Counting

[GuyBarry]

A997 is the highest three-digit A-road number that has ever been used in Britain. The A997 once ran for just over a mile from Causewayhead to Blairlogie in Stirlingshire, but has now been reclassified as the B998.

[tractakid]

You seem to have 998 covered...

999 is the emergency telephone number for the United Kingdom used to summon the Police, Ambulance, Fire Brigade and Coastguard services.

Merry Christmas GuyBarry.

[GuyBarry]

Well, you're not really supposed to do two in one post. But what the hell, it's Christmas...

1000 Chiffres/1000 Numbers is a video by Olivier Hodasava consisting of images of the numbers 1 to 1000 taken from Street View, with music by David Martin Angor. It was put together to mark the 1000th day of his blog "Dreamlands", a virtual travel diary. I think it's absolutely brilliant.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[nozzacook]

I started the first 1000 so better start the second


Cafe 1001 can be found at 91 Brick Lane, London.

[GuyBarry]

I thought I was going to get told off for cheating!

If you need to give anyone a belated Christmas present, maybe 1002 Terrible Puns is the thing. (Sample: "As I only just failed my trial as a mortuary assistant, they said I cadaver second go.")

[nozzacook]

BR Class 52 D1003 Western Pioneer
Built Swindon April 1962
Withdrawn January 1975
Scrapped August 1977 by BREL.

[GuyBarry]

In Korean, the number 1004 (chun sa) sounds like the word for "angel". It's given its name to 1004 Virus, a campaign to support children with rare diseases in Korea.

[DrainBrain]

The real life Macbeth was born circa 1005: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_f ... beth.shtml

[GuyBarry]

The supernova SN 1006, the brightest stellar event in history, occurred between 30 April and 1 May in AD 1006. In 2012 - coincidentally 1006 years later - a team of researchers from the University of Barcelona found that it probably occurred as a result of the merger of two white dwarfs.

[greatkingrat]

In order to prove Guy wrong, the 1007 bus serves North Oldham High School in Oldham County, Kentucky.

[GuyBarry]

[I stand corrected! Flight numbers are still good for four digits, though they always seem to be associated with fatal accidents...]

Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashed on 25 April 1980 on a non-scheduled flight from Manchester to Tenerife, killing all 146 on board.

[nozzacook]

www.1009mg.org.uk
This is the web address for the Southampton and New Forest MG owners club.

[GuyBarry]

The twelve pentominoes are a set of geometric figures formed by joining five squares edge to edge, which can be used in a variety of geometrical puzzles. In particular, they can be used to construct a 5x12 rectangle in exactly 1010 different ways.

[DrainBrain]

Launched on 10 November (i.e. 10/11) in 1992, the Nokia 1011 was the first mass-produced GSM phone.

[GuyBarry]

Project 1012 is an initative to clean up Amsterdam's notorious red light district and "coffee-shop" industry, named after the district in which much of it is situated.