The Quite Incredible Number List: Pick of the 2000s

2008: 2008 was the International Year of the Potato. (vanjeet)

2022: In the 1964 film Goldfinger, the antagonist Auric Goldfinger, states that he planned to release an atomic device over Fort Knox's gold vault, which would make the gold useless for 58 years. If the plan was set in motion, the gold would be radiated until 2022. (Strawberry)

2030: In the Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future", first aired in March 2000, a fortune teller gave Bart a glimpse of 2030 - just weeks after Trump vacated the White House. (bemahan)

2038: The Year 2038 Problem is a potential threat to computing and data storage. (Big Martin)

2048: "2048" is a fascinating and addictive online tile-shifting game. (GuyBarry)

2049: There won't be a full moon on a Friday the 13th until August 2049. (bemahan)

2056: Canadia: 2056 is a Canadian radio comedy series which premiered on CBC Radio One in April 2007. A science fiction comedy written by Matt Watts, the series centres on Max Anderson, the American liaison on board the only Canadian spaceship in an otherwise American space fleet headed towards a galactic war with the planet Ipampilash. (Strawberry)

2060: Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060. (Strawberry)

2069: 2069:A Sex Odyssey is a "special interest" film of 1974. (Big Martin)

2083: The maximum URL length in Internet Explorer is 2083 characters. (AlmondFacialBar)

2093: An Age (published in the U.S. as Cryptozoic!) is a 1967 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The book, set principally in 2093, combines the popular science fiction themes of time travel, totalitarian dystopia, and the untapped potential of the human mind. It was nominated for a Ditmar Award in 1969 in the "Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection" category. (Strawberry)

2107: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to a Song & Dance is a book. It is an omnibus of four books previously written by Charles Earle Funk: A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions (1948), Thereby Hangs a Tale (1950), Heavens to Betsy! (1955) and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words (1958). It is illustrated by Tom Funk and was published in 1999 by Galahad Books. (Strawberry)

2122: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place at 2122, North Clark Street. (Strawberry)

2131: Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles broke the world record for most baseball games ever played consecutively when he played his 2131st consecutive game on 6th September, 1995, breaking a record by Lou Gehrig that had stood for 56 years and been deemed unbreakable. He still holds the record, having clocked up 2632 consecutive games by 19th September, 1998. (AlmondFacialBar)

2144: Lectionary 2144 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on five parchment leaves. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2156: Frequency 2156 claims to be a digital radio broadcast from the year 2156, twenty years after most of humanity has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust. None the less, the small group of Scandinavians who survive appear to have the technology to transmit signals 141 years into the past, via a "time-lapse feedback device". (GuyBarry/TCF)

2161: 2161 is a prime factor of 111111111111111111111111111111. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2174: NGC 2174 is known as the Monkey Head Nebula. (Efros)

2175: The Appalachian Trail is 2175 miles long. (AlmondFacialBar)

2182: 2182 KHz is the international frequency for marine distress calls in the MF band. (AlmondFacialBar)

2183: SOS phone 2183b is on the M50 near Ledbury in the Malverns and the wonderful placename of Redmarley d'Abitot. (tetsabb)

2201: 2201 is the only non-palindromic number known to have a palindromic cube (10662526601). (GuyBarry/TCF)

2207: NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding galaxies in the constellation of Canis Major. (Big Martin)

2215: Letter 2215 of the Darwin Correspondence Project, from C.R. Darwin to W.E. Darwin and dated 11 Feb 1858, writes of domestic matters and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder. (bemahan)

2223: 2223 is a Kaprekar number, which means that its square can be split into two parts that sum to the original number: 2223² = 4941729, 494 + 1729 = 2223. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2240: According to a number of Jewish scholars, the year 6000 (2240) of the Hebrew calendar is the latest time for the initiation of the Messianic Age. (Strawberry)

2248: #2248 is Roseville Elk Lodge. B.P.O.E. stands for The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (or as they are affectionately known, the Best People On Earth). Elks are American Citizens who want to save its great values; who love others and want to make sure they are healthy and happy; and who love life and want to contribute to it, as well as to share it. As a member, we find there is nothing better than serving our community through the various activities and charities supported by our local Elks Lodge. (bemahan)

2265: Roman Inscriptions of Britain's RIB 2265 is a milestone of Hadrian that was found buried in a farm in Wales. (Big Martin)

2279: Flight NZ 2279 from Blenheim to Christchurch was subject to an unsuccessful hijacking attempt on 8th February, 2008. Apparently the would-be hijacker wanted the pilot to fly the plane across to Australia. Given that we're talking about a 19 seater turboprop here I fear she hadn't quite thought that through. (AlmondFacialBar)

2291: It was reported in 2015 that Boris Johnson (then Mayor of London and MP for Uxbridge) was being paid £2291 per hour to write his column in the Daily Telegraph. (Wirish)

2298: NGC 2298 is a globular cluster in the Southern constellation of Puppis. It was discovered in 1826, and could be part of the small (1 billion star) Canis Major sub- galaxy, not far from our own Milky Way. There is some dispute as to whether it is a separate body, or simply a bit of the Milky Way coming adrift. (tetsabb)

2304: 2304 = 2⁶ x 6². (WordLover)

2319: "2319! We have a 2319!" A company or factory code in the Monsters Inc. world. When an employee is contaminated with a foreign object of a human child, a 2319 goes into effect and alerts the Child Detection Agency (CDA). The CDA removes and destroys the foreign object, shaves and cleans the employee from any contamination and puts a cone around his head to protect himself from biting. (bemahan)

2324: RFC 2324 is a communications protocol for controlling, monitoring and diagnosing coffee pots in HTTP, which was published as part of an April Fools' prank in 1998. (AlmondFacialBar)

2334: The ancient Akkadian Empire, mostly in the region of modern-day Iraq, was established in approximately 2334 BC. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2341: SOS phones 2341A/B are on the M61 near Preston and Blackburn. Three places not very far away are interestingly named -- Samlesbury Bottoms, Pleasington, and Feniscowles. (tetsabb)

2355: The only landfall in the path of the Total Solar Eclipse of June 11 2355 (according to current prediction) is Marion Island, an area of 19 km long by 12 km wide which lies at 46°52'34" South 37°51'32" East in the Southern Indian Ocean. (ellylles)

2361: Vortex, a rollercoaster at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, is 2361 feet long. (ellylles)

2380: In August 2015 it was revealed that 2,380 people had subsequently died after being told they were too fit to qualify for Employment and Support Allowance. (Big Martin)

2385: 2385 is the lowest integer whose 7th power (438953669202737191640625) contains the same digits as another 7th power (viz. 2514⁷ = 634683069516971272293504). (WordLover)

2392: In 1964, Paddy Hopkirk and Andrew Hedges drove the MGB 2392 miles at an average speed of 99.9 miles per hour to win the "Motor" trophy for the highest placed British entry at Le Mans. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2401: 2401 = (2+4+0+1)⁴. (WordLover)

2412: 2412 is the part number of a Lego brick often used to firm the grille at the front of a car. (bemahan)

2421: 2421 Decimal Code is a weighted code, whose weights are 2, 4, 2 and 1. A decimal number is represented in 4-bit form and total weight of the four bits = 2 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 9. Hence the 2421 code can be used to represent the decimal digits 0 to 9. (Wirish)

2434: There are 2434 legal king moves in chess. (WordLover)

2440: Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One" is a utopian novel first published in 1770. It was translated into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred [sic]. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2447: There is a legal case in the USA known as Pennsylvania v 2,447 Bottles of Wine. (Big Martin)

2455: SOS phone 2455A is on the A404(M) just off J9a of the M4. This is not far from the village of Bray, which currently contains Heston Blumenthal's restaurant the Fat Duck (tetsabb)

2467: NGC 2467 is a star-forming region, popularly known as the "Skull and Crossbones nebula," whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colourful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. This region was one of the areas featured in the book Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson. (Strawberry)

2476: 101, 103, 107 and 109 are all prime. So are 247601, 247603, 247607 and 247609. (WordLover)

2489: Imperial War Museum catalogue number EPH 2489 is a beaded snake made by a Turkish POW. (Big Martin)

2493: In 2003 the cognitive scientist Douglas R. Hofstadter wrote an essay entitled Just Who Will We Be, in 2493? (GuyBarry/TCF)

2504: There were 2504 inmates on Death Row in the US in April 2021. (Ed.)

2512: 2512 is a monthly news magazine published in Réunion. Its name refers to the size in square kilometres of this French overseas department, which is located in the Indian Ocean. (Strawberry)

2520: 2520 is the lowest positive integer which is divisible by every positive integer up to 10:

2520 = 1 x 2520 = 2 x 1260 = 3 x 840 = 4 x 630 = 5 x 504 = 6 x 420 = 7 x 360

= 8 x 315 = 9 x 280 = 10 x 252

(WordLover)

2525: In the Year 2525 is a 1969 hit song by Zager and Evans. ('yorz)

2540: U-2540 "Wilhelm Bauer" is a German WW2 submarine. Launched at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in January 1945 she never saw battle and was sunk off Kiel by her own crew on 4th May, 1945. (AlmondFacialBar)

2557: Here's a link to an article about a man that ran 2557 miles across Australia. With a wheelbarrow. (Strawberry)

2562: Dave Huismans, better known by his stage name as 2562, is a musician from The Hague, Netherlands. (bemahan)

2581: "2581=?" is a puzzle game on Android. (vanjeet)

2592: 2592 = 2⁵ x 9². (WordLover)

2600: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specialises in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground". (Strawberry)

2601: 2601 = 51², and is also the 17th pentagonal pyramid number. (WordLover)

2609: It's 2609 miles from Dublin to Beirut. (AlmondFacialBar)

2621: In Sesame Street episode 2621 from 1989 Kermit interviews Prince Charming after Cinderella's escape and it turns out the prince doesn't want Cinderella, but her other slipper. (AlmondFacialBar)

2625: 2625 - a sex strategy. Consult the Urban Dictionary at your own peril. ('yorz)

2635: There are 2635 possible 6-bead necklaces when 5 different colours of bead are available. (WordLover)

2649: A greeting card designed by Benedict Cumberbatch for a charity auction in 2014 sold at that auction for £2649. (AlmondFacialBar)

2666: 2666 is the last novel by Robert Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it relates, among other things, the unsolved and ongoing homicides of Ciudad Juárez (called Santa Teresa in the novel), the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. The apocalyptic 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, and stories within stories. (Strawberry)

2675: 2675 Tolkien is a stony asteroid discovered in 1982. (Big Martin)

2688: The Egg Nebula (also known as RAFGL 2688 and CRL 2688) is a bipolar protoplanetary nebular approximately 3,000 light-years away from Earth. Its peculiar properties were first described in 1975 using the survey obtained with sounding rocket by Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (AFGL) in 1971 to 1974. (Previously, the object was catalogued by Fritz Zwicky as a pair of galaxies.) (Strawberry)

2700: Merit-Ptah, the world's first female physician, is mentioned in Egyptian records of c2700 BCE. (Big Martin)

2704: Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game set in the year 2704. (Wirish)

2711: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin consists of 2711 concrete stelae. (AlmondFacialBar)

2714: In the USA, World War II didn't officially finish until the end of 1946. Proclamation 2714 was signed by President Harry S. Truman on December 31, 1946, to officially declare the cessation of all hostilities. The state of war was not lifted off Japan and Germany until then in order to give a reason for the necessity of occupation troops in those countries. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2727: Sesame Street episode 2727 originally aired on 17th April, 1990, and contains a segment about Sherlock Hemlock and a phonebooth. (AlmondFacialBar)

2731: There are 2731 ways to tie a tie into a knot with 15 turns, if ways which are mirror-images of each other are counted as the same. And if the tie is long enough for 15 turns! (WordLover)

2737: The British Library catalogue of illuminated manuscripts item Oriental 2737 is a Hebrew Haggadah for Passover made in Castile in the late C13th or early C14th. (Big Martin)

2753: The population of this configuration is 2753. Rules: There's a grid of squares. Each may be either black or white. A clock ticks. At tick 0, one square is black and all the other squares are white. For each square, count how many of these 5 squares are black: that square itself and the 4 squares next to it. If 1 of them is black, or if all 5 are black, then (one tick later) that square will be black; otherwise it will be white. The pic is the situation at tick 63. (WordLover)

2757: Wagon Lits carriage 2757 was used as part of a pub in Denham for a number of years. Since the pub closed it has been under restoration. (Big Martin)

2762: At 2,762 miles (4,445 km), the Golden State train had the longest route in the United States and second only to the Canadian Pacific Railway's Imperial Limited in North America. (Strawberry)

2784: On 28 July 2011, it was announced that the 2784th baby had been vaccinated in South Africa as part of a clinical trial of a new vaccine against tuberculosis - the last baby in the trial, almost two years to the day after the study was first announced. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2812: In December 2014, the sitting Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan received all 2812 votes at his party's convention to become candidate for the 2015 presidential election. However he lost the subsequent election to his rival Muhammadu Buhari. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2820: A period of 2820 years is used as a base to calculate leap years in the Iranian/Persian Calendar. (JivviWesty)

2829: 2829 Bobhope is a small main hole asteroid, which was discovered by E. L. Johnson. It is named after American comedian Bob Hope. It is estimated to measure 38.26 km in diameter. (Strawberry)

2833: The Methuselah tree, for many years considered the world's oldest living tree, has an estimated germination date of 2833 BC. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2836: New Scientist Issue 2836 came out in October 2011, with a cover story on the decline of respect for science in the USA, and a report of female monkeys indulging in 'synchronised sex'. (tetsabb)

2840: The Edward C. Waller Apartments are located from 2840 to 2858, W. Walnut Street in Chicago, Illinois. They were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1895. Some of the oldest buildings to be used for subsidised housing in Chicago, they received Chicago Landmark status on the 2nd of March, 1994. (Strawberry)

2869: 2869 is a centred icosahedral number, or central cuboctahedral number. The first few such numbers are 1, 13, 55, 147, 309, 561, 923, 1415, 2057, 2869. And here is some info about them, with pictures of some of them in icosahedral and cuboctahedral modes. (WordLover)

2873: The American baseball player Babe Ruth scored 2873 hits during his career. (GuyBarry/TCF)

2877: According to American Scientist, hundreds of space walks have been conducted since the beginning of human space exploration, including those on the surface of the Moon, from the Space Shuttle, and from the International Space Station. Over the past 50 years more than 2,877 hours of space walks have been conducted in US space suits. (bemahan)

2894: 2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) is a utopian novel from 1894 that describes a human society with reversed gender roles. (AlmondFacialBar)

2910: There are 2910 ways to partition 48 into parts which all have different sizes, e.g. 1+2+3+4+5+6+8+9+10. There are also 2910 ways to partition 48 into parts which are all odd, e.g. 11+11+13+13. (The two totals are equal for any number, not just 48.) (WordLover)

2920: 2920: The Last Year of the First Era is a book by Carlovac Townway set in the World of Warcraft. (Big Martin)

2929: 2929 Productions is an American media group involved in the likes of Sex and the City. (Big Martin)

2937: On 1st July 2002 there was a mid-air collision over Uberlingen in southern Germany. One of the aircraft was Bashkirian Air Flight 2937. The enquiry found certain aspects of Air Traffic COntrol to be at fault, and a Controller was later murdered by a Russian chap who lost family members in the crash. (tetsabb)

2956: Mount Kisokoma is 2,956 m (9, 698) ft tall and is the tallest peak in the Kiso Mountains. (Strawberry)

2965: Harley manuscript 2965 is the Book of Nunnaminster, a collection of Gospel extracts and prayers dating from the early 9th century. (Big Martin)

2969: New Scientist edition 2969 came out in May 2014 with articles about a new approach to dealing with violence, insomnia and ripples in the early universe. (tetsabb)

2973: House of Commons early day motion 2973 was to note the 80th anniversary of the Kinder Scout trespass. (Big Martin)

2990: Doggon' Wheels UK are based in Woolhampton, Berkshire. They make equipment for disabled animals and the phone number is 0118 971 2990. (Strawberry)

2996: The September 11 attacks killed 2996 people. (Strawberry)