The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 4000s

4001: The Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar was favoured by quite a number of rock band bassists. Charisma record CDS4001 is The Trick of the Tail by Genesis, on which Mike Rutherford plays a Rickenbacker 4001. (Big Martin)

4002: In contrast to prevailing thought, the Rickenbacker 4002 was not a limited edition. Being a luxury edition of the 4001, a lot of bass players simply didn't see the point of buying one and so it was discontinued unusually quickly. (AlmondFacialBar)

4034: In June 2017, the Kepler space telescope found 219 new exoplanets, boosting the total to 4034. (GuyBarry)

4037: The Brilliant Maps website has a map of the 4,037 cities in the world with over 100,000 people. (Big Martin)

4041: Vodka 4041 is described as "the result of 119 years of experience and expertise in alcohol production and distillation by the oldest and only Greek distillery, B.G. Spiliopoulos". (GuyBarry)

4053: The A4053 Coventry ring road has been described as one of the scariest roads in the country. Eight out of its nine junctions are multi-level, and the average distance between junctions is 430 yards. Only one road sign actually shows the number. (GuyBarry)

4066: 4066 (four thousand and sixty-six) is the highest number below 6000 that does not have the letter "e" in its English name. (GuyBarry)

4077: You can't let the number 4077 go by without mentioning M*A*S*H, the US film and TV series set at the fictional "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The lyrics of its theme tune, "Suicide is Painless", were written by a 14-year-old child, Michael Altman, with no other experience of songwriting, who subsequently became a millionaire from the song. (Big Martin/GuyBarry)

4089: 4089: Ghost Within is a computer game. (Big Martin)

4096: 4096 = 2¹² = 4⁶ = 8⁴ = 16³ = 64². (GuyBarry)

4107: The Cambridge Institute of Dog Behaviour & Training's course CIDBT4107 is Dogs and the Law. (Big Martin)

4115: 4115/33333 = 0.12345123451234512345... (GuyBarry)

4125: Swiss postcode area 4125 is the locality of Riehen in Basel. It's only ten minutes from Lörrach in Germany, where wanting anything like a swimming pool involves crossing the German/Swiss border. (Big Martin)

4134: The longest surviving letter by the Roman author Seneca is 4134 words long. (GuyBarry)

4137: The '32 Lindrum cue has a badge recording the 4,137 record break scored by Walter Lindrum on January 20th 1932 when playing against Joe Davis. Link (Big Martin)

4147: This online atlas shows all 4,147 hillforts in the UK and Ireland. (Big Martin)

4166: If you collected a million pre-decimal pennies, you'd have ended up with £4166 13s 4d (or just under £4166.67 in decimal). (GuyBarry)

4181: 4181 is the 19th member of the Fibonacci Sequence. (Big Martin)

4195: The main character in Antz, voiced by Woody Allen, is called Z-4195 (or "Z" for short). (GuyBarry)

4208: HD 4208 is an 8th magnitude star in the constellation of Sculptor. It is slightly cooler and dimmer than the Sun and a planet orbiting it has been observed. (Big Martin)

4220: According to NASA the equatorial diameter of Mars is 4,220 miles. Other sources put it at 4,222 miles. (Big Martin)

4236: The American songwriter and producer Peter Hollens claims the world record for the most names ever on an album. He credited all 4236 of his supporters who contributed financially and suggested the songs included in his album A Hollens Family Christmas.

4244: There are 4244 ways to lace a shoe that has four pairs of eyelets, assuming the lacing follows a Hamiltonian path through the eight eyelets and does not pass in order though three adjacent eyelets that are in a line. (GuyBarry)

4257: Drexel 4257 is a music manuscript commonplace book and an unrivalled source on early C17th English songs. (Big Martin)

4258: The Nile is 4258 miles long. It's either the longest or the second-longest river in the world, depending on who you believe. (GuyBarry)

4266: Barack Obama's farewell address in Chicago in January 2017 was 4266 words long, the longest televised address by an outgoing US President. (GuyBarry)

4272: Project Gutenberg eBook 4272 is The Christian Year by John Keble. (Big Martin)

4283: In December last year, the Chief Justice of Nigeria addressed 4,283 new lawyers called to the Bar. Link (Big Martin)

4291: "4291" was how Victor Meldrew always answered the phone in One Foot in the Grave - notably in this classic clip. (GuyBarry)

4297: A Stanford University study of walking activity in 46 countries around the world showed that Indians were among the laziest. They were ranked 39th and took an average of only 4297 steps a day. (GuyBarry)

4304: Acqualagna in the Italian region of Marche is one of the major Italian centres for truffles. As at December 31 2004 it had a population of 4,304. (Big Martin)

4309: 4309 is the smallest integer whose cube is greater than 80,000,000,000 (4309³ = 80,007,275,629). (GuyBarry)

4314: As of March 2017, there were 4,314 postcodes that were split across local authority boundaries. (Big Martin)

4324: In August 2017 Watts Up With That reported that a 4,324 day major hurricane drought had ended with the arrival of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. (Big Martin)

4333: To the nearest whole number, the orbital period of Jupiter is 4333 Earth days. (GuyBarry)

4338: The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters is a novel written in 1835 by Vladimir Odoevsky. (Big Martin)

4365: The supposed "equation" 3987¹² + 4365¹² = 4472¹² occurs briefly in an episode of The Simpsons entitled "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace". It can't be a genuine equation, because of Fermat's Last Theorem, but the two sides differ by 0.000000002% and agree to 10 decimal digits, so that the values would appear to be the same on many calculators. This is just one of a number of mathematical jokes smuggled into The Simpsons. (GuyBarry)

4379: Harley manuscript 4379 is part of Froissart's Chronicles and dates to the early 1470s. (Big Martin)

4385: It has been estimated that the comet Hale-Bopp will be visible from Earth again in 4385 AD. (Big Martin)

4400: The 4400 was a CBS TV series that ran from 2004 to 2007. (Big Martin)

4403: This example of how to divide 11531457 by 4403 using logarithms comes from James Dodson's 1742 work The Antilogarithmic Canon, Being a Table of Numbers to which is Prefix'd an Introduction. (GuyBarry)

4415: The bony-eared assfish, acanthonus armatus, holds the record for the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all vertebrates. (It looks as strange as its name sounds.) It's a bathypelagic species of cusk-eel found in tropical and sub-tropical oceans at depths from 1171 to 4415 metres. (GuyBarry)

4432: Minor planet 4432 McGraw-Hill could be said to have commercial sponsorship! It's named after the McGraw-Hill telescope located on the southwestern ridge of Kitt Peak, Arizona. The telescope was moved to its current location in 1975 with the financial support of McGraw-Hill Incorporated, an American educational publishing company, and the Sloan Foundation. (GuyBarry)

4444: Flørli in Norway is a roadless hamlet served by four ferries per day, home to a hydroelectric power station. It's known for its 4444 steps right up the mountain - the longest wooden stairway in the world. (GuyBarry)

4454: 4454 is the smallest integer requiring 38 letters to write in Spanish: cuatro mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro. (GuyBarry)

4458: Master of Malt offer a Tantalus bottled 1968 whisky from cask 4458 at the Macduff distillery for a mere £1,500. (Big Martin)

4464: On 29 June 2013, the LNER 4464 Bittern became the fastest British preserved steam locomotive when it hit a top speed of 149.3 kilometres per hour. (Olinguito)

4476: 4476 is the sum of the first 1000 decimal digits of pi. (GuyBarry)

4478: The summit of the Matterhorn is 4478 metres high. (GuyBarry)

4493: There are 4493 ways, counted up to symmetry, to build a contiguous building with 5 LEGO blocks of size 1 X 2. (GuyBarry)

4500: 4500 Miles From Delhi have Indian restaurants in Bristol and Oxford. (Big Martin)

4502: The English cricketer Ted Dexter scored a total of 4502 Test runs in his career. (Olinguito)

4528: According to an article on the Rolling Stone website, it takes 4,528 hours of play to unlock all options in the Star Wars Battlefront II game. (Big Martin)

4531: There were 4531 episodes of the US talk show The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. (GuyBarry)

4543: The original version of the United States Constitution contains 4543 words, including the signatures of 39 of the 55 delegates representing the states. (GuyBarry)

4553: Brooklyn Museum's object 4553 is the painting Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Tissot. (Big Martin)

4556: The Urban Dictionary claims that when we still used pagers, 4556 used to be the code for "good night and sweet dreams". (GuyBarry)

4560: Love in the Fog of the Future. The story of a romance in the year 4560 is a dystopian novel by the Russian writer Andrei Marsov, published in the 1920s. (GuyBarry)

4565: The Roller Coaster Database entry 4565 gives details of the roller coasters at Six Flags in New England. (Big Martin)

4574: The B4574 is a road linking the villages of Pont-rhyd-y-groes in Ceredigion, Wales, and Devil's Bridge, 12 miles east of Aberystwyth, and noted for three bridges built one above each other as well as for its falls and narrow gauge steam railway. Its odd V-shaped route can be seen clearly on the map here - another road, the B4343, is much more direct. The route is six miles long, and has been described by the AA as one of the ten most scenic drives in the world. (GuyBarry)

4577: Here's a recording of the Russian "English Man" numbers station on 4577 kHz. These broadcasts are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries, though their existence has never been officially admitted. (GuyBarry)

4594: NGC 4594 is known as the Sombrero Galaxy. It is in the constellation of Virgo and was first observed in 1781. (Big Martin)

4609: 4609 is a Cullen number - a number of the form (n × 2ⁿ) + 1, with n = 9 in this case. They were named after the Reverend James Cullen, who noticed they are nearly all composite - for instance 4609 = 11 x 419. The first prime Cullen number greater than 3 is (141 × 2¹⁴¹) + 1, which has 45 digits. (GuyBarry)

4616: The American TV soap opera Melrose Place was set in an apartment complex in 4616 Melrose Place, West Hollywood. (Big Martin)

4625: UVB-76, also known as "The Buzzer", is the nickname given by radio listeners to a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz. It broadcasts a short, monotonous tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day. (GuyBarry)

4655: A decomino is a plane figure made of ten equal squares connected edge-to-edge. When rotations and reflections are not considered to be distinct shapes, there are 4655 different decominoes (195 with holes and 4460 without holes). These are known as the "free" decominoes. (GuyBarry)

4663: The area of Adelaide Island in Antarctica is 4,663 square kilometres. (Big Martin)

4670: It was reported in March 2018 that the Russian space agency was looking for somebody to extract precious metals from decommissioned ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) stored at its facility. Each missile contains 198g of gold, 4670g of silver and 5g of platinum. (GuyBarry)

4683: The base of One Vanderbilt, a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, contains 4683 pieces of steel. (GuyBarry)

4690: According to The Difference Between the average depth of the Mediterranean is 4,690 feet. (Big Martin)

4699: To the nearest whole number, the frequency of the musical note D₈ (four octaves and a whole tone above middle C) is 4699 Hz. (GuyBarry)

4711: 4711 is a traditional German Eau de Cologne by Mäurer & Wirtz. (GuyBarry)

4712: Strong's Greek entry 4712 is stadion - literally a measure of length, but also used figuratively as a racecourse and used both ways in the bible in Greek. (Big Martin)

4731: Monica Grady is a leading space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites. Asteroid 4731 was named Monicagrady in her honour. (GuyBarry)

4738: Faroe Petroleum's Fogelberg appraisal well has been drilled to a depth of 4,738 metres. (Big Martin)

4755: The Jewel Box star cluster, in the constellation Crux and originally discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751-1752, was so named by John Herschel when he described its telescopic appearance as "...a superb piece of fancy jewellery". Other names for it are the "Kappa Crucis" cluster and the more prosaic NGC 4755. (GuyBarry)

4766: Sylvanian Families set 4766 is the kangaroo family. (Big Martin)

4773: In 2013, the golden eagle was voted Scotland's top wild animal with 4773 votes, ahead of the red squirrel, red deer, otter and harbour seal. (GuyBarry)

4785: It was reported in January 2018 that a Cypriot company is to lay a 4785-mile undersea internet cable connecting Israel with Spain, powerful enough to handle up to 60 per cent of the world's internet traffic at peak time. It has not yet come online. (GuyBarry)

4790: The address of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is 4790 West 16th Street, Speedway, Indiana. (Big Martin)

4797: Here's a picture, taken on 27th June 2018, of children and teachers from local schools sitting on the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park in front of Windsor Castle, alongside a card prepared as a gift for the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It was a Guinness World Records record attempt for the title of the Longest Concertina Folded card, by the Busy Buttons Design Centre CIC and a wide cross-section of the local community. The card was signed by 4797 people and has an unconfirmed length of 1367 metres. (GuyBarry)

4800: The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies carried news of the discovery of a 4,800 year old artificial eye discovered by archaeologists at the "Burnt City" site in south-east Iran. (Big Martin)

4810: The Montblanc 4810 collection of wristwatches takes its name from the height of Mont Blanc (approx. 4808.7 m above sea level). (Olinguito)

4830: Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake, has a surface area of 4,830 square miles, making it the world's 16th largest lake by surface area. Due to its depth, however, it's the 6th largest lake by volume. (Big Martin)

4840: An acre is 4,840 square yards. [Something that everyone would have learned at school once, and hardly anyone knows now! - Ed.] (Big Martin)

4848: The Space Shuttle Atlantis completed 4,848 orbits of the Earth. (Big Martin)

4859: Witold's Report was the first comprehensive record of a Holocaust death camp to be obtained by the Allies. It was written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki, a soldier in the Polish Army and a secret agent of the Polish resistance, who entered and escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp. His inmate number was 4859. (GuyBarry)

4866: According to a The Wall Street Journal article, 4,866 people drowned in the bath at home in Japan in 2014; a 70% increase in 10 years. (Big Martin)

4869: The premise of the Japanese manga series Case Closed is that the detective Jimmy Kudo is forced to ingest the experimental poison APTX-4869, which is supposed to kill him. Instead it shrinks him into the form of a young child. (GuyBarry)

4875: The capture of point 4875, a strategically important peak located in the Mushkoh Valley in Kashmir, took place under Captain Vikram Batra during the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. (GuyBarry)

4879: 4879 is a Kaprekar number, which means that its square can be split into two parts that sum to the original number:

48792 = 23804641

238 + 04641 = 4879

(In this case the second part has a leading zero, but it still counts.) (GuyBarry)

4881: It's hard to believe that much of what we know as New York City was once rural. The oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan Island, built around 1785, is the Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, at 4881 Broadway, Inwood, Manhattan. (GuyBarry)

4901: The Corral Fire, a wildfire that lasted from November 24 until November 27 2007 in the Malibu Creek State Park, burned 4901 acres of land. (GuyBarry)

4921: An ultra-prominent peak is defined as one with a height of at least 4921 feet (1500 metres). The term was introduced by earth scientist Stephen Fry (no, not that one!) in the 1980s, and was originally used for mountains exceeding 5000 feet in prominence. (GuyBarry)

4931: Carrier pigeons delivered 4931 mail messages in the Indian state of Odisha during 1992. (GuyBarry)

4933: Joseph Swan devised a method of treating cotton to produce "parchmentised thread", and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. (GuyBarry)

4940: The prime meridian and the equator cross in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa in a place jokingly known as Null Island. In actual fact there is no island there and the depth of the sea is around 4940 metres. (AlmondFacialBar)

4946: Super-Dreadnought Girl 4946 is a Japanese manga series. The title comes from the girl being 49.46 metres tall. (Big Martin)

4961: According to a 2017 Stanford University study of 68 million days' worth of minute-by-minute data from smartphones across the world, the average number of footsteps taken per day is 4961. (GuyBarry)

4989: 4989 Joegoldstein is an asteroid discovered by the American astronomer S.J. Bus on 28th February 1981. Dr Bus clearly had a productive time back then because two days later he also discovered asteroids 4659 Roddenberry and 4923 Clarke. (AlmondFacialBar)

4994: In 1984, the year of its market introduction, the Case 4994 was the most powerful tractor that manufacturer had ever built, with a 400 hp, Saab Scania 14.2 litre V8 Diesel engine, and the first one with a digital instrument panel. (AlmondFacialBar)