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Re: Counting

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 18:08
by RobbieM
The A756 forms the old westbound loop of the A75 inner loop road in Dumfries town centre and gained its number when Dumfries was given a (much needed) bypass in the early 1990s.

Re: Counting

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 18:13
by GuyBarry
The Boeing 757 is Boeing's largest single-aisle passenger aircraft.

[Boeing is naturally getting a lot of publicity at the moment!]

Re: Counting

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 18:22
by RobbieM
Should you find yourself in Worcester, and wish to get to Tenbury Wells, you could always catch bus number 758.

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Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 18:38
by GuyBarry
Gallery 759 of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art covers the emergence of the Hudson River School, 1815-1850.

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Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 19:11
by RobbieM
A journey from Largs to Auchengrange could be made via the A760, but it's very hilly.

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Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 19:35
by Urzzz1871
The Spanish city of Oviedo was founded in AD 761

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Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:26
by GuyBarry
762 is the position of the so-called Feynman point in the decimal representation of pi (3.14159...). The sequence of digits does not terminate or repeat itself, but when you get to the 762nd decimal place the unusual sequence "999999" appears.

Re: Counting

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:34
by RobbieM
763 - the last three digits of Royston's STD code.

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Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:36
by GuyBarry
764-HERO was an American Indie rock band from Seattle, Washington, signed to Up Records. The band's name, suggested by a friend, is taken from the Washington State Department of Transportation phone number for reporting HOV lane violators.

Re: Counting

Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:52
by RobbieM
The B765 runs through Shettleston, in East Glasgow.

Re: Counting

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 08:14
by GuyBarry
Another of those "dotty" ones (or "figurate numbers" to use the technical term): 766 is the 18th centred pentagonal number. You can arrange 766 dots in a pentagon with one dot in the centre and 17 surrounding layers.

Re: Counting

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 09:30
by The Raven
Old Boeing 767 are dismantled in Roswell, New Mexico.

Re: Counting

Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 10:23
by GuyBarry
When comic artist James Harvey called on his friends to redraw Japanese Akira comics with Simpsons characters, he got 768 submissions.

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Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 11:36
by DrainBrain
769 is the 28th emirp, that is, a prime number that creates a different prime when its digits are reversed.

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Posted: 19 Sep 2013, 12:33
by GuyBarry
File 770 is a long-running science fiction fanzine and newszine published by Mike Glyer. It is named after the now legendary party held in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, that ran continuously for nearly two days in 1951.