Sunday, July 23, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9101-9200

9101: Athens had a population of 9,101 at the time of the 2000 census. That's the one in California, not the Greek capital. (Big Martin)
9102: Executive Order 9102 is a United States presidential executive order creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the US civilian agency responsible for the forced relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. (Brock)
9103: Michelin map 9103 is a laminated street map of Rome. (Big Martin)
9104: Puerto Rico has an area of 9104 square kilometres. (Brock)
9105: In 1992 the net migration of people to Norway was a figure of 9,105. (Big Martin)
9106: At the 2015 general election, Tommy Sheppard won the Edinburgh East constituency for the SNP with a majority of 9106. (Brock)
9107: MiG-21 aircraft 9107 is on display at the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow. (Big Martin)
9108: Gamma Cancri, a star in the northern constellation of Cancer, shines with a luminosity approximately 36 times greater than the Sun at an effective temperature of 9108 kelvin. (Brock)
9109: The stable block to Holnicote House at grid reference SS 9109 4619 is a Grade II listed building. (Big Martin)
9110: The maximum state pension in the UK is £9110 a year. (Brock)
9111: One of the formative albums on my musical tastes, In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) was issued by Island Records in October 1969 as ILPS 9111' (Big Martin)
9112: In March 2023, City Beat in Cincinnati, Ohio advertised 9112 Willow Creek Drive in Deerfield Township as having "a home theater, plenty of space, an indoor sauna and pool, a beautiful backyard and a toilet that can glow in the dark". (Brock)
9113: 9113 is a song by French rapper Zola. (Big Martin)
9114: 9114 is 110110 in base 6. (Brock)
9115: Here are some photos of lithic hammerstone 9115 discovered in Malta and dating to the "Temple Period" between 4,000 and 2,500 BCE. (Big Martin)
9116: In certain fonts, such as the one in this illustration, 9116 is a strobogrammatic number, i.e. appears the same upside-down. (Brock)
9117: 9117 is the street number for this property on Bribie Island, Queensland. (Awitt)
9118: The New York Times of April 4th 1944 celebrated a record of 9,118 aircraft being produced in the USA during March of that year. (Big Martin)
9119: The A9119 is the highest-numbered A-road in Great Britain. It's one of the main routes radiating out of Aberdeen, covering a distance of 4.1 miles as far as Kingswells. (Brock)
9120: 9120 Media is a record company based in Hollywood. (Big Martin)
9121: In 2017-18 there were 9121 recorded instances of hate crime in Greater Manchester. (Brock)
9122: 9122 Records is another record company, but based in India this time. (Big Martin)
9123: According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there were 9123 ear pinback surgeries performed on children in the US under the age of 18 in 2014. (Brock)
9124: Between April 2021 and March 2022 there were approximately 9,124 people receiving or waiting for treatment for mental illness in Norfolk and Waveney. (Big Martin)
9125: There are 9125 Korean War veterans buried at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery. (Brock)
9126: In 2018 Kevin Mayer became the first athlete to break the 9100 score barrier for the decathlon, scoring 9126 points at Decastar in Talence, France. [As of June 2023, this is the world record - Ed.] (Big Martin)
9127: The 9127th meeting of the UN Security Council was held on 8 September 2022. Delegates convened for the third time in three days to discuss the situation in Ukraine, with many questioning the reasoning for the debate and what it could achieve for the millions of civilians suffering under near constant shelling. (Brock)
9128: 9128 is a music streaming service. (Big Martin)
9129: 9129 locomotives of the Russian steam locomotive class O were built between 1890 and 1928. (Brock)
9130: According to a Shelter Scotland article from April 2023, there are 9,130 children in Scotland without a home. (Big Martin)
9131: The B9131 is a "short cut" across east Fife, connecting the A917 in Brownhills to the A917 in Anstruther Easter, with the A917 taking a much longer route via the coast. It actually meets the A917 three times - when it reaches Anstruther, it crosses the A917 before performing a short loop through Cellardyke and terminating on the A917 slightly further east. (Brock)
9132: Torre Agbar in Barcelona has 9,132 square metres of parking. (Big Martin)
9133: 9133 is a prime with all digits odd, and the next three primes (9137, 9151 and 9157) have all digits odd as well. Surprisingly, 9133 is the lowest four-digit prime satisfying these criteria. (Brock)
9134: Douglas A20 aircraft 43-9134 named "Shag On" crashed near the beach at Cape Barabar, Papua New Guinea on February 9th 1945 with the loss of all 3 crew members. (Big Martin)
9135: In a survey of 2258 climate-related scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals between November 2012 and December 2013, James Lawrence Powell found that 9135 out of the 9136 authors accepted that human activity contributed to global warming. The solitary exception was S. V. Avakyan who, writing for the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, concluded that "contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon-containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant". (Brock)
9136: By late February the year, 9,136 aftershocks had been registered from the devastating earthquake in Turkey. (Big Martin)
9137: 9137 is an example of a left-truncatable prime; not only is it prime itself, but if digits are successively removed from the left-hand side, the results are all prime (137, 37, 7). (Brock)
9138: Catalonia hired an extra 9,138 public staff in the first quarter of 2023. (Big Martin)
9139: Cineworld is the world's second-largest cinema chain, with 9139 screens across 747 sites in 10 countries. (Brock)
9140: High or instant explosives are defined as having detonation speeds of between 914 and 9,140 metres per second. (Big Martin)
9141: In February, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff received a $9141 donation from McDonald's restaurants across Central Arkansas to support campus student services programs. (Brock)
9142: Limekiln Crossing in Risca is at Grid Reference ST 2343 9142. (Big Martin)
9143: The 9143rd meeting of the UN Security Council, held on 30 September 2022, considered draft resolution S/2022/720, which (amongst other things) condemned the Russian Federation's organization of illegal so-called referenda in regions within Ukraine's internationally recognized borders. Ten of the 15 members voted for the resolution, with four abstaining, but the resolution was not adopted because Russia exercised its veto. (Brock)
9144: Swildon's Hole, at 9,144 metres in length, is the longest cave system in the Mendips. (Big Martin)
9145: The University of Northampton had 9145 undergraduates in 2019/20. (Brock)
9146: In the 2021 UK census, 9,146 people living outside of Cornwall identified as being Cornish. (Big Martin)
9147: ISIRI 9147 is the Iranian national standard for Persian keyboard layout. (Brock)
9148: '9148' Gin is made in Japan and is apparently aromatic with forward juniper, citrus and a hint of cinnamon. (Big Martin)
9149: The Conservative candidate Beata Brookes came second to Labour at the 1961 Warrington by-election, polling 9149 votes. Despite several attempts to win a seat in the House of Commons, she never succeeded, though she served for ten years in the European Parliament representing North Wales. (Brock)
9150: Bridgeman Images sell an 1885 Illustrated London News picture of the 9,150 ton battleship HMS Collingwood from £20 to £50 depending on intended use. (Big Martin)
9151: There were 9151 British privateering vessels participating in the various conflicts from 1739 until 1815. (Brock)
9152: In 2015, there were 9,152 illiterate people in Cyprus. (Big Martin)
9153: The decimal digits of 9153 times its successor are a permutation of the digits of 9153 times its predecessor:
9153 x 9154 = 83786562
9153 x 9152 = 83768256 (Brock)
9154: Norfolk Island is 9,154 miles from St. Lucia. (Big Martin)
9155: The B9155 is a short route to the north of Dunfermline. It starts in an area called Rumblingwell. (Brock)
9156: On December 29th 2015, grain train 9156 was derailed at Ouyen in Victoria, Australia due to rail creep, closing the line for 5 days. (Big Martin)
9157: House of Commons briefing paper CBP-9157 is entitled After Brexit: Visiting, working and living in the EU. (Brock)
9158: Hunslet loco 9158/87 is a Channel Tunnel Rack Loco built for the construction of the tunnel. (Big Martin)
9159: The diapsids are traditionally classified based on their two ancestral skull openings. At least 17,084 species of diapsid animals are extant, including 9159 birds. (Brock)
9160: Habitat Code H9160 covers sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the Carpinion betuli. In the UK, these are restricted to south-east England. (Big Martin)
9161: Street lighting at the notorious A9/B9161 Munlochy junction accident black spot was welcomed in May 2022 by the Black Isle MSP Kate Forbes. (Brock)
9162: The record price for an artwork by Karl Eulenstein is $9,162. (Big Martin)
9163: The National Service Training Program was instituted by the Government of the Philippines on July 23, 2001, by virtue of Republic Act 9163. It obliges all students on baccalaureate degree or technical vocational courses to attend two semesters of one of three training programmes: the Civic Welfare Training Service, the Literacy Training Service or the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It was passed after the death of Mark Chua, which was widely believed to be linked to his exposé of alleged irregularities in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit of the University of Santo Tomas. Previously, participation in the ROTC had been compulsory for all male college students. (Brock)
9164: The Ultra Trail Mount Fuji course has a total elevation gain of 9,164 metres. (Big Martin)
9165: Bull's-Hit Ranch and Farm is at 9165 Old Hastings Rd, Hastings, Florida, United States. (I assume they chose that name for a reason!) (Brock)
9166: Unfortunately, DSM 9166 - Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis, which was isolated from the skin slime of a pufferfish - can't be exported from Germany due to their war weapons control act. (Big Martin)
9167: Item number 9167 on quiet.ly is a list of real people played by Benedict Cumberbatch. (Brock)
9168: 18 pounder field gun 9168 was acquired by the Irish government from the departing British forces after independence and was used during the 1922-23 Irish Civil War. It was subsequently sold after WW2 and rediscovered in Virginia in 2016. It has been restored and is now on display at the National Museum of Ireland. (Big Martin)
9169: In 2001 there were 9169 casualties caused by landmines. (Brock)
9170: Science Direct has a 2012 article A 9170-year record of decadal-to-multi-centennial scale pluvial episodes in the coastal Southwest United States: a role for atmospheric rivers? (Big Martin)
9171: The sum of the first 9171 digits of pi (including the initial 3) is equal to the sum of the first 9171 digits of e (including the initial 2), namely 41294. (Brock)
9172: Irish bog oak sample Q9172 appears to have a scar dating to 2534 BCE. (Big Martin)
9173: There were 9173 approved and available permits for drilling for oil on US federal land at the end of 2021. (Brock)
9174: Exoplanet HD 9174 b is a gas giant a little larger than Jupiter that was discovered in 2016. (Big Martin)
9175: The English first-class cricketer Arthur Jaques bowled 9175 balls before being killed in action in September 1915. (Brock)
9176: At the time of the 2001 census, the population of Yatton was 9,176. (Big Martin)
9177: The B9177 is the former route of the A9 as it descends Drumossie Brae into Inverness from the south. (Brock)
9178: Cold Benchmark and Pistol Rock are both in Idaho and both have an elevation of 9,178 feet. (Big Martin)
9179: Minor planet 9179 is named Satchmo, the nickname of the jazz musician Louis Armstrong. (Brock)
9180: HMS Enterprise saved 9,180 lives on her last deployment. (Big Martin)
9181: According to IMDb, 9181 films were shot partly or totally in black and white between 1975 and 2021. (Brock)
9182: Here is a photograph of Hawker Hurricane W9182 mounted on a CAM ship docked in Algiers during WW2. (Big Martin)
9183: There are 9183 sets of positive integers with arithmetic mean 8. In other words, there are 9183 sets of positive integers with k members that sum to 8k. The largest one is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}, summing to 120. (Brock)
9184: 9184 is the product code for this 'punch for Kingsland Iron Worker'. (Awitt)
9185: Puerto Rico Highway 9185 is a bypass road that branches off from PR-185 in Gurabo Abajo and ends at PR-31 in Ceiba Norte. (Brock)
9186: The One Call Stadium (or Field Mill) in Mansfield has a capacity of 9,186 people. (Big Martin)
9187: During the whole of 2008, the daily and Saturday Times newspapers carried 313 crosswords with a total of 9187 clues (an average of 29.35 per puzzle). (Brock)
9188: Softwood production in Scotland peaked at 9,188 metres of overbark in 2019. (Big Martin)
9189: A decomino is a polyomino of order 10, i.e. a polygon in the plane made of 10 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. When reflections are considered distinct, there are 9189 one-sided decominoes. (Brock)
9190: In 2023, around 9,190 people in the USA will be diagnosed with testicular cancer. (Big Martin)
9191: Project 9191 is an Indian crime thriller web series that was premiered on 26 March 2021 on SonyLIV. (Brock)
9192: 9192 Studio is a 3D visualisation studio based in Katowice, Poland. (Big Martin)
9193: In the year ending March 2019 there were 9193 positive random drug tests in prisons in England and Wales (16.9% of all tests taken). (Brock)
9194: Traces of War sight 9194 is bomb damage on St. Nicholas Church in Bristol. Almost opposite the office I first worked at and still visible from the office we moved to later. (Big Martin)
9195: In the Eilean Siar (Western Isles) council area in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Yes polled 9195 votes against 10,544 for No. (Brock)
9196: The 9196 Café is in Jakarta. (Big Martin)
9197: On April 7 2021 during the Northern Ireland riots, Belfast Metro bus SFZ 9197 was hijacked and set alight by sectarian rioters at the junction of Lanark Way and Shankill Road. (Brock)
9198: 9,198 people ran the Vitality Westminster Mile in 2019. (Big Martin)
9199: The Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset displays a Mark V Male, Number 9199, one of only two British World War I tanks still in working order. (Brock)
9200: According to a report by Sun Life the average cost of dying rose by 3.8% from 2021 to £9,200 in 2022. (Big Martin)

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