1415 is the largest integer less than 10[sup]4[/sup]·frac(π) – or, equivalently, the first four digits of π’s decimal expansion.
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What the bathroom scale read recently.
2001
Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” was based on Arthur C. Clarke’s story “The Sentinel.”
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Threescore geese, minus the one who flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
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Wonders of the ancient world.
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Classic muscle car – Oldsmobile 442.
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In cents of a U.S. dollar, the amount of money one has if one has one each of the coins of denominations less than a dollar (penny, nickel, dime, quarter and half dollar).
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Morse code shorthand for “Best Regards”.
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Cleveland, Ohio area code.
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A Delta flight leaving LA for Las Vegas shortly.
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110: percentage of team effort demanded by coaches in pep talks.
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Four-engine jet airliner built by Boeing from 1958 to 1979.
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2014 Scientific America conducted a survey of peoples favourite numbers and from 30,025 submissions the lowest whole number that failed to pick up any votes was 110.
Ergo 110 was nominated as the world’s least-loved number.
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Sydney Bus Route from Lane Cove to the QVB,
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I got my driver’s license!
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Stone weight is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds.
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The digits of 578 sum to 5+8+7=20 while the digits of 587[sup]3[/sup] = 202262003 sum to only 2+2+2+6+2+3 = 17. The number 5780 has the same property of course, but otherwise we must wait for 28847 to find another number whose digit sum exceeds the digit sum of its cube. (And, since 587 and 97 are both prime, who could forget that inserting 587 zeros between 9 and 7 produces a 589-digit prime?)
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1513 was the first year in which a human being of European ancestry set foot on what is now the continental mainland of the United States of America. Hs name was Ponce de Leon.
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Darth Vader’s initials, interpreted as a Roman numeral.
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The epitome of Levis straight leg jeans.
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The year that Nero ceased to be Emperor of Rome and died (in that order).
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