Sunday, July 23, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9301-9400

9301: The geographic South Pole is 9301 feet above sea level. (Brock)
9302: At the time of the 2001 census, 9,302 people born in Singapore were living in London. (Big Martin)
9303: ICAO document 9303 sets out the standards for machine-readable passports. (Brock)
9304: Clement Cecil Farnik Estate Collection photo 9304 is of the second of three Bristol Braemar aircraft built just after WW1. (Big Martin)
9305: Minor planet 9305 is named Hazard, not because anyone's likely to crash into it, but after Cyril Hazard (born 1928), a British radio astronomer. (Brock)
9306: The driving distance from Malaysia to Wales is 9,306 miles. (Big Martin)
9307: In 2017/18, there were 9307 admissions to English hospitals where malnutrition was a main or secondary factor. (Brock)
9308: The Torca River in Colombia originates in the Eastern Hills of Bogota at an altitude of 9,308 feet. (Big Martin)
9309: There were 9309 sales of houses worth £1 million or more in London in 2018. (Brock)
9310: 9310 Alloy Steel is largely used for aircraft parts. (Big Martin)
9311: 9311 is a circular prime; not only is it prime itself, but all cyclic permutations of its digits are prime (3119, 1193 and 1931). (Brock)
9312: Westland Lysander V9312 is the only British-built example of this type of aircraft still in airworthy condition. (Big Martin)
9313: Ohta No.3 Dam, in Hyogo Prefecture in Japan, can store 9313 thousand cubic metres of water. (Brock)
9314: Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina has a capacity of 9,314 people. (Big Martin)
9315: By the end of 1938, 9315 television sets had been sold in England. (Brock)
9316: The Vietnam People's Navy ship Yet Kieu is a multipurpose submarine search-and-rescue ship licence built to the Damen 9316 design. (Big Martin)
9317: Command Paper Cm 9317, dated September 2016, is entitled A copy of the Draft Royal Charter for the continuance of the British Broadcasting Corporation. (Link) (Brock)
9318: In 2013, Raul Fernando Gomez Circunegui was found in a shelter at 9,318 feet above sea level after having been lost in the Andes for 4 months. (Big Martin)
9319: In Ireland in the first eight months of 2019, 9319 calls were made to the Health Service Executive's unplanned pregnancy helpline. (Brock)
9320: The 93:20 Lounge is available at Manchester City's stadium. (Big Martin)
9321: In 1946 there were 9321 Seventh-Day Adventist churches throughout the world. (Brock)
9322: Commons Briefing Paper CBP-9322 is on roads and vehicle regulation FAQs. (Big Martin)
9323: The decimal expansion of pi starts 3.14159265358979323... . If you split this sequence of digits up into a sequence of primes that are contiguous, the smallest possible and distinct, you get 3, 14159, 2, 653, 5, 89, 7, 9323, ... . The next member of the sequence is 3057 digits long. (Brock)
9324: A recent study of 9,324 people with dementia by the University of Exeter showed the benefit of community care. (Big Martin)
9325: Minor planet 9325 is named after Stonehenge. One lump of rock named after another. (Brock)
9326: Uffizi Gallery object 1890 n. 9326 is a Russian icon entitled The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. (Big Martin)
9327: The Cheltenham and District Light Railway operated an electric tramway service in Cheltenham between 1901 and 1930. Its depot was located at grid reference SO 9327 2239, 300 metres north of Cheltenham Spa railway station. (Brock)
9328: A Tuscan-inspired 9,328 square foot mansion in Las Vegas is available for a mere $9.9 million. (Big Martin)
9329: There were 9329 reported cases of fire accidents in India in 2020. (Brock)
9330: It has been estimated that 9,330 people were killed in traffic accidents in the USA in the first quarter of 2023. (Big Martin)
9331: There were 9331 marriages in Scotland in the second quarter of 2022. (Brock)
9332: Ex-LMS "Black 5" locomotive (4)5491 was built at Derby Works in 1943 at a cost of £9,332. It is currently being rebuilt for the Great Central Railway. (Big Martin)
9333: At its peak, during World War Two, there were 9333 Women's Institute groups in the UK. (Brock)
9334: The wreck of HMS Hood, sunk by the Bismarck, lies at a depth of 9,334 feet in the Denmark Strait. (Big Martin)
9335: The Panorama of the City of New York, at the Queens Museum in the city, is a 9335-square-foot model including every single building constructed before 1992 in all five boroughs, at a scale of 1:1200. (Brock)
9336: Ryanair flight FR9336 flies between Bristol and Girona and is scheduled to leave at 19.05 this evening. (Big Martin)
9337: New Future was a Eurosceptic political party in Sweden, formed in 1994, which gained 9337 votes at the 2002 parliamentary elections. It has not campaigned in any elections since 2006. (Brock)
9338: Rock Port in Missouri is the 9,338th largest city in the USA. (Big Martin)
9339: 9339 is palindromic not only in base 10 (unsurprisingly) but also in base 25. Its value might be written as ENE, where E = 14 (decimal) and N = 23 (decimal). (Brock)
9340: In 2017, Indian Railways planned to eliminate 6,352 unmanned level crossings out of a total of 9,340 in an attempt to reduce accidents. (Big Martin)
9341: The Museum of Jurassic Technology is at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California. Its exhibits appear to be unrelated to either the Jurassic or technology, including things like "The Garden of Eden on Wheels: Collections from Los Angeles Area Trailer Parks" and "Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay". (Brock)
9342: The 1878 Bristol by-election was won by Liberal candidate Lewis Fry with 9,342 votes. (Big Martin)
9343: In December 2013 there were 9343 active betting shop premise licences in England. (Brock)
9344: The Atico Mining Corp. registers an annual production of 9,344 tons of copper. (Big Martin)
9345: The University of St Andrews had 9345 undergraduates in 2021/22. (Brock)
9346: There are 9,346 acres of government land at Summersville Lake in West Virginia. (Big Martin)
9347: Wind power is the fastest-growing renewable energy technology in Scotland, with 9347 megawatts of installed wind power capacity as of June 2020. (Brock)
9348: In 1815, as a result of one of the most powerful eruptions of the past 10,000 years, Mount Tambora in Indonesia went from being around 14,000 feet high down to 9,348 feet. (Big Martin)
9349: In April 2020 there were 9349 motorists on UK roads who had accrued 12 or more penalty points but had not been disqualified from driving. (Brock)
9350: With an elevation of 9,350 feet, Quito is the highest official capital city in the world. (Big Martin)
9351: Here's a video of GWR 9300 2-6-0 Mogul No. 9351 at Minehead station on the West Somerset Railway. 9351 is a unique locomotive, as it was originally built as GWR Large Prairie No. 5193, but converted into a 9300 Class Mogul in the early 2000s. (Brock)
9352: Lacaille 9352 is a red dwarf star in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus. (Big Martin)
9353: 9353 is a juggling manoeuvre - an "asymmetrical 5 object siteswap", as demonstrated in the animation. (Brock)
9354: Science Photo Library's image C033/9354 is of the bus stop chromodoris nudibranch. (Big Martin)
9355: Eta Delphini is a candidate astrometric binary star system in the northern constellation of Delphinus, radiating 35 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of around 9355 kelvin. (Brock)
9356: The Union Pacific's engine 9356 was the first Dash 8-40CW locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems. (Big Martin)
9357: Katekavia Flight 9357 was an Antonov An-24 regional aircraft on a domestic flight from Krasnoyarsk to Igarka in Russia that crashed on final approach in fog in the early hours of 3 August 2010, killing twelve out of the fifteen people on board. (Brock)
9358: Flying Officer Hardiman was the 9,358th Australian to die in WW2. (Big Martin)
9359: Here's a list of numbers k such that either k or k+1 is divisible by the numbers from 1 to 10. 9359 qualifies because 9359 is divisible by 7, and 9360 is divisible by all the rest of them. (Brock)
9360: The Russian-built VL85 class railway locomotive has a continuous power output rating of 9,360 kilowatts. (Big Martin)
9361: Tamoios Ecological Station, a coastal marine ecological station in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has an area of 9361 hectares. (Brock)
9362: ISO 9362 is the standard for Business Identifier Codes. (Big Martin)
9363: Economy, Pennsylvania was established in 1825 by a Harmonist society, and named to indicate the principles of their government and their habits of living. At the 2000 census it had a population of 9363. (Brock)
9364: On August 21st 2015 a gunman on board of Thalys train 9364, en route from Amsterdam to Paris, attacked 3 people before being overpowered by passengers. (Big Martin)
9365: In 2018, 9365 free-roaming hogs were killed by the Missouri Department of Conservation, by agencies partnering with MDC and by private landowners. (Brock)
9366: 9366 is the code for Sanritsu Corporation on the Tokyo stock exchange. (Awitt)
9367: In 2012 there were 9367 confirmed cases of whooping-cough in England. (Brock)
9368: The motor tanker Telena was carrying 9,368 tons of crude oil when attacked by U-37 on May 29th 1940. (Big Martin)
9369: As of 31 December 2017, there were 9369 taxis licensed in Dublin, accounting for 60% of taxis across Ireland. (Brock)
9370: The glass roofed hall of the Grand Palais des Champs Elysees is supported by 9,370 tons of green painted steel. (Big Martin)
9371: 9371 is one of the grades of Chun Mee tea, along with 41022, 4011, 8147, 9367, 9366, 3008 and 3009. The significance of these numbers is unclear, except that 41022 is regarded as the best quality and 8147 consists of broken leaves. (Although this article lists the grades in order of quality as 41022, 9371, 9370, 9369, 9368, 9367, 9366 and 9380.) (Brock)
9372: The Meadow Ballroom at Hilton Nashville has an area of 9,372 square feet. (Big Martin)
9373: The Tre Cime di Lavaredo are three peaks in the Sexten Dolomites of northeastern Italy. The smallest, known as the Cima Piccola, has an elevation of 9373 feet. (Brock)
9374: Geograph's photo for grid square TQ9374 is of the Ship on Shore pub in Sheerness. (Big Martin)
9375: 9375 is the unique 4-digit number with all digits odd that is divisible by 54; specifically, it's 3 x 54. (Brock)
9376: The nearest embassy of St Vincent and the Grenadines to Reunion is in Washington DC - some 9,376 miles away. (Big Martin)
9377: Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, orbits with a semi-major axis of 9377 km. (Brock)
9378: In October 2019, MIT Medical broke the previous one-day flu-shot record, with at least 9,378 people on campus receiving vaccinations. (Big Martin)
9379: At the end of the first quarter of 2011, there were 9379 Domino's outlets in the United States. (Brock)
9380: The 9380 Tavern is in Crested Butte, Colorado. (Big Martin)
9381: 9381 thoroughbred foal births were registered in Ireland in 2016. (Brock)
9382: According to this article, Matt LeBlanc bought a jeroboam of champagne at a London club for the equivalent of $9,382 whilst on a night out with friends in 2011. (Big Martin)
9383: At 9383 feet, the town of Lukla in north-eastern Nepal is a popular place for visitors to the Himalayas near Mount Everest to arrive. (Brock)
9384: Bruiser 9384 was the codename given to a target drone destroyed by a missile from HMS Defender during an naval exercise off the Outer Hebrides earlier this year. (Big Martin)
9385: The 9385-metre-long Katzenberg Tunnel on the Rhine Valley Railway is the longest twin-bore tunnel in Germany. (Brock)
9386: Hartlepool covers an area of 9,386 hectares. (Big Martin)
9387: Minor planet 9387 is named Tweedledee after the character in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. Curiously, "Tweedledum" doesn't appear until 17681. (Brock)
9388: The Normandy American Cemetery contains 9,388 burials. (Big Martin)
9389: It is presumed that the Echternach Gospels were produced at Lindisfarne Abbey in Northumbria around the year 690. They are now in the collection of France's Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris as MS. lat. 9389. (Brock)
9390: Fittingly, the Center for Autism and Related Disorders is at 9390 Research Boulevard in Austin, Texas. (Big Martin)
9391: UGC 9391 is a Magellanic spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco. (Brock)
9392: The temperature of the inner core of the Earth is estimated to be around 9,392 degrees Fahrenheit. (Big Martin)
9393: 9393 is a sphenic number (the product of three distinct primes): 9393 = 3 x 31 x 101. Its reversal is another sphenic number: 3939 = 3 x 13 x 101. Note in particular that the prime factors of 3939 are respectively the reversals of the prime factors of 9393. (Brock)
9394: Healthcare students at UWE in Bristol can receive a maintenance loan of up to £9,394 a year, if living with their parents. (Big Martin)
9395: The American company Rivian Automotive produced 9395 electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2023. (Brock)
9396: The first functional prosthetic arm made from Lego included parts from the helicopter set number 9396. (Big Martin)
9397: In 1901 there were 9397 men employed in industry in Dublin (printing, engineering, clothing, furnishing and leather tanning). (Brock)
9398: Ashrita Furman is a multiple world record holder, including mountain climbing on stilts with a height achieved of 9,398 feet. (Big Martin)
9399: The Rapa Nui language is spoken on Easter Island, a special territory of Chile otherwise known as Rapa Nui. According to 2017 census data, there are 9399 people (on both the island and the Chilean mainland) who identify as ethnically Rapa Nui, although in 2008 the number of fluent speakers was said to be as low as 800. (Brock)
9400: GWR pannier tank locomotive 9400 was one of the last locomotives built at Swindon works prior to nationalisation. It was one of the engines chosen for the National Collection and is now at the Steam museum in Swindon. (Big Martin)

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