The Quite Incredible Number List: 4001-4100
| 4001 | The Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar was favoured by quite a number of rock band bassists. Charisma record CDS4001 is The Trick of the Tail by Genesis, on which Mike Rutherford plays a Rickenbacker 4001. | Big Martin |
| 4002 | In contrast to prevailing thought, the Rickenbacker 4002 was not a limited edition. Being a luxury edition of the 4001, a lot of bass players simply didn't see the point of buying one and so it was discontinued unusually quickly. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 4003 | GWR steam locomotive 4003 is a Star class 4-6-0 named Lode Star. It was built at Swindon in 1907 and is now in the National Railway Museum collection. | Big Martin |
| 4004 | Pubmed entry 4004 reports the presence of Culiseta melanura in Quebec in 1975. That's a worry because this, the black tailed mosquito, is the principal vector of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus which affects not only horses (fever, sometimes with depression) but causes "Sudden onset posterior paralysis of ducklings". | BobTheScientist |
| 4005 | The WDS 4005 is a vertical toggle clamp with a solid arm. | Big Martin |
| 4006 | The S & W Model 4006 was a semi-automatic handgun introduced by Smith & Wesson on the 17th of January, 1990 along with the new .40 cartridge. It is a 3rd-generation S&W pistol. | Strawberry |
| 4007 | The West Midlands Bus Photos website includes 5 pictures of NXWM bus 4007. | Big Martin |
| 4008 | The Peugeot 4008 is a compact SUV, introduced in Sept 2011. It can be purchased from Von Bibra Prestige Motors in Southport, on the Gold Coast of Australia. | tetsabb |
| 4009 | The Sea Tel 4009 is a 3-axis stabilised marine antenna system. | Big Martin |
| 4010 | The John Deere 4010 is a cracking looking tractor from the 1960s. Elvis bought one in 1967. | Baryonyx |
| 4011 | The Austrian Federal Railway class 4011 are tilting high speed electrical multiple unit trains. | Big Martin |
| 4012 | SOS phone 4012J is at J1 of the M65 in Lancashire, not far from Chorley. | tetsabb |
| 4013 | Minor planet 4013 is named Ogiria and was discovered in 1979. | Big Martin |
| 4014 | Union Pacific 4014, or UP 4014, is a four-cylinder articulated 4-8-8-4 Big Boy-type steam locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad. 4014 was retired from service on the 21st of July, 1959, and donated to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in Pomona, United States, in December 1961. The locomotive reached its destination in January 1962 and was displayed in Fairplex through 2013. Thereafter, Union Pacific 4014 was moved to Union Pacific's Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, where it was restored back to running condition. It returned to service in May 2019 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's completion. | Strawberry |
| 4015 | In the 2021/22 academic year there were 4015 state-funded schools in England with 587,660 pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. | Ed. |
| 4016 | The Neoplan N4016 is a low-floor bus model from the manufacturer Gottlob Auwarter GmbH & Co. It was first built at the Stuttgart plant, later also in Poland. | Strawberry |
| 4017 | ISO 4017 is a standard for hexagon head screws. | Big Martin |
| 4018 | Park Street in Bristol runs steeply from College Green in the city centre up to the Clifton Triangle, with a dramatic view of the Wills Memorial Building at the top. It forms part of the A4018. | GuyBarry |
| 4019 | The postcode of Margate in Queensland, Australia is 4019. | Ed. |
| 4020 | In Australia Public Interest Criterion 4020 concerns people trying to get visas using fraudulent documentation, or if the minister in question suspects the person is not who they say they are. | tetsabb |
| 4021 | Dunston Hill Community Primary School is at Market Lane, Dunston, Gateshead, NE11 9NX. The phone number is 0191 433 4021. | Strawberry |
| 4022 | Esci plastic kit 4022 is a 1/48 scale model of a MiG23S aircraft. | Big Martin |
| 4023 | Mercedes Benz U 4023 Ultimog is a cool utility vehicle. | Baryonyx |
| 4024 | Pantone colour 19-4024 is called Dress Blues. | Big Martin |
| 4025 | Argentine Pass, elevation 4025 metres, is a high mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. Argentine Pass is located on the coast of the Front Range along the boundary South-West of Georgetown and is the highest-named vehicle-accessible pass in the state. | Strawberry |
| 4026 | NGC4026 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1789. | Big Martin |
| 4027 | The B4027 is a rural B-road to the northeast of Oxford. This would be fairly unremarkable were it not for the fact that in the 1990s, the same number was given to a road east of Coventry, which had previously been the A427. Eventually in the 2000s the authorities realized their error and renumbered it again to the B4428 - its fifth number in succession! | GuyBarry |
| 4028 | Studio 4028 calls itself Fort Lauderdale's premier satellite-equipped soundstage. | Big Martin |
| 4029 | My Place Polish restaurant is at 57, Broadway, Cardiff, CF24-1QE. The phone number is 029 2030 4029. | Strawberry |
| 4030 | 40-30 is the highest score in tennis that is conventionally called in numbers. | GuyBarry |
| 4031 | St. James Presbyterian Church is at 1991, Hwy640 (Hanwell Road), Hanwell, New Brunswick, E3C-1Z5, Canada. The phone number is (506) 450-4031. | Strawberry |
| 4032 | Cakes of Distinction by Bachmans is at 4032, Presidential Pkwy, Powell, OH 43065, United States. | Strawberry |
| 4033 | 4033 is the Norwegian postal code for Stavanger. It is also the postal code for Basel in Switzerland, Santa Cruz in the Philippines and Hurontario in Canada to name a few. | Big Martin |
| 4034 | In June, the Kepler space telescope found 219 new exoplanets, boosting the total to 4034. | GuyBarry |
| 4035 | GWR locomotive 4035 was a Star class engine of the Queen series and named Queen Charlotte. Built in 1910, she served until 1951 and was working from Bath Road depot near Bristol Temple Meads at that point. | Big Martin |
| 4036 | In the following sequence, the first two terms are 0 and 5. After that, each term is the sum of the previous two terms, plus 1. The first few terms of the sequence are:
| 0, 5, 6, 12, 19, 32, 52, 85, 138, 224, 363, 588, 952, 1541, 2494, 4036, ... |
| GuyBarry |
| 4037 | The Brilliant Maps website has a map of the 4,037 cities in the world with over 100,000 people. | Big Martin |
| 4038 | The 1989 science fiction film Arena is set in the year 4038. | GuyBarry |
| 4039 | 4039 is a song by Dry Kill Logic, a heavy metal band from Westchester County, New York.
Lot 4039 at an auction in Phoenix, Arizona in October was a vintage metal folding desk. | Big Martin |
| 4040 | Several things are associated with 4040, including a road in Florida, United States, a road in Birmingham, England and an asteroid. | Strawberry |
| 4041 | Vodka 4041 is described as "the result of 119 years of experience and expertise in alcohol production and distillation by the oldest and only Greek distillery, B.G. Spiliopoulos". | GuyBarry |
| 4042 | The A4042 runs from Abergavenny to Newport. | Big Martin |
| 4043 | 4043 aluminium alloy is a wrought aluminium alloy with good corrosion resistance typically used as filler material for welding of aluminium parts. | GuyBarry |
| 4044 | In 2021, there were 4044 deaths from Parkinson's disease in the state of California. | Ed. |
| 4045 | The maximum depth of the Adriatic Sea is 4045 feet (1233 metres). | GuyBarry |
| 4046 | The Smith & Wesson Model 4046 is a .40 calibre semi-automatic pistol. | Ed. |
| 4047 | An acre is equal to approximately 4047 square metres. | GuyBarry |
| 4048 | The Narmer Catalog item 4048 is a Qa'a mortuary seal impression discovered during excavations in Abydos. | Big Martin |
| 4049 | 4049 is a prime number, but if you slice its decimal representation into any two non-empty parts, neither of them is prime (404 and 9; 40 and 49; 4 and 049). 4049 is the smallest four-digit prime with this property. | GuyBarry |
| 4050 | Dorset 4050 Walkers is a member group of the Ramblers. | Big Martin |
| 4051 | CD4051B is a Single 8-Channel Analog Multiplexer/Demultiplexer chip. | Efros |
| 4052 | In 2007 there were 4052 km of navigable waterways in Kazakhstan. | Ed. |
| 4053 | The A4053 Coventry ring road has been described as one of the scariest roads in the country. Eight out of its nine junctions are grade-separated, and the average distance between junctions is 430 yards. Incidentally, only one road sign actually shows the number. | GuyBarry |
| 4054 | 4054 has the same set of digits in base 9 and in base 10 (405410 = 55049). | Ed. |
| 4055 | The 4055 family of slide rules, first released in 1927, is of the Mannheim type and named "Favorite". | GuyBarry |
| 4056 | Species 4056 on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee's list is the Ramshorn snail Anisus vorticulus. | Big Martin |
| 4057 | The B4057 is in two disconnected sections in the northern suburbs of Bristol, Shirehampton-Henbury and Filton-Winterbourne. It used to be continuous until someone thoughtlessly built Filton Airfield over the middle of it! | GuyBarry |
| 4058 | 4058 is the course code for a Sydney university Economics subject. | Awitt |
| 4059 | A Pythagorean triple is a set of three integers that could be the sides of a right-angled triangle - i.e. the sum of the squares of the first two is equal to the square of the last one (e.g. 3, 4, 5, because 9 + 16 = 25). The Pythagorean triple 4059, 4060, 5741 is interesting because the two shorter sides differ by only 1 in length, so the triangle is very close to being isosceles. This is the only such example where the sides are all four-digit numbers. | GuyBarry |
| 4060 | 4060 is a restaurant in Potosi, Bolivia. | Big Martin |
| 4061 | Ella and Basie! was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald with the Count Basie orchestra in 1963. Its catalogue number is Verve V6-4061. | GuyBarry |
| 4062 | The Ricoh AE04-4062 is an upper fuser picker finger (which appears to be a part for a laser printer). | Big Martin |
| 4063 | The following sequence is similar to the Fibonacci sequence, but the first three terms are all 1 and every succeeding term is the sum of the three terms before it:
| 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 9, 17, 31, 57, 105, 193, 355, 653, 1201, 2209, 4063, ... |
| GuyBarry |
| 4064 | IMR 4064 is a military rifle propellant. | Big Martin |
| 4065 | Episode 4065 of Sesame Street features 'Adiós' as its Spanish word of the day. | Baryonyx |
| 4066 | 4066 (four thousand and sixty-six) is the highest number below 6000 that does not have the letter "e" in its English name. | GuyBarry |
| 4067 | Between October 2016 to September 2017, 4067 European nurses and midwives left the Nursing & Midwifery Council register in the UK. Between October 2015 to September 2016, the figure was 2435. | fwk |
| 4068 | This extract from "The Elements of Arithmetic", by the distinguished 19th-century mathematician Augustus De Morgan, explains in words how to divide 4068 by 18 using the technique of long division. | GuyBarry |
| 4069 | Emanem recording 4069 is 6 Dialogues by Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston - improvised jazz on saxophones and piano. | Big Martin |
| 4070 | 4070 Blues is a track on the album Sahib's Jazz Party by American jazz saxophonist Sahib Shihab. | GuyBarry |
| 4071 | The CMOS 4071 is an electronic logical OR gate (outputs a 1 if any of these inputs are 1, or outputs a 0 only if all inputs are 0). | Ed. |
| 4072 | In five-card poker with deuces (twos) wild, there are 4072 possible hands containing a straight flush. | GuyBarry |
| 4073 | The GWR 4073 class of locomotives were the Castle class, built between 1923 and 1950. | Big Martin |
| 4074 | The A4074 is the "back road" from Reading to Oxford - the recommended route for HGVs being via the M4 and A34. | GuyBarry |
| 4075 | Canmore site 4075 is the former whaling station at Bunavoneader on Harris in the Hebrides. | Big Martin |
| 4076 | The Rotarian of April 1927 claimed that one Western US town, keen on their anti-speed crusade, displayed a road sign which read as follows: "Last year 4076 people died of gas. 29 inhaled it; 37 put a lighted match to it; and 4016 stepped on it!" (The numbers don't actually add up to 4076, but let that pass...) | GuyBarry |
| 4077 | You can't let the number 4077 go by without mentioning M*A*S*H. The series followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. The lyrics of its theme tune, "Suicide is Painless", were written by a 14-year-old child, Michael Altman, with no other experience of songwriting, who subsequently became a millionaire from the song. | Big Martin/GuyBarry |
| 4078 | In item 4078 of Monty Python, A Chronology, dated February 28 2012, Eric Idle attends the opening night of Spamalot at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles. | GuyBarry |
| 4079 | There were 4079 cheeses from 45 countries in the 2021 World Cheese Awards. | Ed. |
| 4080 | "Industry rule number four thousand and eighty, Record company people are shady." From the lyrics to "Check the Rhime" by the hip-hop band A Tribe Called Quest, released in 1991. | GuyBarry |
| 4081 | Item 4081 on the NCBI taxonomy database is Solanum lycopersicum - the tomato. | Big Martin |
| 4082 | David Moyes served for 4082 days as manager of Everton, making him the third longest-serving Premier League manager after Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson. | GuyBarry |
| 4083 | The Racal MA-4083 is an encryption device for military radio sets. | Big Martin |
| 4084 | Chaalis Chauraasi (Hindi for 4084) is a Bollywood crime comedy film released in 2012. | GuyBarry |
| 4085 | Sharp, Stewart & Co's works number 4085 was a 0-4-4 tank locomotive built for the 4th Duke of Sutherland in 1895. It was named Dunrobin and was used to run his private trains under an agreement which was in place until 1949. The loco went to Canada in the 1960s, but is now back in the UK being assessed for restoration work. | Big Martin |
| 4086 | From Education Index, here's an Introduction to Business in 4086 words. | GuyBarry |
| 4087 | Project Gutenberg eBook 4087 is Daniel Defoe's An Essay Upon Projects. | Big Martin |
| 4088 | 4088 is the smallest positive integer whose square is the sum of 73 consecutive squares: 40882 = 16711744 = 4422+4432+...+5142. | GuyBarry |
| 4089 | 4089: Ghost Within is a computer game. | Big Martin |
| 4090 | In 2008, the St Wite's Cross was chosen as the official flag of Dorset, following a public vote in which 4090 votes were received. | GuyBarry |
| 4091 | Westfire Stair Parts' item 4091 is an Amish-made red oak box newel post. | Big Martin |
| 4092 | According to a blog post by Dr Roy Spencer, a survey of 4092 members of the American Metereological Society in 2016 found that only 67% of them agreed that climate change was mostly or entirely caused by human beings. | GuyBarry |
| 4093 | Playmobil set 4093 is an animal baby zoo. | Big Martin |
| 4094 | At the 2010 census, the population of Lake of the Woods in Navajo County, Arizona was 4094. | GuyBarry |
| 4095 | Microsoft support offers advice on how to overcome the 4,095 MB paging file size limit in Windows. | Big Martin |
| 4096 | 4096 = 212 = 46 = 84 = 163 = 642. | GuyBarry |
| 4097 | The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4097 years earlier in ancient Babylon. | Big Martin |
| 4098 | The boiling point of platinum is 4098 kelvin. | Ed. |
| 4099 | In 1872 William Towers was 12 years old. He was caught stealing two rabbits — possibly for food for his family. As punishment William was sent to Wandsworth prison. He was Prisoner 4099. A group of students created and performed a play inspired by William's experience using real historical documents. The actual records still exist and are kept in The National Archives. | bemahan |
| 4100 | According to the Recycling Coalition of Utah, one ton of recycled paper saves 4100 kWh of electricity. | GuyBarry |