The Quite Incredible Number List: 801-900
| 801 | The band 801 were put together as a temporary project in 1976 after the break up of Roxy Music. The name is taken from the refrain of a song written by band member Brian Eno. | Big Martin |
| 802 | There are 802 isomers of tridecane, the hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C13H28. Nymphs of the southern green stink bug produce n-tridecane as a dispersion/aggregation pheromone which possibly serves also as a defence against predators. | GuyBarry |
| 803 | The Elliott 803 is a small, medium speed digital computer which was manufactured by the British company Elliott Brothers in the 1960s. About 250 were built and most British universities and colleges bought one. | bemahan |
| 804 | Studio 804, based at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, is a not-for-profit corporation committed to the continued research and development of sustainable, affordable, and inventive building solutions. | GuyBarry |
| 805 | Area code 805 is a California telephone area code that was split from area code 213 in 1957. | Awitt |
| 806 | In AD 806, vikings massacred 86 monks in Martyrs' Bay on the island of Iona. | GuyBarry |
| 807 | The 807 is a beam tetrode vacuum tube, widely used in audio- and radio-frequency power amplifier applications. | Strawberry |
| 808 | When written as a numeral, 808 has both horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry. In fonts where the digit "1" is asymmetric, it is one of only two three-digit numbers to have this property (the other being 888). | GuyBarry |
| 809 | Originally formed in 1941, 809 Naval Air Squadron has been resurrected as the first Royal Navy formation to fly the new Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. | nimravus, updated |
| 810 | 810 kHz is the medium-wave frequency used by BBC Radio Scotland. | GuyBarry |
| 811 | The 811 series is an AC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on local services by Kyusha Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Japan since 1989. | Strawberry |
| 812 | A seasonal bus service, numbered 812 and known as the "Bronte Scenic Tour", returned to the Worth Valley in West Yorkshire in 2013, running on Sundays and bank holidays between Haworth and Scar Top Pine. It no longer appears to be in service. | GuyBarry |
| 813 | 813 is a 1920 film directed by Charles Christie and Scott Sidney, written by Scott Darling from the story by Maurice Leblanc, produced by Al Christie, released by the Christie Film Company and the Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation and starring Wedgewood Newell as jewel thief Arsene Lupin with a supporting cast featuring Ralph Lewis, Wallace Beery and Lara LaPlante. | Strawberry |
| 814 | If a three-digit number is divisible by 37, it remains divisible by 37 when you rotate its digits. One example is 814 = 22 x 37, which gives 148 = 4 x 37 and 481 = 13 x 37. | GuyBarry |
| 815 | 815 is the number for the Plantronics Voyager Bluetooth headset. | Awitt |
| 816 | From The Urban Dictionary: "Pronounced 'eight-sixteen' and alternatively written as 8:16, this number is the sound of one hand clapping, and if a tree falls in the forest with no one there to hear it, 816 reverberates through the lonely woods. It is Chuck Norris' favourite number. This is a number that laughs in your face. Just look at it and you will understand." | GuyBarry |
| 817 | The 817 Squadron was a Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron. It was originally formed as part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for service during World War II. | Awitt |
| 818 | 818 is the area code for the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, and is more generally used to describe the area and the people who live there. A film was planned about the area in 2013 but didn't get enough financial backing. | GuyBarry |
| 819 | Gallery 819 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows paintings from the mid to late career of Monet. | Big Martin |
| 820 | The Xerox 820 was an 8-bit desktop computer first produced in 1981. | GuyBarry |
| 821 | 821 Fanny is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. | Strawberry |
| 822 | The Nokia Lumia 822 was released in November 2012. | Awitt |
| 823 | The "money bags" hoax email, which has been circulating since 2010, usually takes the form of a claim that "this year, July [or some other month] has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens only once every 823 years". In fact it happens about once every seven years on average, but it seems that people are still taken in by it. | GuyBarry |
| 824 | LPD -824 is a derivative of ergine and can have mild l.s.d. like effects. | Big Martin |
| 825 | United Nations Security Council resolution 825, adopted on 11 May 1993, called on North Korea to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. | GuyBarry |
| 826 | 826 National is a network of tutoring and writing centres in the USA, spread out over eight states. | Awitt |
| 827 | The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. | GuyBarry |
| 828 | 828 is a film format for still photography. Kodak introduced it in 1935, only a year after 135 film. 828 film was introduced with the Kodak Bantam, a consumer-level camera. | Strawberry |
| 829 | The 829 Maduro is a brand of cigar from the Dominican Republic. | GuyBarry |
| 830 | 830 is a class of diesel locomotives, built by AE Goodwin, Auburn for the South Australian Railways between 1959 and 1966. | Awitt |
| 831 | 831 is internet slang for "I love you" (8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning). | GuyBarry |
| 832 | Sufix 832 Advanced Superline is the strongest and most durable small diameter braid on the market according to its manufacturer. | Big Martin |
| 833 | On 19th April 1968 Avro Shackleton WB833 of the Royal Air Force was returning from ASW exercises over the Irish Sea when, climbing through thick sea mist, it struck the rising ground below Garvalt Cottage (east of the Mull of Kintyre) with the loss of all 11 of her crew. WB833 had been the prototype Shackleton MRmk2, having been converted from MRmk1 standard whilst on the production line at Avro's Woodford factory in 1952. | PDR |
| 834 | The maximum number of pieces attainable by making 17 planar cuts through a cube (or cake) is 834. | GuyBarry |
| 835 | USS LST 835 an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. | Awitt |
| 836 | Michael Cooke, a security man guarding the main stage at the Download Festival 2011 held at Donington Park, became a minor internet celebrity through his unusual antics. He was known as 836 owing to the number "0836" on his vest. | GuyBarry |
| 837 | The Artisan 837 is an Epson printer. | Awitt |
| 838 | According to a road atlas of 2008, the shortest route from Land's End to John O'Groats using classified roads is 838 miles. | GuyBarry |
| 839 | As King of Wessex, after the decline of Mercian power under Offa, Egbert inherited the mantle of 'bretwalda' - an Anglo-Saxon term meaning a ruler with overall superiority to other rulers He came to power in 802 and died in 839, but little else is known about his reign. | bemahan |
| 840 | House of Commons Early Day Motion 840, tabled in December 2013, states "That this House is concerned that the Government's funding cuts to museums and galleries has led to continued privatisation of services; notes that this has resulted in reductions in staff and the increased use of zero-hours contracts and volunteer staff; believes that the cuts and casualisation create a diminished experience for visitors; and calls on the Government to increase funding for arts and culture to ensure that the UK's cultural heritage is safeguarded for future generations." | Strawberry |
| 841 | 841 is a perfect square (= 292), and also the sum of two consecutive perfect squares (= 202 + 212). This is the smallest example of such a number after 25. | GuyBarry |
| 842 | State route 842 is a 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) state highway in Kentucky. | Awitt |
| 843 | According to tradition, the first King of Scots was Kenneth MacAlpin, who founded the state in AD 843. | GuyBarry |
| 844 | Union Pacific 844 is a 4-8-4 steam locomotive that has never been retired and is now used for special excursions and the like. | Big Martin |
| 845 | Spitfire DP845 was the first prototype spitfire fitted with the larger Rolls Royce Griffon engine in place of the standard Merlin. Initially called a MkIV (and later the MkXX) it was used to develop the modifications required to accomodate the greater torque and cooling requirements of the bigger engine (different radiatioes and larger tailplane & fin). It first flew on 27th November 1941, and in July 1942 was used as a "reference aircraft" in a race between a Hawker Typhoon and a captured Focke Wulf 190A at A&AEE Farnborough. The Spitfire surprised everyone when, rather than showing how much faster the others were it actually won the race by a significant margin. | PDR |
| 846 | The first of J.S. Bach's "48 Preludes and Fugues" has the catalogue number BWV 846. | GuyBarry |
| 847 | Gene 847 encodes catalase, a key antioxidant enzyme in the bodies defense against oxidative stress. | Awitt |
| 848 | 848 Group is a business IT services and infrastructure company based in Stafford. | GuyBarry |
| 849 | Gliese 849 is a red dwarf star 29 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius. In 2006 a Jupter-like planet was discovered orbiting it. | Big Martin |
| 850 | In December 2013, 850 viewers complained that the BBC had devoted too much airtime to the death of Nelson Mandela and not enough to the storms that lashed Britain's eastern coast. | GuyBarry |
| 851 | 851 is the common band width for police radios, meaning to be arrested. 'Seen in S01E01 of HBO series 'The Wire'. "He got 851 this morning.' | Awitt |
| 852 | 852 is the middle vertical column on a computer or calculator's numeric keypad. (On a mobile phone or ATM, it's the other way up.) | GuyBarry |
| 853 | "853-5937", written by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, was the fourth UK single and the second US single released from Squeeze's seventh album, Babylon and On. Whilst the song did not chart in the UK, it managed to reach number 32 on the US Hot 100 charts. | Strawberry |
| 854 | 854 has the property that it and its square together use the digits 1-9 once each: 8542 = 729316. | GuyBarry |
| 855 | 855 is the country code for Cambodia. | Awitt |
| 856 | 856 is the 19th centred pentagonal number, i.e. the number of dots in a pentagon with one dot in the centre and 18 surrounding layers. | GuyBarry |
| 857 | 857 is a gene where the main component is a scaffolding protein, of plasma membranes found in most cell types. | Awitt |
| 858 | Korean Air Flight 858 was a flight from Baghdad to Seoul. In 1987 two bombers planted a bomb on the plane and then disembarked, meaning the plane exploded over the Andaman Sea. The bombing was later connected to Kim Jong-Il. | GuyBarry |
| 859 | Corian 859 large single sinks are popular for kitchen installations. | Big Martin |
| 860 | In June 2013, the company behind photo-sharing app Snapchat was estimated to be worth US$860 million, despite being less than two years old and having precisely zero revenue. | GuyBarry |
| 861 | The Cisco 861 Integrated Services Router is a discontinued fixed-configuration router that provides business solutions for secure voice and data communications. Its last day of sale was February 6 2013. | Awitt |
| 862 | A crackdown by Gwent police on metal thefts during 2011-12 resulted in 862 arrests. | GuyBarry |
| 863 | The 863 Program was a program funded and administered by the government of the People's Republic of China intended to stimulate the development of advanced technologies in a wide range of fields for the purpose of rendering China independent of financial obligations for foreign technologies. | Ed. |
| 864 | 864 is six gross, or six dozen dozen. | Ed. |
| 865 | The former 0865 dialling code for Oxford (now 01865) was an exception to the usual pattern. Normally the codes consisted of the STD prefix 0, then the digits corresponding to the first two letters of the exchange name, plus a digit relating to the size of the exchange: e.g. Cambridge was 0223 (0CA3). But in Oxford the exchange name was "Otmoor", and the first three letters were used (OTM5). | GuyBarry |
| 866 | UNESCO world heritage site 866bis refers to 2 prehistoric rock art sites in Spain and Portugal on tributaries of the River Douro. | Big Martin |
| 867 | "867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Tommy Tutone that was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2, on the Columbia Records label. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982. The song caused a fad of people dialling "867-5309" and asking for "Jenny". | Strawberry |
| 868 | 868-HACK is a game by Michael Brough for the iPhone simulating the actions of a computer hacker. | GuyBarry |
| 869 | 869 is the area code for St Kitts and Nevis in the North American Numbering Plan. | Awitt |
| 870 | 870 is the "magic constant" of a 12x12 normal magic square - i.e. the numbers in each row, column and main diagonal add up to 870. | GuyBarry |
| 871 | The 1st Battle of Reading, between the West Saxons and Danes, took place in 871 AD. | Big Martin |
| 872 | 872 songs were submitted to be the Danish entry in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. | GuyBarry |
| 873 | 873 kHz is the frequency of 2GB, an AM Sydney radio station. | Awitt |
| 874 | 874 = 0! + 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! + 5! + 6! . (Note that 0! = 1 by definition.) | GuyBarry |
| 875 | The Titan 875 is the most powerful truckmount carpet cleaner available. | Big Martin |
| 876 | 876 is the local area code for Jamaica, a country that participates in the North American Numbering Plan. Some people in the USA have been warned against calls from 876 numbers as it's the source of a number of scams, including the so-called "one-ring scam" where someone calls the victim via a robodialer or similar means, sometimes at odd hours of the night, then hangs up when the phone is answered with the hope that they will be curious enough to call the number back. When the victim does this, an automatic $19.95 international call fee is charged to their account, as well as $9.00/min thereafter. | GuyBarry |
| 877 | The telephone number (877) TAME-HER is shown on the "Seduce and Destroy" infomercials within the 1999 film Magnolia. Dialling this number used to give a recording of Tom Cruise giving the Seduce and Destroy pitch. | Strawberry |
| 878 | 878 is the number of 3x3 sliding puzzle positions that require exactly 29 moves to solve starting with the hole on a side. | GuyBarry |
| 879 | 879 Ricarda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on July 22, 1917. | Strawberry |
| 880 | Not counting reflections and rotations, there are 880 distinct 4x4 magic squares. | GuyBarry |
| 881 | 881 is a 2007 Singaporean musical-comedy-drama film written and directed by Royston Tan, based on the Singapore Getai scene. It is only the second Singaporean film that has been released in Japan. | Strawberry |
| 882 | If you multiply 882 by its reverse, you get a perfect square: 882 x 288 = 254016 = 5042. (Trivially true for all palindromic numbers of course.) | GuyBarry |
| 883 | 883 (pronounced otto otto tre) were an Italian pop rock/rap duo active from 1989 to 2003. They were named after the 883cc Harley-Davidson Sportster. | Strawberry |
| 884 | Gliese 884 is an orange dwarf star in the constellation of Aquarius and is currently the 111th closest star to the Sun. | GuyBarry |
| 885 | The 885 series is an AC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated on limited express services by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Japan. The type is part of Hitachi's A-train family of multiple units. | Strawberry |
| 886 | On April 23rd 2013, it was reported that the number of cases in the measles epidemic had risen to 886, an increase of 78 in five days. | GuyBarry |
| 887 | In 1896, Yorkshire hit up a still-standing County Championship cricket record total of 887 runs against Warwickshire. | Strawberry |
| 888 | Before analogue television was switched off, 888 was the page number for teletext subtitles. | GuyBarry |
| 889 | In the Dewey Decimal System for classifying books, 889 is the code for literature in medieval and modern Greek. | Strawberry |
| 890 | In the Wii Sports "Power Throws" bowling game, 890 is a perfect score. | GuyBarry |
| 891 | The 891st Helicopter Reconnaissance and Liaison Squadron were an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in 1952 at Skopje airfield as Liaison Squadron of 3rd Military district. | Strawberry |
| 892 | House of Commons Early Day Motion 892 for the 2013-14 session states: "That this House welcomes the ending of the beer duty escalator and the impact of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic beer duty cut in the 2013 Budget, the first such cut since 1959, in supporting the growth of Britain's breweries and underpinning confidence in the UK's pubs; and urges the Government to sustain this momentum by considering the case for a further freeze in beer duty in the 2014 Budget which would secure over 2,000 jobs in pubs up and down the land and help reduce the cost of living for hard-working men and women". | GuyBarry |
| 893 | 893 Leopoldina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. | Strawberry |
| 894 | Interstate 894 is a 9.3-mile auxiliary Interstate Highway in Milwaukee County in the US state of Wisconsin, serving as a bypass of downtown Milwaukee. | GuyBarry |
| 895 | The 895th Helicopter Reconnaissance and Liaison Squadron were an aviation Squadron were an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in 1981 at Divulje air base 895th Helicopter Flight. | Strawberry |
| 896 | The binary representation of 896 consists of a string of ones followed by a string of zeroes: 1110000000. | GuyBarry |
| 897 | 897 = (7 x 27) + 1, making it a Cullen number (a number of the form n·2n + 1). | Ed. |
| 898 | The M898 has been described as "one of the shortest, narrowest and [most] generally pathetic motorways that there is". It's a mile long, leading from the M8 west of Glasgow to the Erskine Bridge across the Clyde. | GuyBarry |
| 899 | The Bennelli TNT 899 Sport is an Italian motorcycle. | Strawberry |
| 900 | The 900 is a 2½-revolution (900-degree) aerial spin performed on a skateboard ramp (see linked video). | GuyBarry |
