# The consecutive number game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020 "2003-07-08T16:06:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/861 "2003-10-04T18:07:48Z")
          \*\* 784\*\*   784 is the product of 2 squares = 16 \* 49   784 = 4[sup]2[/sup] \* 7[sup]2[/sup]   Note that this equation uses 2 of the 3 digits of 784 ---
**Author:** ![Ailia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Ailia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ailia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/862 "2003-10-04T18:17:21Z")
**785** : Union representing firefighters in Lewiston, Maine, according to their website ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/863 "2003-10-04T22:34:48Z")
Jason Rekulak wrote The Writer’s Block: [786 Ideas](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0762409487/002-3069158-9314459?v=glance) to Jump-Start Your Imagination. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/864 "2003-10-04T23:48:51Z")
Is there a Boeing 787? If not, let’s design one. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/865 "2003-10-05T01:40:39Z")
Morocco became an independent state in 788. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/866 "2003-10-05T08:10:23Z")
Terror on Flight **879** ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/867 "2003-10-05T17:51:59Z")
**Flamsterette\_X** You mean Flight **789**? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/868 "2003-10-05T23:01:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quiltguy154 \* > \*\*Is there a Boeing 787? If not, let’s design one. \*\* According to [this site](http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0108.shtml), “[t]here are as yet no official plans for any Boeing 787 or 797.” Still, there’s always a chance that the company would be interested in your ideas for the next generation of aircraft… Since **Flamsterette\_X** ’s link indeed leads to a Flight 789 page, I’ll pick up from there. Alberta fans of country music can listen to [790 CFCW](http://www.cfcw.com/), which broadcasts from Edmonton. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/869 "2003-10-06T17:40:46Z")
**wolf\_meister** and **Sternvogel** , I did indeed mean Flight **789**. Obviously 1:20 AM is too late for me to be up posting anything… sorry! 🙂 (that, or I transposed the numbers accidentally… believe whatever you wish) United Food and Commercial Workers Local **791** F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/870 "2003-10-06T17:47:34Z")
**792** : Number of three-digit numbers that may be used as area codes. These exclude 0 or 1 as the first digit, and numbers ending in “11,” which are reserved by telephone companies. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/871 "2003-10-06T18:05:19Z")
[Baseball Hall of Famer Tris Speaker hit the record number of **793** career doubles.]([boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/history/](http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/history/) bos\_history\_timeline\_article.jsp?article=1907) ---
**Author:** ![Single\_Serving\_Friend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Single\_Serving\_Friend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Single_Serving_Friend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/872 "2003-10-06T19:02:34Z")
In the year [794](http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/heia/hd_heia.htm) A.D. the Heian Period started in Japan, with the establishment of the Capitol in Heian-kyo (capital of “peace and tranquility,” now known as Kyoto). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/873 "2003-10-06T19:14:38Z")
A stretch of highway in Maryland and a proposed route in Florida both bear the designation [Interstate 795](http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/i795.html). Virginia missed out on a couple of chances to score its own piece of the I-795 pie. ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/874 "2003-10-06T20:18:36Z")
[click here](http://browse.adultfriendfinder.com/browse/United-States/Montana/796-2-1.html) to find 796 listings of women seeking men in Montana. Ah, the power of Google! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/875 "2003-10-07T07:09:47Z")
Erin Wigley, now a freshman guard on the University of Illinois’s women’s basketball team, grabbed [797 rebounds](http://fightingillini.ocsn.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/wigley_erin00.html) and scored 1 **797** points during her career at Pennsylvania’s Moon Area High School. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/876 "2003-10-07T10:32:38Z")
Sigered succeeds Sigeric as king of Essex in **798** AD ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/877 "2003-10-07T23:39:14Z")
A farm priced at $199,000 (Canadian) has the address of [799 Back Street](http://www.thinknovascotia.com/Property%20Pages/11344.html), Sweetland, Nova Scotia. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/878 "2003-10-08T00:56:01Z")
          **800**   The area code for toll-free telephone numbers. There are others but “800” was the first.   Also factors into a nice pallindromic pair of numbers and superscripts:  \*\* 2[sup]5[/sup] \* 5[sup]2[/sup] \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/879 "2003-10-08T06:49:37Z")
The band [801](http://www.manzanera.com/801Live1.htm) comprises Bill MacCormick, Brian Eno, Lloyd Watson, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips, and Phil Manzanera. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020/880 "2003-10-08T07:06:19Z")
JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT LOCAL **802** AFM!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-consecutive-number-game/187020.md?page=45)