The Quite Incredible Number List: 9701-9800

9701: The US naval vessel ATLS-9701 is an unnamed aerial target launch ship launched in 1998. (Big Martin)

9702: 9702 = 21² x 22 = 21³ + 21². (Brock)

9703: In April 2017, Romanian Gabriel-Dan Chiriac broke the European skydiving record with a jump from 9,703 metres. (Big Martin)

9704: There were 9704 recorded knife crimes in the Metropolitan Police area in 2015/16. (Brock)

9705: In July 2022 it was reported that home ownership in Edinburgh had increased by 9,705 properties in the previous 5 years. (Big Martin)

9706: The maximum maintenance loan available from Student Finance England for the 2022/23 academic year, for those studying outside London and not living with their parents, was £9706. (Brock)

9707: Miles M.14A Hawk trainer aircraft T9707 is on display at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation. (Big Martin)

9708: At the 2021 Australian census, the population of Fortitude Valley, Queensland was 9708. (Brock)

9709: At the end of September 2021 London vaults held 9,709 tonnes of gold. (Big Martin)

9710: Known as the Magna Carta of Women, Philippines Republic Act No. 9710, passed in 2009, "affirms the role of women in national building and ensures the substantive equality of women and men" in society. (Brock)

9711: The most extreme weather station in Germany is at 9,711 feet on the country's highest peak, Zugspitze. (Big Martin)

9712: The application process for 9712 teacher vacancies in Rajasthan, India began on January 31, 2023. (Brock)

9713: The Almondvale Stadium in Livingston, Scotland has an all-seater capacity of 9,713. (Big Martin)

9714: There were 9714 climbers registered with Washington State's Mount Rainier National Park in 2003. (Brock)

9715: 9,715 people viewed the boats in the marina at the 2023 Jersey Boat Show. (Big Martin)

9716: The summit of Ben Lomond Mountain in Utah is at 9716 feet. It's named after Ben Lomond in Scotland, although "Ben" means "mountain", so the "mountain" bit is technically redundant. (Brock)

9717: The monitor HMS Abercrombie operated by the RN in WW2 had a deep displacement of 9,717 tons. (Big Martin)

9718: The Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany at 9718 feet above sea level. (Brock)

9719: Since 2016, 121 family water cellars have been built in Ethiopia, benefitting 9,719 people. (Big Martin)

9720: 9720 = (3+3) x (3+3+3) x (3+3+3+3) x (3+3+3+3+3). (Brock)

9721: The total of the climbs in the Dartmoor Way 100k Circular is 9,721 feet. (Big Martin)

9722: Mama, Teach Me to Dance by Eydie Gormé was released in the US in 1956 as catalogue number 9722 by ABC-Paramount Records. (Brock)

9723: HIP 9723 is a star located in the constellation of Perseus. (Big Martin)

9724: In October 2018 there were 9724 homeless people across Ireland. (Brock)

9725: According to a 2018 study, the average British pizza lover will spend £9,725 on them. (Big Martin)

9726: The late-Victorian author Deborah Alcock died in 1913, leaving £9726 and 16 shillings in her will. (Brock)

9727: Executive Order 9727 was issued by Harry S Truman in 1946 for the possession, control and operation of certain railroads in the USA. (Big Martin)

9728: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, on average there were 9728 aeroplanes in the sky at any one time, carrying more than 1.2 million passengers (2017 figures). (Brock)

9729: People's Collection Wales' item 9729 is the stuffed remains of "Whiskey" the turnspit dog. (Big Martin)

9730: According to the 2003 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics there were 9730 people earning a living as cattle herders. (Brock)

9731: LCU 9731 is a military ops vessel based in Appledore. (Big Martin)

9732: According to a Freedom of Information request dated 08/12/22, there are 9732 library cards registered at Grantham Library in Lincolnshire. (Brock)

9733: Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is e-book 9733 on Project Gutenberg. (Big Martin)

9734: OEIS (the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) is a source for many posts in this list. In 2008 the integer 9734 appeared in OEIS only once. Today it appears 67 times. (Brock)

9735: UNFCCC project 9735 is a bundled wind power project in India. (Big Martin)

9736: The capacity of the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California for ice hockey is 9736. (Not to be confused with the Canadian province.) (Brock)

9737: The road to the communications equipment on 9,737 foot Steens Mountain is said to be the highest road in Oregon. (Big Martin)

9738: Until 1994, when Andorra adopted its own international dialling code, it was possible to access Andorran numbers from the Spanish phone network using the area code 9738. (Brock)

9739: IWM war memorial 9739 is to the crew of HM Submarine "Vandal" on the Isle of Arran. (Big Martin)

9740: Piz Gloria is a revolving restaurant at the 9740-foot-high summit of the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The name originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the building was used in the making of the 1969 film. After filming the restaurant retained the name, and the lower floor still houses a James Bond exhibition. (Brock)

9741: On October 26 2021 the Taal Volcano in the Philippines released 9,741 tonnes of sulfur dioxide to the atmosphere. (Big Martin)

9742: On June 25 1946, US President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9742, which ordered the liquidation of the War Relocation Authority and allowed Japanese-Americans to return to their homes. (Brock)

9743: A study of 9,743 people in the United States looked at the impact of a vegetarian diet upon bowel habits. (Big Martin)

9744: The longer of the two runways at El Fasher Airport in Sudan is 9744 feet long. (Brock)

9745: Melbourne International Airport in Orlando. Florida is 9,745 miles from Melbourne in Australia, so don't get confused. (Big Martin)

9746: At approximately 5100 metres, La Rinconada in Peru is the world's highest settlement, with 9746 inhabitants at the 2017 census. (Brock)

9747: A government survey counted 9,747 burial grounds in England and Wales. (Big Martin)

9748: In November 2018, Dr Anthony Cavo of Antique Trader did a search on eBay for the terms "rare Victorian" and got 9748 results. In his words, "who knew rarities were so available?". (Brock)

9749: The BS48 postcode area in North Somerset contains 9,749 households. (Big Martin)

9750: 9750 is the hypotenuse of exactly 10 distinct integer-sided right-angled triangles; i.e. 9750² can be written as the sum of two squares in exactly 10 different ways. (One of them is 5850² + 7800² = 9750².) (Brock)

9751: LMS Stanier tender 9751 was built for the loco Duchess of Sutherland in 1938 and is still with it. (Big Martin)

9752: In London in the year to March 2016, there were 9752 instances of knife crime. By March 2020 that had gone up to 15,928. (Brock)

9753: The world's largest Easter egg hunt involved 9,753 children looking for 501,000 eggs at Cypress Gardens in Florida on April 1st 2007. (Big Martin)

9754: In the state Landtag of Hamburg, the Nazi Party got 9754 votes (1.5% of the vote) in the 1927 election, gaining two seats. Five years later, it was up to 31% of the vote and 51 seats. (Brock)

9755: Royal Museums Greenwich's item PAH9755 is a North West Prospect of the City of Bristol made in 1734 by the Buck Brothers. (Big Martin)

9756: Throughout the whole of April 2023, the number of sellers on the non-fungible token market exceeded the number of buyers. Before then, the last recorded day buyers exceeded sellers was on March 11, when there were 9756 buyers and 9754 sellers. (Brock)

9757: The ceiling of the Boeing B52 Stratofortress bomber was 9,757 feet higher than the Convair B36 Peacemaker. (Big Martin)

9758: Minor planet 9758 is named Dainty - not a reference to its size or appearance, but to John Christopher Dainty (born 1947), British optical physicist and professor of optics at Imperial College, London. (Brock)

9759: In the 12 months from July 2022, 9,759 graffiti tags were removed in San Francisco. (Big Martin)

9760: In August 2021, Infarm announced plans to open a new 9760-square-metre vertical farm in Bedford. (Brock)

9761: Indian Standard IS 9761 covers hydropower intakes. (Big Martin)

9762: Brazil's Amazon rainforest lost 9762 km² of its vegetation between August 2018 and July 2019. (Brock)

9763: On May 5th 2016, Dawn Bowden was elected to the Welsh Assembly with 9,763 votes. (Big Martin)

9764: The digits of 9764² all occur twice each (95,335,696). (Brock)

9765: Air Tahiti Nui Flight 64 set a record as the world's longest domestic flight at 9,765 miles. As French Polynesia is part of the French Republic, this makes it a "domestic flight". (Big Martin)

9766: 9766 is the postcode of Rum in Hungary. (Brock)

9767: Catalina aircraft N9767 was supplied to the RCAF and attacked and destroyed U342 April 17th 1944. After WW2, the plane entered commercial operation and, after long service in various roles, is still around. (Big Martin)

9768: The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the successor of Charlemagne. A manuscript copy, dating from around the year 1000, can currently be found in the National Library of France under the call number Latin 9768. (Brock)

9769: Simplicity pattern 9769 is for creating (American) Civil War style undergarments for ladies. (Big Martin)

9770: Minor planet 9770 was named Discovery after the spaceship in Arthur Clarke's novel and Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Brock)

9771: In 2002, there were 9771 reported cases of whooping-cough in the United States. (Ed.)

9772: There were 9772 recorded cases of scarlet fever in England and Wales in the 20 weeks up to 27 November 2022. (Brock)

9773: Chiricahua Peak in Arizona has an elevation of 9,773 feet. (Big Martin)

9774: Vodafone customers who wish to change their communication preferences should text the appropriate code to 9774 (e.g. "Stop Phone" opts out of calls about Vodafone products and services). (Brock)

9775: Science Photo Library image C006/9775 is of the airship USS Shenandoah and its tender in 1924. (Big Martin)

9776: Split the digits of 9776 into 97 and 76 and raise the second to the power of the first (i.e. 76⁹⁷). This ends in the digits 9776. (Brock)

9777: The Metro Alpin underground funicular in Switzerland is the highest funicular and subway in the world, with the lower station at 9,777 feet and the top one at 11,339 feet. (Big Martin)

9778: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2018, 9778 vehicle occupants without seatbelts were killed in crashes in the United States. (Brock)

9779: The exoplanet LTT 9779 b is highly reflective and has temperatures of over 2,000 degrees. (Big Martin)

9780: Minor planet 9780 is named Bandersnatch, after the creature in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, which also appears in The Hunting of the Snark. (Brock)

9781: The high-speed railway being built in China's Guandong Province includes a 9,781-metre-long tunnel that passes through 17 major fault rupture zones. (Big Martin)

9782: In a Commons speech on 6 March 1923 arguing for mothers' pensions, Rhys Davies noted that under the Poor Law "at the present time there are 9782 boarded-out children at a cost of 10s. 6d. per week, and these are costing the country £266,020 per annum". (Brock)

9783: At the time of the 2001 census, there were 9,783 Grenadian-born people living in the UK. (Big Martin)

9784: A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. In general, it is not possible to determine whether a given Turing machine will halt given an arbitrary input string. However, it has been proved that there are 9784 two-state Turing machines which halt. (Brock)

9785: 9785 is a "gapful number" in that it is divisible by the number (95) formed by its first and last digits. (Big Martin)

9786: The total expenditure of the 32nd Butlocks Heath Scout and Cub Group to the year ending 31 March 2022 was £9786. (Brock)

9787: In the year ending March 2019, there were 9,787 offences involving firearms in the UK. (Big Martin)

9788: 9788 companies were formed in Lancashire in 2014. (Brock)

9789: Vidor in Texas had a population of 9,789 people at the time of the 2020 census. It doesn't sound like a pleasant place to live. (Big Martin)

9790: On 8th October 2017, a team of nine runners from BeyondAutism took part in the Royal Parks Half Marathon, raising £9790 (including GiftAid) for the Tram House Appeal. (Brock)

9791: Over the 2018-2019 fiscal year, Myanmar authorities seized 9,791 tons of illegal log timber. (Big Martin)

9792: In the year 1826-27, the Bladnoch Distillery in Galloway produced 9792 imperial gallons of whisky. (Brock)

9793: A 2022 report revealed that there were at least 9,793 tower blocks in England still with potentially unsafe cladding. (Big Martin)

9794: Richard Harrington was elected for the Conservatives in the Watford constituency at the 2015 general election with a majority of 9794 over Labour. (Brock)

9795: On November 26th 1999, freight train 9784 collided with ballast train 9795 after it was incorrectly diverted into a siding at Ararat, Victoria. (Big Martin)

9796: There are 9796 acres open to hunting at the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge near the town of St. Francisville, Louisiana. (Brock)

9797: Bristol Beaufort aircraft L9797 crashed at Ashington, Northumberland whilst returning from a raid on Ghent on June 6th 1940 after hitting a barrage balloon cable because the pilot was blinded by searchlights. One of the crew and 3 people on the ground were killed. (Big Martin)

9798: If you successively concatenate the positive integers by pairs (i.e. 12, 34, 56, 78, 910, 1112, ...), then 9798 is the highest four-digit number in the list. (Essentially the same as this list, ignoring the initial zero.) (Brock)

9799: 9799 Thronium is a dark Jovian asteroid. (Big Martin)

9800: The Space Needle, an observation tower in Seattle, weighs exactly 9800 tons. (Brock)