Sunday, July 23, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 9401-9500

9401: On April Fool's Day 2023, the Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 9401, entitled "The Addition of the Death (DTH) Flag to TCP". (Brock)
9402: Orchard Dump Cemetery near Arras covers 9,402 square metres. (Big Martin)
9403: The population of Sheffield in 2020 was 9403 - that's Sheffield, Alabama. (Brock)
9404: In the first quarter of this year Vietnam imported 9,404 tons of black pepper. (Big Martin)
9405: The population of Northampton in 2000 was 9405. Yes, you've guessed it - Northampton, Pennsylvania! (Brock)
9406: 9406 Lloydcrest Drive in Beverly Hills can be yours for a little under 13 million dollars. (Big Martin)
9407: The Mondopoint shoe length system, widely used in the sports industry to size athletic shoes, ski boots, skates, and pointe ballet shoes, is governed by ISO standard 9407:2019. (Brock)
9408: When the Ariane 5 rocket, launched in April 2008, reached the desired altitude of 588 kilometres it was travelling at 9,408 metres per second. (Big Martin)
9409: 9409 = 972. Not only is it a square, but its digits are all squares - the highest four-digit square with this property. (Brock)
9410: Eurostar train 9410 was derailed near Bari in Italy on October 24th 2005 following heavy rain storms that caused a landslide undermining part of the track whilst the train was crossing. (Big Martin)
9411: 9411 is the postcode of Argentine Antarctica, which consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the South Pole, delimited by the 25° West and 74° West meridians and the 60° South parallel. (This region overlaps with British and Chilean claims in Antarctica.) (Brock)
9412: In 2018 the RNLI rescued 9,412 people. (Big Martin)
9413: The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra is a 1928 American silent experimental short film. It tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a star; he fails and becomes dehumanized, with studio executives reducing him to the role of an extra and writing the number "9413" on his forehead. (Brock)
9414: South Bend is a city in Indiana, United States. Its Director of Graffiti Abatement can be contacted at 574-235-9414. (Strawberry)
9415: In August 1938 the Fascist dictatorship in Italy imposed a mandatory census on Jews. Out of the 58,412 counted, 9415 were Jews from abroad, mostly people escaping from the Nazi persecution in Central Europe. (Brock)
9416: Bristol Blenheim aircraft LD9416 was shot down on May 12th 1940 whilst attempting to bomb advancing German troops in Belgium. Two of the crew evaded capture, but the third was wounded and ended up as a POW. A Fairchild Bolingbroke aircraft is on display at the Royal Military Museum in Brussels as a replica of LD9416. (Big Martin)
9417: Command Paper Cm 9417, dated February 2017, was on "The United Kingdom's exit from and new partnership with the European Union". The foreword, by the then Prime Minister Theresa May, began "We do not approach these negotiations expecting failure, but anticipating success". In May 2019 she left office having failed to get her deal through Parliament three times. (Brock)
9418: Lee Valley Reservoir is Arizona's highest reservoir, with an elevation of 9,418 feet. (Big Martin)
9419: Wimbledon Leisure Centre and Spa is at Latimer Road, London. The phone number is 020 8540 9419. (Strawberry)
9420: 9420 is a song by a Chinese singer. (Awitt)
9421: In 2016, Costa Rica saw 9421 non-fatal and 9.7 fatal workplace injuries for every 100,000 workers. (Brock)
9422: Here is an illustration from a C13th Armenian manuscript (Mantenadaran Ms. 9422) depicting the resurrection of Lazarus. (Big Martin)
9423: 9423 is 233 - 143, which is the cube of the 9th prime minus the cube of the 9th nonprime. (Brock)
9424: At the time of his recent retirement, Peter Donald, the Montrose port chaplain, reckoned he had made 9,424 visits to ships during his career. (Big Martin)
9425: The phone number for the Royal Watercolour Society is 020 8050 9425. (Strawberry)
9426: In 1986 there were 9426 Jain monks in India. (Brock)
9427: The address for the Jewish Centre For Learning, is 75, Strauss Rd, Vaughan, ON L4J 8Z4, Canada. The phone number is (905) 762-9427. (Strawberry)
9428: Stephanie Smith polled 9428 votes for the Conservatives in the Edinburgh South constituency at the 2017 general election. (The winner was Ian Murray, who from 2015-2017 was Labour's only Scottish MP, and regained that dubious distinction in 2019.) (Brock)
9429: 9429 are the first four digits in the phone number of this inner Melbourne based orthotics business. (Awitt)
9430: In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is assigned prisoner number 9430 during his brief recapture. (Big Martin)
9431: An article in the Quorn Mercury in South Australia dated 28 July 1918, about the work that would eventually become known as the Oxford English Dictionary, states that there were 9431 pages in the section completed up to then. (Brock)
9432: ICAO Doc. 9432 is the manual of radiotelephony. (Big Martin)
9433: Resale tickets for the stage version of Disney's Frozen were on offer for as much as $9433 in August 2017. (Brock)
9434: At the 1918 General Election, the Bristol East constituency was won by National Liberal candidate George Bryant Britton with 9,434 votes. (Big Martin)
9435: This recording of Voice of Korea, the international broadcasting service of North Korea, was picked up on the west coast of Canada on 9435 kHz in February 2016. (Brock)
9436: The highest recorded peak flow of Victoria Falls was a figure of 9,436 cubic metres per second noted in 1958. (Big Martin)
9437: Police issued 9437 tickets for traffic offences in the Cayman Islands in 2022. (Brock)
9438: Halifax bomber R9438 crashed into the cliffs at Fitful Head on Shetland on March 30th 1942 whilst returning from a raid on the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway. (Big Martin)
9439: The Pic du Midi Observatory is situated at a height of 9439 feet, on top of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, a mountain in the French Pyrenees. (Brock)
9440: In 2021 there were 9,440 hectares of berry bushes under cultivation in Germany. (Big Martin)
9441: The title Honoured Pilot of the USSR was abolished on August 22, 1988 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet No. 9441-XI. (Brock)
9442: HD 9442 is a yellow main sequence star in the constellation of Andromeda. (Big Martin)
9443: 325 ends in the digits 9443 (it's in fact 847,288,609,443). (Brock)
9444: In 2021 Epping Playground Association received a grant of £9,444 from the National Lottery Community Fund. (Big Martin)
9445: At the 2016 Australian census there were 9445 people in Bondi Junction, an eastern suburb of Sydney. (Brock)
9446: Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashed on August 26th 2003 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts due to incorrect maintenance of the trim system. (Big Martin)
9447: 9447 speeding fines were sent out in Wales between 24 March and 24 May 2020 - the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. (Brock)
9448: Kathmandu is 9,448 kilometres from Paris by road. (Big Martin)
9449: In England and Wales, there were 9449 formal appeals against parking fines in 2005. (Brock)
9450: India imported 9,450 tonnes of silver in 2022. (Big Martin)
9451: The area of the Greek region of Western Macedonia is 9451 km2. (Brock)
9452: Bastiments, a mountain in the Pyrenees on the Spanish-French border, has an elevation of 9,452 feet. (Big Martin)
9453: Minor planet 9453 is named Mallorca, after the island where it was discovered. (Brock)
9454: The Bank of America Tower is at 9454 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills. (Big Martin)
9455: 9455 = 12 + 22 + 32 + ... + 302 (the 30th square pyramidal number). (Brock)
9456: 9,456 greater butterfly orchids were counted at Caeau Tan y Bwlch nature reserve in June 2023. (Big Martin)
9457: In Formula One motor racing, Ferrari holds the record for the most points by a constructor with 9457. (Brock)
9458: EPSG:9458 is the Australian Vertical Working Surface datum. (Big Martin)
9459: 10999 + 9459 is a titanic prime (a prime with at least 1000 decimal digits). Written out in full, it would be 1000...0009459 with 995 zeroes. (Brock)
9460: 9460 is the code for this Kärcher cleaning item. (Awitt)
9461: James Cleverly, who is Foreign Secretary as at August 2023, first entered Parliament as the MP for Braintree at the 2015 general election. The second-placed candidate on that occasion was Richard Bingley from the UK Independence Party, who polled 9461 votes. (Brock)
9462: ISO 9462 covers alpine ski-bindings. (Big Martin)
9463: In 1914, there were 9463 books in the Salisbury Children's Library - then known as the "Juvenile Department". (Brock)
9464: In 2016, 9,464 tonnes of aubergines were consumed in Switzerland. (Big Martin)
9465: Jack London's short story Finis is 9465 words long. (Brock)
9466: GWR 9400 class pannier tank loco 9466 was built for BR by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd in 1952 and is now based at the West Somerset Railway. (Big Martin)
9467: In September 2017 there were 9467 requests to access pornographic websites from devices connected to the Parliamentary network. (Brock)
9468: 9468 is the code for this plan from New Zealand. (Awitt)
9469: In 2015 there were 9469 applications for Japanese citizenship approved in a population of 127 million. (Brock)
9470: The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was released by the B29 bomber Enola Gay at 9,470 metres above the city. (Big Martin)
9471: In 2001 there were 9471 chip pan fires in the UK. (Brock)
9472: The Yuejin 3-3 oil well in China is set to be Asia's deepest, with a planned depth of 9,472 metres. (Big Martin)
9473: Spotify had 9473 employees as at June 2023. (Brock)
9474: 9474 is one of only three 4-digit Armstrong numbers, meaning that the sum of the fourth powers of its digits is the same as the number itself:
94 + 44 + 74 + 44 = 9474
(Big Martin)
9475: 9475 students completed their first degree in Northern Ireland in 2015/16. (Brock)
9476: South Fork Mountain in Wyoming has an elevation of 9,476 feet. (Big Martin)
9477: House of Commons Research Briefing CBP-9477, dated 18 July 2023, is on "Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion". (Brock)
9478: V&A image 2008BT9478 is an illustration by Eric Ravilious for Green Line bus routes from 1936. (Big Martin)
9479: The László Papp Budapest Sports Arena can hold up to 9479 people for ice hockey. (Brock)
9480: In October 2013, Lloyd W. performed 9,480 Burpee exercises in 72 hours in Portland, Oregon. (Big Martin)
9481: 9481 is 432 written backwards. (Brock)
9482: 9,482 people were assisted to emigrate from Ireland by Mr Tuke's Fund For Assisted Emigration between 1882 and 1885. (Big Martin)
9483: The Morning Star reported in February that there were 9483 Afghans still living in temporary accommodation, including hotels, across the UK. (Brock)
9484: Bristol Airport is 9,484 miles from Bora Bora. (Big Martin)
9485: The Kitab al-Kafi is a Twelver Shia hadith collection compiled by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni. According to the great Imami scholar Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmili, it contains 9485 traditions which are categorized as ḍaʿīf (weak). (Brock)
9486: 9,486 acres of the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland can be yours for a mere £35 million. (Big Martin)
9487: 9487 is the smallest number whose square is greater than 90,000,000. (Brock)
9488: The postcode of Schellenberg in Liechtenstein is 9488. (Big Martin)
9489: 9489 is the product code for this Lego set. (Awitt)
9490: The The Württemberg Fz class railway locomotives, built from 1893 to 1904, were 9,490 mm long. (Big Martin)
9491: The runway at East Midlands Airport is 9491 feet long. (Brock)
9492: 9492 is the area/postal code for Eschen in Liechtenstein. (Awitt)
9493: There were 9493 buses involved in road crashes in the Philippines National Capital Region (Metropolitan Manila) from January to August 2018. (Brock)
9494: Flood Monitoring Station 9494 records levels in the River Trym near Southmead Road in Filton. (Big Martin)
9495: On 1st January, 1950, there were 9495 dentists on the dental lists in England and Wales. (Brock)
9496: The B and B Directory entry 9496 is a house in Bradley Stoke. (Big Martin)
9497: There were 9497 entries to the 2019 Great American Beer Fest. (Brock)
9498: Million Dollar Golf Classic 9498 was held on May 22nd 2023 in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania by the Community Options housing and support group. (Big Martin)
9499: Minor planet 9499 is named Excalibur after King Arthur's legendary sword. (Brock)
9500: 9500 is the product code for this Italian marble for benchtops etc. (Awitt)

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