The Quite Incredible Number List: 5201-5300
| 5201 | The highest mountain in Georgia, with an elevation of 5,201 metres, is Mount Shkhara in the province of Svaneti. | Big Martin |
| 5202 | 5202 = 173 + 172. | GuyBarry |
| 5203 | Embleton House B&B is at 5203, 52street, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, X1A-1T8, Canada. | Strawberry |
| 5204 | According to official figures, in 2017/8 5204 people went to Glasgow City Council for help with homelessness. | GuyBarry |
| 5205 | The GWR 5205 class locomotives were 2-8-0 tank engines designed for hauling coal trains from South Wales pits to the docks. | Big Martin |
| 5206 | UKIP's vote in the Stockport constituency in the 2017 general election was 1088 - down from 5206 in 2015, and a drop in vote share from 13.1% to 2.6%. | GuyBarry |
| 5207 | The Deutz Fahr 5207 is a medium-sized tractor with variable axle track that was built from 1980 to 1984 and is popular on the second hand market. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5208 | 5208 is the 42nd octagonal number, representing the number of dots in a pattern of 42 nested octagons like this. | GuyBarry |
| 5209 | Butterick 5209 is a popular sewing pattern for a 1940s style swing dress. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5210 | The 5210 programme is aimed at healthy eating, especially in children. | Big Martin |
| 5211 | As part of the preparation for the Omagh bombing of August 1998, the perpetrators stole a maroon Vauxhall Cavalier and fitted it with the false Northern Ireland number plate MDZ 5211. | GuyBarry |
| 5212 | MR LONGARM 5212 is a 6- to 12-foot extension pole. | Big Martin |
| 5213 | 5213 is 55 written backwards. | GuyBarry |
| 5214 | The pharmaceutical drug Mecamylamine is also known as TC-5214. | Big Martin |
| 5215 | 54-year-old Raphael Ngugi is one of 5215 candidates sitting Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams in Kenya's Nakuru County this week. | GuyBarry |
| 5216 | The Oxford Academic paper Sex differences in the adult human brain used data from 5,216 UK Biobank participants. | Big Martin |
| 5217 | Definition number 5217 on Techopedia is of the World Wide Web, without which none of this would have happened. | GuyBarry |
| 5218 | Lego set 5218 is a Pneumatic Pack. They never had fun stuff like that when I used to play with Lego 50+ years ago. | Big Martin |
| 5219 | 5219 = 173 + 172 + 17. | GuyBarry |
| 5220 | The Grove GMK 5220 is a 220 tonne crane. | Big Martin |
| 5221 | 5221 (Fifty-Two To One) is a card trick by Wayne Fox, demonstrated in this video. | GuyBarry |
| 5222 | The Eastman Kodak 5222 is a black and white 35 mm cinematic film that analogue photography enthusiasts like to re-roll into photo camera cylinders for their pictures. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5223 | In October 2018 it was reported Iran's Ministry of Energy is planning to increase its thermal power capacity by up to 5223 megawatts. | GuyBarry |
| 5224 | The Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the United Nations code for cargo handling is 5224. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5225 | 5225 is not only palindromic, but looks the same when viewed upside-down in a traditional seven-segment display. | GuyBarry |
| 5226 | British Museum Satires 5226 is an anonymous print entitled The able doctor, or America swallowing the bitter draught dating to 1774. | Big Martin |
| 5227 | The Shrikhand Mahadev peak in the Himalayas, at an altitude of 5227 metres, is a place of pilgrimage for Hindus and considered to be one of the abodes of Lord Shiva. | GuyBarry |
| 5228 | Vessel BM 5228 is an inland motor freighter operating in Poland. | Big Martin |
| 5229 | This is a tour of room 5229 at the Breathless resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica. | GuyBarry |
| 5230 | Here is some YouTube footage on the top of Mount Iztaccihuatl in Mexico at an elevation of 5,230 metres. | Big Martin |
| 5231 | The Tanggula Pass (see #5072) carries the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, whose highest elevation reaches 5231 metres. | GuyBarry |
| 5232 | 5232 is the magazine of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. | Big Martin |
| 5233 | The KrAZ-5233 is a Ukrainian off road truck used by the Ukrainian armed forces, the Ukrainian national guard, and the Nigerian police. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5234 | How close can a perfect square and a perfect cube be, if they're not the same value? More precisely, can you find values of x and y such that the difference between x2 and y3 is less than the square root of y (but not zero)? The first pair is straightforward: 32 - 23 = 1, which is less than the square root of 2. But after that, you need to go all the way to 3786612 - 52343 = 17. This is the subject of an unsolved mathematical problem called Marshall Hall's conjecture. | GuyBarry |
| 5235 | Londonderry Township in Pennsylvania (population 5,235) is the site of the infamous Three Mile Island power station. | Big Martin |
| 5236 | Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations brought a £39 million economic boost to the city. That's according to research carried out by BOP Consulting, which surveyed 5236 people who attended the celebrations. | GuyBarry |
| 5237 | Playmobil set 5237 is a field palaeontologist on an off-road bike. As its official name is Dino Forscher (dinosaur researcher) I'm not quite sure why they've given him an ammonite among his kit... | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5238 | Marus Bridge Roundabout is at the junction of the A49 and the B5238 in Goose Green, to the south of Wigan. | GuyBarry |
| 5239 | A 2018 headline in the Military Times in the USA reads The 5,239 troops headed to the border is just the beginning (referring to the US-Mexico border). | Big Martin |
| 5240 | Point 5240 is a mountain peak on the Line of Control dividing the Indian- and Pakistani-administered portions of Kashmir in the Dras sector of Kargil district. | GuyBarry |
| 5241 | Kew Plant List No. 5241 is Ajuga decumbens, a herbaceous flowering plant native to China, Korea and Japan. | Big Martin |
| 5242 | There are 5242 ways to place eight non-attacking kings on an 8x8 chessboard, with one in each row and column. | GuyBarry |
| 5243 | According to Urban Dictionary 5243 is the best number combination of all the time because both the first and the second two digits add up to seven. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5244 | The North American Moth Photographers Group have provided this picture of the delightfully named Greater Sweetpotato Webworm Moth, or Herpetogramma fluctuosalis, Hodges number 5244. | GuyBarry |
| 5245 | The Zetor 5245 tractor was made in the then Czechoslovakia. | Big Martin |
| 5246 | Sible Hedingham in the Braintree district of Essex has an area of 5246 acres. | Ed. |
| 5247 | Raumnes is a local newspaper published in Årnes, Norway, with a circulation of 5247 in 2016. | GuyBarry |
| 5248 | FEMA Fire Management Assistance Declaration FM-5248 relates to the Utah Dollar Ridge fire of July 2018. | Big Martin |
| 5249 | The new MacBook Air starts at 5249 Malaysian ringgit. | GuyBarry |
| 5250 | The Technics SA-5250 is an FM/ AM stereo receiver that first hit the US market in 1975 and is a fairly typical piece of HiFi equipment of its time. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5251 | The Hoover Dam was built in five years, from 1931 to 1936, with 5251 people employed at peak construction. | GuyBarry |
| 5252 | Here is a colour chart for British Standard BS5252. | Big Martin |
| 5253 | 5253 is both a lucky number and a triangular number. The triangular numbers are the ones representing the number of dots in an equilateral triangle (in this case, one with 102 dots on a side). The lucky numbers are the ones generated by the sieving process described here, in some ways similar to the process used to generate the prime numbers. | GuyBarry |
| 5254 | RHS plant 5254 is Cytisus scoparius - common broom. | Big Martin |
| 5255 | The Strawbridge-Shepherd House, located at 5255 Shepherd Road in Springfield, Illinois, is regarded as one of the best-preserved Greek Revival houses in the Springfield area. | GuyBarry |
| 5256 | The LiAZ 5256 is the most common bus in Russia, with more than 24,650 being produced. | Big Martin |
| 5257 | The SS Englishman was a mercantile ship of 5257 tons built by Harland & Wolff in 1891 that was sunk by the German submarine U44 Wagenführ off Malin Head on 24th March 1916 with the loss of ten lives. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5258 | The B5258 runs along Warren Drive in north Blackpool. Although the road was built in the 1970s it did not receive this number until 2011. | GuyBarry |
| 5259 | The peak population of Japan's Hashima Island, occupied for undersea coal mining, was 5,259 in 1959. | Big Martin |
| 5260 | One of the few artefacts left intact by September's fire at Brazil's Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro was the Bendegó meteorite, which at 5260 kilograms is the largest meteorite ever found on Brazilian soil. | GuyBarry |
| 5261 | 5261 Eureka was discovered at Palomar Observatory in 1990, making it the first Mars Trojan asteroid to be observed. | Big Martin |
| 5262 | 5262 is a 'Fermat near miss'. Fermat's Last Theorem tells us that there are no positive integer solutions to x3 + y3 = z3, so this is as close as you can possibly get: 45283 + 37533 = 145697644729 = 52623 + 1. | GuyBarry |
| 5263 | In 2005, figures from the university admissions service Ucas showed there were 5263 people entering maths degree courses. | Ed. |
| 5264 | In November 2015, the Michael Hohl Motor Company in Nevada collected 2200 pounds of dog and cat food worth $5264 for the Feeding Pets of the Homeless charity. | GuyBarry |
| 5265 | Parlophone record R 5265 is The Beatles Ticket To Ride from 1965. | Big Martin |
| 5266 | In October 2018, Ayrshire residents were warned that a black panther is on the loose, and were told "if you've spotted a big cat in Scotland, phone the Scottish Sun on 0141 420 5266". | GuyBarry |
| 5267 | Sylvanian Families set 5267 is Starry Point Lighthouse. | Big Martin |
| 5268 | The A5268 is Chester's inner ring road - and, unlike some of the so-called ring roads listed previously, it actually forms a complete circuit of the city centre. | GuyBarry |
| 5269 | During an 1899 mission to measure the depth of the Mariana Trench the converted collier USS Nero arrived at a figure of 5,269 fathoms using weighted sounding equipment. More recent measurements using then unknown techniques have put the depth much greater. | Big Martin |
| 5270 | A healthy population of Scutiger boulengeri (Boulenger's lazy toad) has been found at an elevation of 5270 metres in one of the lakes in the Gurudongmar Lake complex in Sikkimese Himalaya. This is one of the highest elevations where amphibians have ever been recorded. | GuyBarry |
| 5271 | Sun Top Lookout in Washington state is at an elevation of 5,271 feet. Pretty spectacular views from the looks of it. | Big Martin |
| 5272 | As of 2015, there were 5272 ethnic Croats living in Norway. | GuyBarry |
| 5273 | On e-bay there is a vintage Italian horse basket planter marked 5273. | Big Martin |
| 5274 | 5274 x 7 = 36918. Taken together, 5274 and 36918 contain all the digits from 1 to 9 once and once only. One of only seven numbers of this type. | GuyBarry |
| 5275 | The Marshall 5275 Reverb 75 is a solid state cabinet guitar amplifier that was built from 1984 to 1991. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5276 | The Encore Boston Harbor construction project in Everett, Massachusetts, has employed 5276 union trade construction workers. | GuyBarry |
| 5277 | To extend their operative range several GWR locos of the 5205 class (see my entry under that number) were extended to a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement and redesignated as the 7200 class. Thus locomotive 5277 became 7202; which is currently under restoration at Didcot. | Big Martin |
| 5278 | Dracovenator is an extinct genus of dilophosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 201 to 199 million years ago during the early part of the Jurassic Period in what is now South Africa. Munyikwa and Raath (1999) reassigned paratype BP/1/5278, which was originally assigned to Syntarsus rhodesiensis, to Dracovenator, a juvenile specimen which consists of bones from the front of the skull, teeth, and jaw bones. | GuyBarry |
| 5279 | On a Wikipedia list of countries by length of waterways Laos, with a total of 5,279 kilometres, comes 23rd. | Big Martin |
| 5280 | The DSB 5280 is a powered Danish InterCity train carriage used for cross border services on the Vogelfluglinie. It is affectionally known to German trainspotters as the Rubbernose owing to the unusual design of its driver's cab that allows for several DMUs to be coupled together. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5281 | 5280 is also, as it happens, the number of feet in a mile... but I don't blame the owners of Mile High Views on Sugar Mountain in North Carolina, 5281 feet above sea level, for taking a small liberty with the exact value. | GuyBarry |
| 5282 | The Heath IG-5282 is an audio generator that outputs sine and square signals between 10 Hz and 100 KHz for testing low frequency equipment. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5283 | The US Veterans' Association Military Disability Made Easy code 5283 is for broken bones in the foot. | Big Martin |
| 5284 | 5284.com provides public transport information for Taipei. | GuyBarry |
| 5285 | Osmium boils at 5285 K. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5286 | McCall's Window Valances Pattern 5286 is available for just £14.58. | Big Martin |
| 5287 | The 1951 Brooklyn by-election in Wellington, New Zealand, was won by former Labour cabinet minister Arnold Nordmeyer with 5287 votes. | GuyBarry |
| 5288 | The archaeological find Naqada South Town UC5288 is an ancient Egyptian pre-dynastic falcon (Horus?) figurine. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5289 | 7480/5289 is a Pythagorean approximation to the square root of 2 (to within 0.003%). The "Pythagorean" bit arises from the fact that 5289, 7480 and 9161 are a "Pythagorean triple", i.e. a trio of integers that can be the sides of a right-angled triangle (52892 + 74802 = 91612). From this it's easy to deduce that 9161/5289 is an approximation to the square root of 3. | GuyBarry |
| 5290 | The Lancet volume 205, issue 5290, was published on 17th January, 1925, and contained an article about mortality from motor traffic. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5291 | The verb transition was submitted to the Collins Dictionary as new word suggestion 5291 in 2012, as in "his career is transitioning right now". | GuyBarry |
| 5292 | Canadian Government document IMM 5292 is a confirmation of permanent residence. | Big Martin |
| 5293 | By the end of September, the number of ATMs in the United Arab Emirates had increased to 5293. | GuyBarry |
| 5294 | Manuscript Harley 5294 at the British Library is a 12th century pharmacopeial compilation. | AlmondFacialBar |
| 5295 | Umbwe Gate on the way up Mount Kilimanjaro is at an altitude of 5295 ft or 1614 m. | Alfred E Neuman |
| 5296 | 5296 is Kobukuro's 7th album, released under Warner Music Japan. | GuyBarry |
| 5297 | 5297 private hire vehicles were licensed as of March 2020
in Wales. | Ed. |
| 5298 | In 2018 Matson, Inc. took delivery of the Daniel K. Inouye, the largest containership ever built in the United States, at Philly Shipyard in Philadephia. It embarked on its 5298-mile, 13-day maiden voyage to Oakland, California via the Panama Canal on Wednesday, November 7, and entered commercial service on November 22. | GuyBarry |
| 5299 | Viessmann 5299 is a German language book called Signalbuch and is about signals for model railway layouts. | Big Martin |
| 5300 | The A5300 is a southern extension of the M57 Liverpool Outer Ring. | GuyBarry |
