Sunday, July 23, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9001-9100

9001: 9001 Record Collector Dreams is a book about the rarest 60's, 70's and 80's LP covers. (Big Martin)
9002: In 1977 there were 9002 accidents at or within 20 yards of a roundabout, of which 62 involved fatalities and a further 1642 involved serious personal injury. (Brock)
9003: The course of Santo da Serra Golf Club on Madeira has 27 holes and is 9,003 metres long. (Big Martin)
9004: It's important to know the difference between the 9004 and 9007 headlight bulbs because they are very similar. Thankfully, this article explains it. (Brock)
9005: Ral9005 is a 2002 album by Tiefschwarz. RAL 9005 paint is jet black. (Big Martin)
9006: 9006 is a strobogrammatic number (appears the same upside-down). Wikipedia comments that "although amateur aficionados of mathematics are quite interested in this concept, professional mathematicians generally are not". (Brock)
9007: BR Deltic locomotive D9007 was named Pinza. (Big Martin)
9008: To many people, Glenlivet is just a type of malt whisky; however there's a real place of that name, on the route of the B9008, a cross-country road in south Banffshire, running from Tomintoul to Bridge of Avon. Unfortunately you can't see the distillery from the road as it's hidden behind trees. (Brock)
9009: Ballmastrz: 9009 is an adult animated TV series. (Big Martin)
9010: Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand, is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest residential street in the world, with an average gradient of 1:3.41. It's of interest here because it falls in postcode area 9010. (Brock)
9011: The French navy's amphibious assault ship Foudre bore the pennant number L9011. (Big Martin)
9012: 9012Live is a 1985 concert film featuring the English rock band Yes. There was a companion album entitled 9012Live: The Solos. (Brock)
9013: LCA 9013 is a City & Guilds legionella course. (Big Martin)
9014: There were 9014 (out of around 500,000) calls to the ambulance service from 6802 people for mental health emergencies in Scotland during 2011. (Brock)
9015: Bristol City Council document 9015 is the agenda and minutes of a meeting of the Bristol Schools Forum in 2021. (Big Martin)
9016: A perfect squared rectangle (or perfect rectangle) is one that can be built up out of squares of all different sizes. If it doesn't contain a smaller squared rectangle, it's called a simple perfect squared rectangle. The number of squares needed to build the rectangle is called the order of the rectangle. There are 9016 simple perfect squared rectangles of order 16 (up to symmetry). (Brock)
9017: Ex-GWR locomotive 9017 was part of the so-called "Dukedog" class - the engines having been built from the frames of "Bulldog" class locos and the boilers from "Duke" class locos in the 1930s. It is now preserved on the Bluebell Railway bearing the name "Earl of Berkeley". (Big Martin)
9018: The B9018 is a cross-country road in north Banffshire, starting at the top of the town in Cullen and ending on the A95 a couple of miles east of Keith. (Brock)
9019: The Society of the 9019 was founded as the first honor society at Trinity College in North Carolina in 1890. (Big Martin)
9020: The IBM 9020 was an IBM System/360 computer adapted into a multiprocessor system for use by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for Air Traffic Control. (Brock)
9021: The Mazargues War Cemetery in Marseilles covers an area of 9,021 square metres. (Big Martin)
9022: Discoverer 30, also known as Corona 9022, was an American optical reconnaissance satellite which was launched in 1961. (Brock)
9023: 9023 is a short film made in Greece in 2017. (Big Martin)
9024: YU 9024 is the specimen name of a gigantic cervical vertebra of what appears to be the Jurassic diplodocoid Barosaurus. It was formerly assigned to the type Supersaurus. (Brock)
9025: In 2021 Nova Scotia welcomed a record breaking number of 9,025 new permanent residents. (Big Martin)
9026: In 2001 the Czech decathlete Roman Ć ebrle became the first ever to achieve over 9000 points, setting the record at 9026 points. (Brock)
9027: 9027 KM is a track on the OK Go album "Oh No" which comprises of 34+ minutes of the odd bit of ambient noise. (Big Martin)
9028: There are 9028 tilings of a 9 x 4 rectangle using integer-sided square tiles. (Brock)
9029: Zvezda product 9029 is a 1/350 scale model of the Imperial Russian battleship "Oriol". A strange rendition of the name, as the ship is usually referred to in English as the "Orel". (Big Martin)
9030: In January this year, a squirrel caused a power outage that affected 9030 customers of BC Hydro in North Vancouver, Canada. (Brock)
9031: There were 9031 alcohol-related deaths in the UK in 2008. (Ed.)
9032: The route of the B9032 in northeast Aberdeenshire is from Coburty to Rathen via Memsie. (Brock)
9033: Eurotunnel Class 9 locomotive 9033 is named Monserrat Caballe to fit the "opera singer" names theme used for several of the class. (Big Martin)
9034: As of March 15 this year, the voters' list on the Turks and Caicos Islands stood at 9034 electors - approximately 20 per cent of the country's population. (Seems rather low to me.) (Brock)
9035: 9,035 people were supported the West Auckland 2022 Christmas From The Heart charity. (Big Martin)
9036: In May 2021 there were 9036 active gambling premises in the UK - a fall of 11% from March 2020. (Brock)
9037: In April 2006, US Marshals arrested 9,037 fugitives in a 27-state dragnet operation. (Big Martin)
9038: HR 9038 is a triple star system located thirty-five light-years away, in the constellation Cepheus. (Brock)
9039: On March 6th this year 3 people were taken to hospital following a 4-car crash on the B9039 near Inverness Airport. (Big Martin)
9040: Here is a video of Union Pacific 9040 leading a train in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Brock)
9041: Bristol Bolingbroke 9041 was supplied to the RCAF in 1941 and was reported as being worked on to display as a static exhibit in 2002. (Big Martin)
9042: In Brunei between January and June 2021, some 9042 traffic offences were recorded during 478 static roadblock operations and eight joint operations with other agencies. (Brock)
9043: Human gene 9043 is sperm associated antigen 9 or SPAG9. (Big Martin)
9044: As of December 2015 there were 9044 Austrians in Hungary. (Brock)
9045: 9045 Real Estate GmbH is based in Bavaria. (Big Martin)
9046: From one of the more esoteric lists on OEIS, 9046 has an "a" in the middle of its name in Spanish: nueve mil cuarenta y seis. (Brock)
9047: In October 2017, Avon and Somerset Constabulary recorded 9,047 crimes in its area. (Big Martin)
9048: The Scottish tour arrives in Orkney for the B9048, a short spur from the B9047 at Lyness on Hoy to the Flotta & Hoy Ferry Pier. (The original road with this number was only about 150m long.) (Brock)
9049: Location Department location 9049 is at Saddle River, New Jersey. (Big Martin)
9050: Clapton FC chief executive Vince McBean paid himself a salary of £9050 per week in cash while he was director of a charity for the homeless in the early 2000s. (Brock)
9051: UK government health certificate 9051 is required to export anteaters to Germany. (Big Martin)
9052: The population of Mound, Minnesota in 2010 was 9052. Tonka toy trucks were invented there - they were named after Lake Minnetonka, which the eastern part of the town sits on. (Brock)
9053: 9053 is the product code for this wallpaper. (Awitt)
9054: The boiling point of osmium is 9054 degrees Fahrenheit. (Brock)
9055: GWR Nondescript Saloon carriage 9055 was built in 1912 to a design by George Jackson Churchward and is now on the Severn Valley Railway. (Big Martin)
9056: 9056 = 133 + 193. (Brock)
9057: Astronaut photo ISS002-E-9057 is of the Bristol Channel area from 378 km. (Big Martin)
9058: The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Karachi performed 9058 primary angioplasties from May 2015 to August 2017. (Brock)
9059: Bristol Bolingbroke 9059 is now at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum in Brandon. Manitoba. (Big Martin)
9060: It is estimated that 9060 square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest were lost to wildfires in 2019. (Brock)
9061: The 2018 order book for the Ferretti Group comprised 9,061 feet of super- and mega-yachts. (Big Martin)
9062: 9062 was the number of the cabin occupied by George Smith, an American man who disappeared overboard from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005 under suspicious circumstances. (Brock)
9063: The UNFCCC project 9063 is the Macaubas Landfill Gas Project. (Big Martin)
9064: In the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh this month, 9064 students have been selected for free education in private schools in the first phase of a scheme under the Right to Education Act. (Brock)
9065: In a 1996 study into malaria in Egypt, 9,065 blood slides taken from people in Faiyoum were examined. (Big Martin)
9066: Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor, authorising the removal of Japanese-American citizens to holding camps. (jaygeemack)
9067: In 2011 there were 9067 betting premises licences in the UK. (Brock)
9068: The highest paved pass in the Alps is the Col de l'Iseran with an elevation of 9,068 feet. (Big Martin)
9069: The B9069 is the longest of the three classified roads on Sanday in Orkney's Northern Isles, running from Kettletoft to Saltess. (Brock)
9070: Of 83 house sales analysed in the London N20 8 area in 2021 and 2022, half were sold at a figure of £6,970 to £9,070 per square metre. (Big Martin)
9071: Between 2005 and 2007 there were 9071 road accidents involving bicycles within London. (Brock)
9072: This hydraulic winch has a straight-line pull capacity of 9,072 kg. (Big Martin)
9073: According to Ping An Insurance, in China, growing old has come to be associated with the digits 9073, which describe the government's senior-care model. This model aims for 90 per cent of the elderly to be cared for at home, 7 per cent in community care and just 3 per cent in elderly-living institutions. (Brock)
9074: The Iowa Lions Eye Bank article about recent successful operations in Eswatini is entitled "9,074 Miles to Miracles". (Big Martin)
9075: 9075 = 112 + 552 + 772. What's particularly interesting about this is that the three squares above are in arithmetic progression: 121, 3025 and 5929 (the constant difference being 2904). You can find a list of such triples here. (Brock)
9076: 9076 are the first four digits of the phone number one of Melbourne's major city hospitals. (Awitt)
9077: The record attendance at Glanford Park, the ground of National League team Scunthorpe United, was 9077 for a Football League Cup Third Round tie against Manchester United on 22 September 2010. (Brock)
9078: Douglas DC4 registration 44-9078 crashed off Amalfi on June 1st 1946 following a cockpit fire. (Big Martin)
9079: Up to Shetland now for the B9079, running from Eela Water to Ollaberry. (Brock)
9080: Apparently the TikTok code 9080 means "I want you with me". (Big Martin)
9081: The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, United States, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard. (Brock)
9082: 9082 is a short bus route in Sydney, Australia. (Awitt)
9083: Hawksworth First Class Sleeping Car 9083 was built in 1951 and is now on static display at Didcot Railway Centre. (Big Martin)
9084: In 2018, the Allegra World Coffee Portal estimated that there were 9084 coffee shops in the Middle East. (Brock)
9085: At the time of the 2004 census, Sidi Borja in Morocco had a population of 9,085 people. (Big Martin)
9086: The Veiled Society is an adventure module for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published in 1984. Its product designation is TSR 9086. (Brock)
9087: The Migraine Trust's March for Migraine this year raised £9,087. (Big Martin)
9088: As mentioned above, the record attendance at Scunthorpe United's ground Glanford Park was 9077, just 11 short of its maximum capacity of 9088. (Brock)
9089: In April this year, 9,089 Vietnamese fishing vessels were operating in the South China Sea. (Big Martin)
9090: Radio 9090 is an Egyptian online radio station. (Brock)
9091: Reservoir No. 5 in Gibraltar was excavated between 1911 and 1914 and had a capacity of 9,091 cubic metres. (Big Martin)
9092: The last palindromic date in DD/MM/YYYY format before the year 10000 is Sep 29 9092 (29/09/9092). (Brock)
9093: The catamaran landing ship L 9093 is operated by the French Navy. (Big Martin)
9094: There were 9094 locations of the Blockbuster video rental chain worldwide at its peak. (Brock)
9095: The Manakamana Cable Car system in Chitwan, Nepal is 9095 feet long. (Ed.)
9096: 909619 is the least 19th power that has 19 digits equal to 9. (Brock)
9097: Prescott Point Trail 9097 in Arizona is 0.7 miles long. (Big Martin)
9098: Mount Nirvana is the unofficial name of the highest mountain in the Northwest Territories of Canada, standing at 9098 feet. Currently the Canadian government is working to officially recognize the name "Thunder Mountain". (Brock)
9099: Genoa is 9,099 kilometres from Bogota. (Big Martin)
9100: The B9100 is a short link road in Montrose, which according to SABRE (the Society of all British and Irish Road Enthusiasts) is "a mere shadow of its former self, and that was never much of any importance". (Brock)

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The Quite Incredible Number List: 9001-9100

9001 : 9001 Record Collector Dreams is a book about the rarest 60's, 70's and 80's LP covers. ( Big Martin ) 9002 : In 1977 the...