martin)
2762: At 2,762 miles (4,445 km), the Golden State train had the longest route in the United States and second only to the Canadian Pacific Railway's Imperial Limited in North America. (Strawberry)
2763: U+2763 HEAVY HEART EXCLAMATION MARK ORNAMENT was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Dingbats in the Basic Multilingual Plane, and appears like this: ❣ . (bemahan)
2764: Farm to Market Road 2764 (FM 2764) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. The two-lane highway begins at U.S. Route 90 Alternate (US 90A) northwest of Lissie, heads northeast along the boundary line between Colorado and Wharton Counties and ends at FM 1093 in Chesterville. (Strawberry)
2765: Marvelous Light is sermon 2765 from the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit and was delivered by C H Spurgeon on October 26 1879. (Big Martin)
2766: Minuscule 2766 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 147 parchment leaves (19.6 cm by 15.5 cm). Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. (Strawberry)
2767: 2767 is a grade of tool steel. (Big Martin)
2768: NGC 2768 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Ursa Major. (Strawberry)
2769: Between them, 2769 and its 50th multiple contain all the digits from 0-9 once each: 2769 x 50 = 138450. (Ed.)
2770: The Hirsihvila 2770 is a bespoke log home. (Big Martin)
2771: The Quiet Woman is film 2771 at reelstreets.com. (Strawberry)
2772: Phoenix 2772 is a Japanese animated science fiction film. (Big Martin)
2773: Café 2773 is a popular café and restaurant in Glenbrook, New South Wales, in the Blue Mountains of Australia. In July 2015, two dogs raided an animal pen at the café and mauled a number of farmyard pets to death. (Ed.)
2774: In SameGame, there are 2774 winning strings of length 12 when 2 symbols are used. (WordLover)
2775: The 2775th episode of Coronation Street aired on 4th November 1987. In the plot summary, Jack is surprised that Vera wants a female lodger. (JivviWesty)
2776: 2776 is a 2014 musical comedy album. (Strawberry)
2777: Walmart superstore 2777 is in Surprise, Arizona. (Big Martin)
2778: Pixantrone (CrLNN; trade name Pixuvri) is an experimental antineoplastic (anti-cancer drug), an analogue of nitoxantrone with fewer toxic effects on cardiac tissue. It acts as a topoisomerase II poison and intercalating agent. The code name BBR 2778 refers to pixantrone dimaleate, the actual substance commonly used in clinical trials. (Strawberry)
2779: The Green Tee course at Boschenmeer a golf estate has a par of 36 and is 2779m long. (Alfred E Neuman)
2780: The IBM 2780 and the IBM 3780 were devices developed by IBM to perform Remote Job Entry (RJE) functions. They communicated with the mainframe via Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC or Bisync). (Strawberry)
2781: Illuminated manuscript Egerton 2781 is a Book of Hours dating from the mid C14th. (Big Martin)
2782: The number for the Tesco in Kingsworthy, Hampshire is 2782. (Strawberry)
2783: "How to draw a potato is the 2783rd tutorial" on RED GREEN BLUE SKETCH. (JivviWesty)
2784: As of 2000, there were 10, 525 people, 3,873 households, and 2,784 families residing in the parish of Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. (Strawberry)
2785: The UK parliament's early day motion 2785 was concerned with the Beer Duty Escalator. (Big Martin)
2786: Episode 2786 of Sesame Street was shown on the 7th of January, 1991. (Strawberry)
2787: Oberon, New South Wales is in postcode area 2787. (Big Martin)
2788: ISO 2788 was the ISO international standard for monolingual thesauri for information retrieval, first published in 1974 and revised in 1986. The official title of the standard was "Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri". It was withdrawn in 2011 and replaced by ISO 25964-1. (Strawberry)
2789: If you see someone writing 2789 in a TikTok video, comment or bio, it means ‘I’m tired of life’. (Ed.)
2790: Scotlight Direct sell a Paul Neuhaus 2790-55 Womble 5 Light Steel Ceiling Pendant. (Strawberry)
2791: Managing Agency Partners Ltd is Syndicate 2791 at Lloyd's of London. (Big Martin)
2792: This Map of Scotland is numbered 2792. (Strawberry)
2793: Canmore ID 2793 is The Bloody Tuacks on Westray in the Orkneys. (Big Martin)
2794: Walmart Supercentre 2794 is at 777, N Main St, Ephraim, UT 84627. (Strawberry)
2795: There is a gym in Kelso, New South Wales, Australia, called Crossfit 2795. (Awitt)
2796: 2796 is a 'Siphon G' Bogie Milk Churn Van. (Strawberry)
2797: Hazchem UN number 2797 is battery fluid. (Big Martin)
2798: This article about swans is numbered 2798. (Strawberry)
2799: The Old Charm DVD/CD storage cabinet 2799 has space for 80 DVDs or 160 CDs and is available in a number of wood finishes. (Big Martin)
2800: The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp is a twin-row, 18-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine with a displacement of 2,800 in3 (46 L), and is part of the long-lived Wasp family. (Strawberry)

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