The Quite Incredible Number List: 6101-6200
| 6101 | 6101 is the postcode of Carlisle, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, originally known as Bickford. | GuyBarry |
| 6102 | US Presidential Executive Order 6102 was signed on April 5 1933 by Franklin D Roosevelt to prohibit the hoarding of gold. It remained in force until 1974, when Gerald Ford signed a bill legalising private gold ownership. | Big Martin |
| 6103 | In December 2022, the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee used Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code to require Donald Trump to release his tax returns. | GuyBarry |
| 6104 | Western Australian Museum item BAT6104 is a ship's timber from the wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia from 1629. | Big Martin |
| 6105 | The Voice of Han broadcasting station, based in Taiwan, broadcasts propaganda to mainland China under the callsign "Voice of Guanghua" on a number of medium wave and short wave frequencies including 6105 kHz. Its online broadcasting service and website are currently blocked in mainland China. | GuyBarry |
| 6106 | Section 6106 of the US Government code concerns rules around recording clocks. | Awitt |
| 6107 | 6107 is a Perrin number. The Perrin sequence starts 3, 0, 2, ... and then every succeeding term is the sum of the terms two and three places before it. (It's been called the "skiponacci sequence" because you skip the previous number and then add together the two numbers before that.) Here's the sequence up to that point: 3, 0, 2, 3, 2, 5, 5, 7, 10, 12, 17, 22, 29, 39, 51, 68, 90, 119, 158, 209, 277, 367, 486, 644, 853, 1130, 1497, 1983, 2627, 3480, 4610, 6107, ... | GuyBarry |
| 6108 | Capitol Records UK release SLCT 6108 is the soundtrack of the movie The King And I. | Big Martin |
| 6109 | SOS Phone 6109A is the very first one on the M11 northbound near Woodford in North London. | tetsabb |
| 6110 | The Nokia 6110 mobile phone was released in 1998. | Big Martin |
| 6111 | The British Mountaineering Council can be contacted on 0161 445 6111. | GuyBarry |
| 6112 | The Federated States of Micronesia have 6,112 kilometres of coastline. | Big Martin |
| 6113 | The bridge over the River Ryburn on the B6113 (Elland Road) in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, was once part of the Elland Turnpike. | GuyBarry |
| 6114 | This film is of recovery operations following a railway accident near Leighton Buzzard in 1931. The locomotive involved was LMS Royal Scot class 6114 Coldstream Guardsman. | Big Martin |
| 6115 | In July 2019 Spain's Maria Vicente won the heptathlon at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden, with a Spanish record of 6115 points. | GuyBarry |
| 6116 | At the time of the battle of Trafalgar a nautical mile was 6,116 feet. | Big Martin |
| 6117 | The Mariner 4 spacecraft was launched in November 1964 and flew past Mars at a distance of 6117 miles on July 15th 1965. | GuyBarry |
| 6118 | The Current has a clip of Jillian Rae playing her Gretsch 6118 guitar. | Big Martin |
| 6119 | In fonts where the digit 1 is written with a single vertical stroke, 6119 is a strobogrammatic number - the same when rotated through 180 degrees. | GuyBarry |
| 6120 | Here is YouTube footage of a 6,120 French Fry eating challenge. | Big Martin |
| 6121 | 6121 people were convicted of carrying a blade in 2007, of whom 1060 were sentenced to prison. Only seven were given more than 18 months. | GuyBarry |
| 6122 | According to Standard Media Kenya has 6,122 PhD holders employed in its universities. | Big Martin |
| 6123 | The total length of the Austrian rail network is 6123 km. | GuyBarry |
| 6124 | North Vietnamese MiG 21 fighter aircraft 6124 is on display at the Hue Museum. | Big Martin |
| 6125 | 6125 = 53 x 72. | GuyBarry |
| 6126 | BRMX 6126 is a rail diesel car built by the Budd Company in Philadelphia in 1955 and now at the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts. | Big Martin |
| 6127 | One of the longest road numbers ever used in Great Britain was formerly allocated to the Central Motorway East (now Newcastle Central Motorway) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It opened in 1975 as the A1(M), but was renumbered as the A6127(M) in 1977 when the A1 was re-routed through the Tyne Tunnel to the east of the city. Then in the early 1990s, when the A1 was re-routed again along the western bypass, the motorway was renumbered again as the A167(M). Part of it holds the distinction of being Britain's only double-decker motorway, with one carriageway running above the other. | GuyBarry |
| 6128 | Capitol Records 6128 is a 45 rpm single release of Judy Garland singing Over The Rainbow. | Big Martin |
| 6129 | ORBIS, the Stanford geospatial network model of the Roman world, allows you to check how long it would take you to travel from location to location during Roman times. If you were to select the cheapest route from Londinium to Ierusalem, it would take you 98.4 days to complete a 6129-kilometre journey. | GuyBarry |
| 6130 | Here is a JNCC map of 6130 Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae. | Big Martin |
| 6131 | 6131 Records is an independent label based in Richmond, Virginia. | GuyBarry |
| 6132 | DSMZ - the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures - can offer you DSM 6132 (Guyparkeria halophila) isolated from Lake O'Grady in Western Australia at 125 Euros for an actively growing culture. | Big Martin |
| 6133 | Following the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon, there were a total of 6133 six star finishers in the Abbott World Marathon Majors. | GuyBarry |
| 6134 | The call sign for Martin Sheen is WDJ6134 - that's the sailing vessel not the actor. | Big Martin |
| 6135 | Minor planet (6135) Billowen is named not for the late Last of the Summer Wine actor (sadly), but in honour of William Mann Owen Jr, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who developed the initial orbits of the small satellites of Uranus and Neptune discovered during the Voyager space mission. | GuyBarry |
| 6136 | According to the Gov.uk website, an employee has to be paid by PAYE if they earn £6,136 or more a year. | Big Martin |
| 6137 | The original Broadway production of A Chorus Line ran for 6137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997. | GuyBarry |
| 6138 | Historic England listed "building" 1278218 is a boundary stone 200 metres from the junction of the A58 and B6138. | Big Martin |
| 6139 | William Pogue's Seiko 6139 watch, flown on board the Skylab 4 mission in 1973-4, was the first automatic chronograph to be worn in space. Although the watch wasn't flight-approved by NASA, he was allowed to bring it on the flight. | GuyBarry |
| 6140 | With a prominence of 6,140 metres, Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) is third only to Everest and Aconcagua. | Big Martin |
| 6141 | The 1841 Republic of Texas presidential election was won by Sam Houston with 7915 votes. Edward Burleson was elected vice-president with 6141 votes, but (according to Wikipedia) the two men despised one another. | GuyBarry |
| 6142 | Shadow 6142 by Brian Bateman has no likes on Vimeo - can't say I'm surprised! | Big Martin |
| 6143 | 6143 is the smallest prime with exactly 12 1's when written in binary (1011111111111). | GuyBarry |
| 6144 | Between 1987 and 2006, the A6144(M) in the Trafford district of Greater Manchester held the dubious distinction of being the country's only fully single-carriageway motorway. It is now the plain A6144. | GuyBarry |
| 6145 | Item 6145 in The Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland is the Clouded Buff (Diacrisia sannio) - a day flying moth. | Big Martin |
| 6146 | US project developers announced new wind farms with a total capacity of 6146 megawatts in the first quarter of 2019. | GuyBarry |
| 6147 | UK registration TR6147 is borne by a Bristol LH bus chassis which has been fitted with a charabanc and operated by English Riviera Sightseeing Tours. | Big Martin |
| 6148 | 57% of the 6148 GP trainers who responded to the General Medical Council's 2019 national training survey said that they work beyond their rostered or basic working hours on a daily basis. | GuyBarry |
| 6149 | 6,149 chikungunya virus cases have been reported in the Congo in 2019. | Big Martin |
| 6150 | Not all suburbs of Perth, Western Australia are named after places in Britain. 6150 is the postcode for Murdoch, home to Murdoch University, both of which were named after Sir Walter Murdoch, prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. His great-nephew Rupert is also famous, but sadly for neither. | GuyBarry |
| 6151 | The phone number of the famous Cumberland Arms pub/music venue in Byker, Newcastle is 0191 265 6151. | Big Martin |
| 6152 | Paul Martin came third for UKIP in the Salisbury constituency in the 2015 election, with 6152 votes. | Ed. |
| 6153 | The easyJet flight EZY6153 flies between Bristol and Geneva. | Big Martin |
| 6154 | Research conducted by the RMT union in 2017 found that each year rail passengers wasted the equivalent of 6154 years because of train operating company and infrastructure failures. | GuyBarry |
| 6155 | Issue 6155 of The Lancet from 1941 contained Further observations on penicillin and Care for Home Guard casualties amongst its articles. | Big Martin |
| 6156 | The boiling point of lutetium is 6156 degrees Fahrenheit. | GuyBarry |
| 6157 | As of 13 February 2022, there were 6157 people waiting for an organ transplant in the UK. | Ed. |
| 6158 | The late Surrey cricketer Eddie Watts scored a total of 6158 runs in his first-class career. | GuyBarry |
| 6159 | CCJ International Trade catalogue item 6159 is a "Seahorse Leather Coin Purse". Due to the word order, I did briefly wonder how you make leather from seahorses! | Big Martin |
| 6160 | Amongst the broadcasters currently operating on 6160 kHz short wave are AM Shortwave Gold Radio, China Radio International, and Pyongyang BS. | Ed. |
| 6161 | Over Christmas 2017 Nantwich Rotary raised £6,161 with their "Sleigh with Santa". | Big Martin |
| 6162 | 6162 is the concatenation of two consecutive integers, 61 and 62; it's also the product of two consecutive integers, 78 x 79 (and thus a pronic number). No other four-digit number has both these properties. | GuyBarry |
| 6163 | According to the Cyclopaedia of 1819, a Montpellier pound weight equated to 6,163 English grains. | Big Martin |
| 6164 | Success is yet another suburb of Perth in Western Australia. Its name comes from Captain James Stirling's ship HMS Success, and if you want to send mail there you'll need postcode 6164. | GuyBarry |
| 6165 | Sydney Tramway Museum document STM6165 is a provisional tram driver authorisation record card. | Big Martin |
| 6166 | The delightfully named ANNA (Association of National Numbering Agencies) sounds as though it might be responsible for all the reference numbers in the world. Actually it operates within the field of stocks, bonds and investment funds, where a unique identification code is assigned to each new security as it is issued. It was responsible for the global adoption of a common standard for identifying securities, the ISIN (International Securities Identification Number) according to ISO Standard 6166. | GuyBarry |
| 6167 | Canadian National steam locomotive 6167 was built in 1940 and is now at the Guelph Museums in Ontario. | Big Martin |
| 6168 | Telescope Peak, the highest point within Death Valley National Park in California, has a prominence of 6168 feet. | GuyBarry |
| 6169 | UK Export Health Certificate 6169 is required for exporting pig and poultry meat to Turkey. | Big Martin |
| 6170 | On 1 August, the British Medical Association revealed that out of 6170 GPs and hospital members surveyed, 31 per cent of respondents have already reduced their work commitments due to pension tax charges. | GuyBarry |
| 6171 | Ex-US Air Force F-86D Sabre fighter aircraft 6171 was built in 1953 and is now at the North East Aircraft Museum in Sunderland. | Big Martin |
| 6172 | This 1964 portrait of Paul McCartney ('Mike's Brother') by Sam Walsh is number NPG 6172 in the National Portrait Gallery. | GuyBarry |
| 6173 | Example (No. 6173) of the "Rapid Computer", made in the late C19th in Michigan, is in the Science Museum's collection. | Big Martin |
| 6174 | 6174 is perhaps one of the most remarkable four-digit numbers in respect of its mathematical properties. It's sometimes known as "Kaprekar's constant" after the Indian mathematician D.R. Kaprekar.
| 1. Take any four-digit number that uses at least two different digits. |
| 2. Arrange the digits in descending and then in ascending order to get two four-digit numbers (including leading zeros if necessary). |
| 3. Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number. |
| 4. Go back to step 2 and repeat. |
The above process will always reach 6174 in at most seven iterations, and then stays there permanently. | GuyBarry |
| 6175 | According to a 2018 article in the Lancashire Post, there have been huge rises in robberies, sex offences and violent crimes in Lancashire. The article mentions that 6,175 crimes were committed in Pendle. | Strawberry |
| 6176 | Crater Lake in Oregon has an elevation of 6,176 feet and, with a depth of 1,932 feet, is also the deepest in the USA. | Big Martin |
| 6177 | This is a tale of two A6177s. The first is the Bradford Outer Ring Road, which dates to the 1970s. The second was formerly a route between Blackburn and Haslingden, both in Lancashire, which was upgraded from a B-road when the M65 was opened in 1997. It seems that no one noticed the duplicated road number for some years, but in 2005 most of the road went back to its original number of B6232, and the section west of the M65 became the A6077. Order has thus been restored! | GuyBarry |
| 6178 | At the time of it being merged into SNCF in 1938, the Paris - Lyon - Mediterranee railway operated 6,178 miles of track. | Big Martin |
| 6179 | For the year 2018, the average weekly circulation of the Trowbridge-based Wiltshire Times was 6179. | GuyBarry |
| 6180 | "6180 the moon" is a minimalistic puzzle platforming video game released in 2014. | Big Martin |
| 6181 | 6181 is the 21st octahedral number - the number of close-packed spheres forming an octahedron as in the diagram here, but with 21 spheres along each edge. | GuyBarry |
| 6182 | La Vengeance Raguidel is a C13th poem in Old French in 6,182 octosyllabic verses. | Big Martin |
| 6183 | Moraine Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada is situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks at an elevation of approximately 6183 feet. | GuyBarry |
| 6184 | During WW2, V1 Flying Bombs killed 6,184 people in the London area. | Big Martin |
| 6185 | Radio Educación is a cultural radio station based in Mexico City, which also operates a shortwave station on 6185 kHz. | GuyBarry |
| 6186 | Muscat is 1,354 miles from Hyderabad, but driving between the two would be 6,186 miles. | Big Martin |
| 6187 | The A6187 proceeds for 10.8 miles along the Hope Valley in the Peak District, south-west of Sheffield, before coming to an abrupt end at the village of Castleton, beyond which there are no classified roads. That's because it used to be part of the A625, a route between Sheffield and Manchester avoiding the notorious Snake Pass. However, the section of the A625 at Mam Tor was built on loose shale which had been sliding for centuries, and in 1979 it was finally abandoned. After other sections were rerouted or declassified, a new A-road number was needed for the former middle section of the A625 between Fox House and Castleton, and thus the A6187 was born. | GuyBarry |
| 6188 | The Dragons of Ara (NGC6188) are part of an emission nebula. | Big Martin |
| 6189 | Barnet Memory Service is a specialist service for people who are experiencing difficulties with their memory, which can be contacted on 020 8702 6188, or 020 8702 6189, or 020 8702 6199. But how will they remember all those different numbers? | GuyBarry |
| 6190 | In 2016 Rob Woodall reached the final trig pillar in his attempt to reach all 6,190 of them known and still existing in Britain. | Big Martin |
| 6191 | The most popular year for the name Bernice in the United States was 1921, when 6191 baby girls were given the name. | GuyBarry |
| 6192 | The Bundesmarine patrol boat Munin (pennant number P6192) was one of 2 vessels ordered from Norway in 1960. They were built to the design of the so-called Nasty-class and served for only until 1964, when they were transferred to Turkey. | Big Martin |
| 6193 | According to a Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Conservatives in 2019, the average waiting time for a disabled person on a housing waiting list in Edinburgh is 6193 days - the longest in Scotland. That contrasts with West Dunbartonshire, where the average wait is just four days. | GuyBarry |
| 6194 | Denali (Mount McKinley) is 6,194 metres high according to this website. It is also 6,193, 6,192, 6,191 and, according to the latest measuring techniques, 6,190 metres.
| Big Martin |
| 6195 | James van Buskirk has found 6195 integers between 0 and 3000000000 which are neither a cube nor the sum of a nonnegative cube and a prime. Here they are; the last is 78526384, which suggests there may be no more. | GuyBarry |
| 6196 | There are 6,196 five-letter Wordle words without N, C, D or F. | Ed. |
| 6197 | 6197 men and 2194 women competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. | GuyBarry |
| 6198 | The Queulat Hanging Glacier in Chile is 6,198 feet high. | Big Martin |
| 6199 | This Cartier Cougar yellow gold watch is currently on sale for £6199. | GuyBarry |
| 6200 | The Kintetsu 6200 series is a class of electric multiple unit train operated on the Minami Osaka Line in Japan since 1974. | Big Martin |
