The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 3000s

3001: 3001: The Final Odyssey is the fourth (and final) book in Arthur C Clarke's Space Odyssey series. (Big Martin)

3012: 3012 is a board game set in a postapocalyptic Yucatan jungle. (AlmondFacialBar)

3023: The Medtronic InterStim 3023 neurostimulator is designed tp manage the symptoms of treatment resistant incontinence. (AlmondFacialBar)

3030: Deltron 3030 are an alternative hip hop trio. They released a self-titled album in 2000. (Strawberry)

3037: Law 3037/2002 bans the playing of electronic games in public places in Greece. (AlmondFacialBar)

3039: PSR J0737-3039 is the only known double pulsar, consisting of two neutron stars in a relatavistic binary system. (Big Martin)

3052: In Scotland there were 3052 humanist marriages in 2012. (Ed.)

3070: The American composer/ producer, Richard Davis, has released music under the alias 3070. (Strawberry)

3087: Prisoner B-3087 is a fictionalised account of Yanek Gruener's experiences in and survival of the concentration camps of WW2. The title comes from the number tattooed on his arm. (Big Martin)

3099: HR3099 is known as the Donald Trump Act. (Big Martin)

3107: The Model 3107 chair is a Modernist classic of furniture and was designed by Arne Jacobson in 1955. (AlmondFacialBar)

3117: 3117 is an emergency number you can ring for problems on French trains. (tetsabb)

3133: A watch with a Poljot 3133 movement holds the record for the longest space flight, on the wrist of Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov. (Big Martin)

3147: According to a sign in Land's End, New York is 3,147 miles away. (Strawberry)

3150: It is believed that the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were united under the Pharaoh Menes in around 3150 BC. (Big Martin)

3159: Daallo Airlines Flight 159 (DAO 159/ D3159) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Somali-owned Daallo Airlines. On the 2nd of February, 2016, an explosion occurred on board the aircraft 20 minutes after it took off from Mogadishu. The aircraft was able to return to the airport safely, with one fatality (the bomber) reported. A subsequent investigation indicated that the explosion was caused by a bomb, detonated in a suicide attack. The Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab later claimed responsibility for the bombing. A total of ten people were convicted in relation to the plot. (Strawberry)

3172: Twitter has an account called Horsepower 3172. It's a robotic team from Salina, Kansas, United States. (Strawberry)

3186: Research in Svalbard database's project ID3186 is observation of clouds and aerosols by automated micro pulse lidar and all sky imager. (Big Martin)

3193: 3193 are the final digits in the DOI of a neuroscience article stating that humans can learn new information during sleep. (Awitt)

3200: The Motorola International 3200 was the first digital hand-size mobile telephone introduced in 1992. (GuyBarry)

3204: 3204 Lindgren is a main belt asteroid named after the Swedish author. In what must be one of the most groanworthy puns in the history of astronomy it is also know as Asteroid Lindgren. (AlmondFacialBar)

3219: At a raffle held by The Twelve Apostles Church in Hertfordshire, the winning number for two bottles of wine from Ampeli was 3219. (Strawberry)

3222: 3222 Liller is an asteroid discovered in 1983 by Edward L. G. Bowell. What's so interesting about this? Well...

(3 + 2 + 2 + 2) x (3 x 2 x 2 x 2) = 1 x 9 x 8 x 3

(Olinguito)

3234: The Battle for Hill 3234 was a battle fought by the 345 Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, Soviet Airborne Troops, in Afghanistan against a force of 200 to 250 Mijahideen rebels. (Strawberry)

3240: 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 78 + 79 + 80 = 3240. (Olinguito)

3250: On July 14 2016 3,250 people "Walked It" in support of the charity Crohn's and Colitis UK. (Big Martin)

3264: 3264 and All That: A Second Course In Algebraic Geometry is a book by David Eisenbud. (Big Martin)

3279: The IBM 3279 was IBM's first colour terminal. It was introduced in 1979. (Strawberry)

3288: The 3288 Review describes itself as "A Journal of West Michigan Arts and Letters". It's so named because Michigan has 3288 miles of coastline. (GuyBarry)

3296: The Lego ultimate collector series Star Wars Sandcrawler has 3,296 pieces. (Big Martin)

3301: Cicada 3301 is a name given to an enigmatic organization that on six occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles and alternate reality games to possibly recruit codebreakers from the public. (Olinguito)

3306: The B3306, also known as the West Cornwall Coast Road, is often considered one of the greatest driving roads in the United Kingdom for its scenery. It connects St Ives in the east to St Just in the west. (Ed.)

3310: "Can the Nokia 3310 mobile phone survive a 1500-foot drop from the sky?" asks this video. The answer, unsurprisingly, is "no". (GuyBarry)

3319: 2³³¹⁹ is the smallest thousand-digit number of the form 2ⁿ. (GuyBarry)

3327: The Serbian physicist Nikola Tesla lived in Room 3327 in Manhattan's Hotel New Yorker from 1933 to 1943. A plaque has been erected in his honour. (GuyBarry)

3335: In 1868 Robert Lewis Roumieu designed 33-35 Eastcheap for the City of London as a vinegar warehouse for Hill & Evans at a cost of £8,170. (Strawberry)

3339: Mark Copsey found 3,339 rare Roman coins in Yeovil, Somerset in 2016. (Strawberry)

3360: 3360 is the total number of 3-digit hexadecimal numbers with no repeated digit (allowing 0 as the first digit). (That is to say, ¹⁶P₃ = 3360.) (Olinguito)

3375: There were 3375 UK sales of million-pound homes in the first half of 2011. (Ed.)

3400: In February 2016 an Israeli boy discovered a 3,400 year old figurine of a curvaceous goddess. (Big Martin)

3401: Once every four years, the best Belgian draft horses compete in the North American Belgian Championship 8 competition. In the October 2016 competition, the winner in the "Horse Pull Heavy Weight- 3401 Pounds and Over" category was Moose, Tater, property of Jim Grover (Lebanon, CT). (GuyBarry)

3407: The entire Harry Potter saga in its original print edition has 3407 pages. (AlmondFacialBar)

3413: 1¹ + 2² + 3³ + 4⁴ + 5⁵ = 3413. (Olinguito)

3422: Tungsten melts at 3422°C, at normal atmospheric pressure. In a vacuum (e.g. inside an evacuated filament bulb) its melting point would be different. (Olinguito)

3437: There are 3437 10-bead necklace structures using exactly four different coloured beads. (Ed.)

3448: According to the 2011 UK Census, there are roughly 3,448 people who identify as Pagan in Wales. (Strawberry)

3454: Jungfraujoch is an underground railway station situated below the Jungfraujoch col in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. At 3,454 metres (11,332 ft) above sea level, this is the highest railway station in Europe, and is close to the summits of the Eiger, Jungfrau and Monch mountains. (Strawberry)

3462: "Madness?" is the title of a work by Delta-3462 on the Deviant Art site. (GuyBarry)

3477: On the 20th of August, 1941, some 3,477 Jewish or stateless people were arrested and transported to the camp in Drancy, northern France. (Strawberry)

3490: According to Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, published 1831, a total of 3490 lbs of sugar was purchased for some unspecified event in 1823 ("at the Bloomingdale"). (GuyBarry)

3508: On the Internet Pinball Archive, ID no. 3508 belongs to a table called "Punchy the Clown". It has a fun rating of 6.7/10 and only 103 units were confirmed to have been made. (BooksOfDoom)

3511: 3511 is a prime number, but also an emirp -- when you reverse its digits to 1153, that, too, is prime. (tetsabb)

3528: Here's a short video of a Brass & Copper Kinetic Wind Sculpture with 3528 LED strip. (GuyBarry)

3535: According to the lyrics to Zager and Evans' song In the Year 2525: "In the year 3535/Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie/Everything you think, do and say/Is in the pill you took today..." (GuyBarry)

3539: The Canard is listed as plane number 3539 by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. They say: "The Canard has a long fuselage, delta wing and canard. A canard is a small wing placed on an airplane in front of the main wing. The Canard is excellent for long-distance flights and flights requiring accuracy. Its forward wings give you extra control over its flying characteristics." (Did I mention that it's a paper aeroplane?) (GuyBarry)

3552: 3552 Don Quixote is a near earth asteroid. (Big Martin)

3567: The licence plate of the 1966 Batmobile was 2F-3567. (Big Martin)

3579: The chorus of Tom Robinson's 2-4-6-8 Motorway has the lyrics: "2-4-6-8 ain't never too late/Me and my radio truckin' on through the night/3-5-7-9 on a double white line/Motorway sun coming up with the morning light." (GuyBarry)

3590: Amongst the mathematical properties of the number 3590 is the fact that it's an "apocalyptic power", which means that the decimal representation of 2³⁵⁹⁰ contains the digits 666. (GuyBarry)

3599: Manuscript 3599 in the Lambeth Palace Library is a C13th book of hours. (Big Martin)

3605: In 2013, Northamptonshire County Council handed out £3,605 in illegal fines in streets near Northampton General Hospital. (Strawberry)

3614: 3614 Jackson Highway was Cher's 6th album. (Big Martin)

3626: Burrell steam tractor 3626 was built in 1914 and is named Jane Eyre. (Big Martin)

3633: US patent 3633 was for Charles Goodyear's rubber vulcanisation process. (Big Martin)

3643: According to CNN, Donald Trump has acquired 3,643 websites. (Big Martin)

3652: According to the 2011 census, a total of 3,652 residents (81.7%) of Chirk in Wrexham have no skills in the Welsh language. (Strawberry)

3665: 3665 Wild Oats Drive is a location in the Grand Theft Auto game. (Big Martin)

3669: 3669 is the number for the Horloge Parlante - the French speaking clock. (Big Martin)

3683: 3683 is the 28th cake number, which means it's the maximum number of regions into which a 3-dimensional cube can be partitioned by exactly 28 planes. (Imagine the planes as knives cutting through a cube-shaped cake.) (GuyBarry)

3691: Post code 3691 is in Victoria, Australia. It includes some splendid place names, such as Allans Flat, Baranduda and Barnawartha North. (More in the original post.) (tetsabb)

3702: 3702 = 3 x 1234. (GuyBarry)

3714: The late South African cricketer Hansie Cronje - banned for life after involvement in a match-fixing scandal - scored 3714 runs in 68 Test matches. (GuyBarry)

3720: 3720 to 1 is used as a slang term for something unlikely. It derives from odds given by C3PO in Star Wars on successfully navigating an asteroid field. (Big Martin)

3735: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, located at 3735 Capilano Road, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is one of Vancouver's most popular tourist attractions. (GuyBarry)

3742: Norfolk Heritage Explorer No. NHER3742 is a Bronze Age bowl barrow known as the "Hill of Peace" at Gayton in the west of Norfolk. (Big Martin)

3753: 3753 Cruithne is a Q-type, Aten asteroid in orbit around the Sun in 1: 1 orbital resonance with Earth, making it a co-orbital object. (Strawberry)

3760: 3760 BC corresponds with the first year of the Hebrew calendar. (Big Martin)

3770: 3770 is 2222 in base 12. (GuyBarry)

3788: The Whipple Museum's item Wh.3788 is one of Charles Darwin's microscopes. (Big Martin)

3797: Allegedly, Nostradamus' last prophecy is about the year 3797. (Big Martin)

3801: 3801 is arguably Australia's most famous steam locomotive, being the only one to have visited all main line states and territories. It originally ran from 1943 to 1976, and then re-entered service from 1986 to 2006 under a company called 3801 Limited. It is currently in the custodianship of the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. (GuyBarry)

3812: Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen, including airmen who died over Europe and sailors from North American convoys. (Strawberry)

3828: Chornobyl.3828 or Chernobyl.3828 is a 2011 Ukrainian documentary film about the Chernobyl disaster. The film is named for the 3828 people who worked in this area. (GuyBarry)

3835: The South African-born former England cricketer Jonathan Trott scored 3835 runs in 52 Tests before retiring from international cricket in May 2015. (GuyBarry)

3842: Le 3842 Restaurant in Chamonix in south-eastern France, situated at the summit of the Aiguille du Midi at 3842 metres, is one of the highest restaurants in Europe. (GuyBarry)

3849: The longest yoga chain involved 3849 participants at an event organised by the Kshatriya Vidhyasala Managing Board (India) in Tamilnadu, India, on 14 November 2014. The length of the chain measured 3852m. (Big Martin)

3856: Here's a link to an article about two clothes shops in Venice: La Casa di Loto at Dorsoduro 3856, and 3856 (trentottocinquantasei) at Dorsoduro 3749. Confusing, eh? (GuyBarry)

3871: In mid-2017 it was reported that an unnamed Canadian special forces operator, based in Iraq, had set a new record of 3871 yards for sniping. (Ed.)

3874: On the 28th of June, 1927, the first non-stop flight between the United States and Hawaii was made by U.S. Lts. Albert F. Hegenbergen and Lester J. Maitland. They flew 2,407 miles (3,874 km) from Oakland to Honolulu in 25 hours, 30 minutes. (Strawberry)

3879: According to Eaton's Blackout Tracker Annual Report, there were 3879 instances in the United States in 2016 when the power went out for more than 48 minutes. Nearly 18 million people were affected. (GuyBarry)

3901: The world's largest coast guard vessel is the 12,000-ton China Coast Guard cutter CCG 3901, which successfully completed its first patrol in the South China Sea in May 2017, according to Chinese government reports. (GuyBarry)

3906: Chronicles From the Future is the story of Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health, who falls into a one-year-long coma. During this time, his consciousness slides into the future and enters the body of another man in 3906 A.D. It purports to be a true story (and is claimed to be so on a number of internet sites) but is actually the work of George Papachatzis, later prominent Professor of Law and Rector of Panteion University of Greece. (GuyBarry)

3917: Another asteroid name I like - 3917 is Franz Schubert. (Big Martin)

3927: If you take the eighth root of 3927, you get 2.813569274..., which has all nine digits from 1-9 in its first nine decimal places. 3927 is the smallest integer with this property. (GuyBarry)

3939: 3939 is a French public information service. By phoning 3939 you can talk to a specialist adviser from one of several government ministries: labour, the interior, justice, housing or competition, consumption and repression of fraud. (GuyBarry)

3949: The first edition of Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (The University of Wales Dictionary) was first published in four volumes between 1967 and 2002, containing 7.3 million words of texts in 3,949 pages, documenting 105,000 headwords. (Strawberry)

3960: 3960 degrees is equal to 11 complete revolutions. (GuyBarry)

3971: The Smile 3971 Edit is an attempt to combine 1967 material from the Beach Boys album with material recorded in 2004 (1967 + 2004 = 3971) to get the best of both. (Big Martin)

3987: In the Simpsons episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", the "equation" 3987¹² + 4365¹² = 4472¹² appears. If it were true, it would violate Fermat's Last Theorem, the classic result in number theory that was finally proved in 1994. It isn't actually true, but the two sides agree to 10 of 44 decimal digits. (See also #4365.) (GuyBarry)

3990: Loathe (stylised as LOATHE) are an English heavy metal band formed in Liverpool, England in 2012, from the demise of other bands, including Our Imbalance. In 2017, they released their 1st album, The Cold Sun. It has 12 songs and the 6th song is called 3990. (Strawberry)