Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[KLA2]

Speed of Hubble is 7.57 km/s (27 253 km/h)

http://sm3a.gsfc.nasa.gov/messages/657.html

[KLA2]

^ Grrr! Simulpost. OK, then

SKYSHIP 600
BLIMP/AIRSHIP SPECIFICATION
Volume:
254,000 Cubic Feet/7188 Cubic Meters

http://www.airshipoperations.com/AOI%20page%204.htm

[KLA2]

255

Its factorization makes it a sphenic number. Since 255 = 28 - 1, it is a Mersenne number, and the fourth such number not to be a prime number. It is a perfect totient number, the smallest such number to be neither a power of three nor thrice a prime.

In base 10, it is a self number.

255 is a repdigit in base 2 (11111111) in base 4 (3333), and in base 16 (FF) 1+1=6


[edit] In computing
255 is a special number in some tasks having to do with computing. This is the maximum value representable by an eight-digit binary number, and therefore the maximum representable by an unsigned 8-bit byte (the most common size of byte, also called octet), the smallest common variable size used in high level programming languages (bit being smaller, but rarely used for value storage). The range is 0 to 255, which is 256 total values.

255 = 28 − 1 = FF16 = 111111112.
For example, 255 is the maximum value

that can be assigned to elements in the 24-bit RGB color model, since each color channel is allotted eight bits.
of any dotted quad in an IP address.
of the Alpha blending scale in Delphi (255 being 100% visible and 0 being fully transparent)
This number occurs especially frequently in video games when a small number is needed, such as in the original The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System where the maximum number of Rupees (the currency of the game) is 255. In Metroid Prime, for the Nintendo Gamecube, 255 is the maximum number of missiles Samus Aran can hold. In the Madden NFL series, the maximum points you can score is 255. If more points are scored, the game score remains at 255 regardless. In Starcraft, the maximum number of kills shown for a unit is 255. In Square Enix's Final Fantasy series, it is often the maximum value for any given stat.

The usage of 8 bits for storage in older videogames has had the consequence of it appearing as a hard limit in many videogames. It was often used for numbers where casual gameplay would not cause anyone to exceed the number. However in most situations it is reachable given enough time. This can cause many other peculiarities similar to the above listed to appear when the number wraps back to 0.

This number could be interpreted by a computer as -1 if a programmer is not careful about which 8-bit values are signed and unsigned, and the two's complement representation of -1 in a signed byte is equal to that of 255 in an unsigned byte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/255_(number)

Ho-ly crap!!!

[Мастер]

An 8-bit number can take 256 different values.

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

257 is the country calling code for Burundi.

[Arneb]

258 years ago - the greatest of them all, Johann Sebastian Bach, dies.

[KLA2]

259 years ago ...

Fanny Hill is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica. The novel was published in two instalments, firstly on November 21, 1748 and February of 1749. Initially, there was no governmental reaction to the novel, and it was only in November 1749, a year after the first installment was published, that Cleland and his publisher were arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

260 years ago...

End of the War of the Austrian Succession.

[KLA2]

Media Alert: Ontario Veterinarians Cycle 261 km for Seniors, Disabled Individuals & Women at Risk of Abuse

MILTON, ON, Sept. 10 /CNW/ - 21 veterinarians and animal health industry
professionals from around Ontario will cycle more than 260 km in a single day (a projected 10-hour ride!!) to raise funds and awareness for the Farley Foundation - a charitable organization which assists seniors, disabled persons and women at risk of abuse (in OVMA's SafePet Program(xx)) with the emergency veterinary care of the pets that mean the world to them.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch ... c7244.html

[Lance]

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") was the world's first operational turbojet fighter aircraft.

[KLA2]

The Flaminian Obelisk
Located in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, this obelisk was originally erected in the Sun Temple at Heliopolis, Egypt. It is 75 feet tall and weighs 263 tons, or 526,000 pounds.

[KLA2]

Bump :wink:

Solar eclipses were observed from locations near both edges of the paths of totality in England in 1715, in Australia in 1976, and in North America in 1979. Analysis of these observations shows that the solar radius has contracted by 0.34 ± 0.2 arc second in 264 years.

Submitted on November 14, 1979
Revised on June 23, 1980

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/a ... 243?ck=nck

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

Two hundred [and] sixty-five 265 = 5·53, Padovan number, centered square number, Smith number, subfactorial 6. It's the 666th decimal of Pi in base 666, making it a hyper-evil number.

:P

[Arneb]

Lake Powell has a surface area of 266 sq. miles.

[KLA2]

America's official Christmas tree ... stands 267 feet tall in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is a giant sequoia named General Grant, designated by Federal law in 1926 as ''the nation's Christmas tree."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A96E948260

[Arneb]

The carboniferous era ended 268 million years ago.

[KLA2]

^ {Ah, it seems like just yesterday ... }

269 years (8.49 × 109 s) -- half-life of argon-39

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

270 is the number of votes in U.S. Electoral College needed to be elected President of the United States.

[KLA2]

After five years and 271 attempts to pass the theoretical part of his driving test, it was 272nd time lucky for South Korean Seo Sang-moon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4447925.stm

Good for him!

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

Halton Arp's Peculiar Galaxy Arp 272 are in fact two galaxies colliding.

[Heid the Ba]

273 was my police number.

[KLA2]

The Mina Valenciana in Mexico was 274 fathoms deep when Alexandra Humbolt visited it in 1799.

http://www.cornish-mexico.org/mexicosocbackg.htm

[Arneb]

My friends, there is bad news. We doubled one of the numbers (254), so the post count is out of with the numbers we are connecting to facts. This is terrible.

I'll resynch:

275 km - diameter of Venus' largest impact crater, Mead

Eratosthenes, who was the first to calculate the size of the Earth, lived from 276 - 196 BC

[Lance]

I thank you, Arneb, 277 times for fixing that error.

[KLA2]

A long-lost opera by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi has been performed for the first time in 278 years, in the city of Prague.

Argippo was written for the Czech capital and premiered there in 1730.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7382451.stm