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Re: Counting

Posted: 26 Nov 2013, 06:53
by GuyBarry
926 is the smallest number that cannot be formed using the digits 1-6 at most once, with the operators +, –, ×, ÷, and ^. [Source: http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html]

Re: Counting

Posted: 26 Nov 2013, 16:38
by DrainBrain
In August 2012 an apparent supernova was observed in galaxy NGC 927.

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/ ... 08555.html

Re: Counting

Posted: 26 Nov 2013, 17:09
by GuyBarry
928 Stowe holds the highest speed authenticated for the Southern Railway's "Schools" class - 95 mph - which was attained near Wool in 1938 on a four-coach train from Dorchester to Wareham.

Re: Counting

Posted: 02 Dec 2013, 14:01
by DrainBrain
http://www.project929.com/

In May 2013, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe took a 460 mile bicycle ride to drag a piece of chalk to physically and symbolically draw a line around an area that would be large enough to create the worlds largest solar farm - one that could provide enough energy for the entire United States.

Re: Counting

Posted: 03 Dec 2013, 07:48
by GuyBarry
930 is a pronic number (or rectangular number), i.e. the product of two consecutive integers (30 x 31).

Re: Counting

Posted: 04 Dec 2013, 22:39
by The Orange One
Pop down to Crystal Palace Parade this Friday at 10am, and you will catch the wee rare beastie known as bus number 931. With a frequency of one a week in each direction.

http://www.londonbusroutes.net/photos/931.htm
http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/931.pdf

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 07:22
by GuyBarry
If that was a train it would be a "parliamentary service"...

932,000 people dropped out of the American labour force in October this year.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 10:18
by DrainBrain
Take the first six prime numbers: 2 3 5 7 11 13

Insert 933 between each pair: 2 933 3 933 5 933 7 933 11 933 13

Concatenate to a single number: 29333933593379331193313. This number is prime.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 13:56
by The Orange One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLMGXJuWsE

Little Prelude in C Minor, BWV934 by JS Bach.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 14:57
by GuyBarry
Would anyone like to employ this 935-year-old babysitter? (She seems to have kept remarkably well for her age.)

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 14:59
by The Orange One

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 15:08
by GuyBarry
[Interesting!]

The Battle of Brunanburh in AD 937, recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is regarded as one of the most defining battles in the history of the British Isles. Its precise location is uncertain but it is believed to be somewhere on the Wirral peninsula.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 15:14
by The Orange One
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=938;orb=1

Round and round it goes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/938_Chlosinde

Minor planet.

Or alternatively, E938 is element number 18.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 15:21
by GuyBarry
The Orange One wrote: Or alternatively, E938 is element number 18.
[Argon, apparently used as a packaging gas. You live and learn.]

The section of the A939 between Cock Bridge in Aberdeenshire and Tomintoul in Moray is regularly the first road in Great Britain closed due to snowfall. It reaches a height of 2090 ft at the Lecht Ski Centre.

Re: Counting

Posted: 05 Dec 2013, 15:25
by The Orange One
As for E940, it was the main component of Silly String.