# Count To A Million Thread!

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**Created:** [September 2, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-to-a-million-thread/820653 "2018-09-02T18:47:39Z")\
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5863

To poison a pigeon in the park

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5864 = 23 × 733

[Let’s do another Tom Lehrer]:

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium

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5865

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium

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5866 = 2 x 7 x 419

And nickel, neodynium, neptunium, germanium,

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5867, a prime

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium.

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5868 = 22 x 32 x 163

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,

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5869, a prime

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium

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5870 = 2 x 5 x 587

And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium

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5871

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

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5872 = 24 × 367

There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium

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5873 = 7 x 839

And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,

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5874

And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium

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5875 = 53 × 47

And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

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5876 = 22 x 13 x 113

Isn’t that interesting?

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5877

There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium

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5878 = 2 × 2939

And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium

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5879, prime.

And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,

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5880 = 23 × 3 × 5 × 72

Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium

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5881

And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium

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5882 = 2 x 17 x 173

Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,

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