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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:26 am
by Arneb
Мастер wrote:You people have no respect for the obsessively compulsively inclined. Now I have to get us caught up.


Oh, but did I. I felt that searing pain with you.

Pluto's moon Charon has a diameter of 751 miles.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:02 pm
by Heid the Ba
Flight 752 met with an unfortunate, Iranian related, demise.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:17 pm
by Arneb
Sieben, fünf, drei, kroch Rom aus dem Ei - the mnemonic we learned for the (mythical, but precisely counted, ab urbe condita) founding of Rome in 753 B.C.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:35 pm
by Heid the Ba
754 AD: At the Council of Hieria the Emperor Constantine V supported the policy of Iconoclasm and condemned the use of icons in the Byzantine Empire. Good luck with that fella.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:53 pm
by Heid the Ba
The A755 runs from the A75 through High Borgue, to Kirkcudbright. FSM knows why it is categorised as an A road. Bonus point for anyone who can pronounce Kirkcudbright.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:54 pm
by Мастер
756 has three consecutive digits, but in the wrong order.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:49 pm
by Arneb
757 is obvious again: the flying pencil

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:28 pm
by Heid the Ba
The US 758th Tank Battalion was a segregated unit in WW2, which formed part of the 5th Tank Group (Negro). Something, something Greatest Generation . . .

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:21 pm
by Heid the Ba
759 is not prime, prime-ish or prime adjacent.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:42 pm
by Мастер
The largest prime factor of 760 is 19.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:50 pm
by Heid the Ba
The A761 runs through Renfrewshire and I used to travel along it to school, back when I was a wee laddie.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:03 pm
by Lianachan
Æthelberht II, King of Kent died in 762. I think they got through two or three kings that year. Tough times I guess.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:07 pm
by Heid the Ba
76 - 3 and 7 - 63 are both possible, but unlikely, NFL scores.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:16 pm
by Heid the Ba
76 - 4 is a very unlikely NFL score, 7 - 64 is more likely but still highly improbable.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:23 am
by Heid the Ba
India's National Highway 765 runs south from Hyderabad.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:01 pm
by Lianachan
766 AD saw the treacherous killing of Follaman son of Cú Chongalt, king of Mide.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:41 pm
by Heid the Ba
Bastards, we'll get them back one day.
767. Could be a 'plane, who knows?

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:45 am
by Arneb
Phone numbers at my old hospital started with 768 plus a 3-number extension. Mine was -310, if you must know.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:00 am
by Heid the Ba
The Mercedes G-Wagons (G-Wagonnen?) used by the Norwegian Army have a claimed power output of 769HP.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:35 am
by Arneb
Geländewagen (terrain vehicles), and the plural is identical to the singular. We don't use the French "Wagon" for cars, only for train coaches. In that case, the plural is germanized to "Wagons". The pronounciation is as in French, with w=v, stress on the second syllable and a guttural "ng" at the end, but we do pronounce the "s" in the plural, as Germans are wont to. Simple, right?

You can buy a cheap Californian Zinfandel over here, called 770 miles, from Amazon, at the rock-bottom price of € 3 per bottle, shipped for Prime customers. But maybe you shouldn't.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:46 am
by Heid the Ba
I'll avoid the Zinfandel, thanks.

771 is a number.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 12:26 pm
by Arneb
772 is a root area code in the South-West of Germany, gong from 770 through 7729, covering such coveted locations as Schwenningen am Neckar and Furtwangen im Schwarzwald.

Internationally, +772 is the country code of Kasakhstan, which is a whole lot of country for three numbers.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 12:46 pm
by Heid the Ba
"Furtwangen im Schwarzwald"? I know where my next holiday is.

Boeing 773s are flown by Ryaniar.

Edit: Ooooh Martin Schmitt the ski jumper is from Furtwangen.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 2:54 pm
by Lianachan
The angel number 774 is a mysterious phenomenon that has appeared in people’s lives for centuries. It’s believed to be your guardian angels sending you a message or a sign to help guide you on your path.

Suuuuuuure it is.

Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:10 pm
by Heid the Ba
775AD: Emperor Constantine V dies while on a campaign in Bulgaria. In his 34-year reign he has suppressed monasticism and image worship, restored aqueducts, revived commerce, and repopulated Constantinople. He is succeeded by his 25-year-old son Leo IV ("the Khazar"), who continues Constantine's campaigns against the Bulgars and Muslim Arabs.
Get it up ye! The Empire is on the way back.