Let's Count To A Million

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

Let's Count To A Million

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

252 - Long-Wave Radio Atlantic 252 was my favourite radio station as a kid.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

253 - Another phone extension I had at my previous job!

braxious · 500 Club Member

254 - only 999764 left

neuman · A List Star

255 In computing
255 is a special number in some tasks having to do with computing. This is the maximum value representable by an eight-digit binary number, and therefore the maximum representable by an unsigned 8-bit byte (the most common size of byte, also called octet), the smallest common variable size used in high level programming languages (bit being smaller, but rarely used for value storage). The range is 0 to 255, which is 256 total values.

255 = 28 1 = FF16 = 111111112.
For example, 255 is the maximum value

that can be assigned to elements in the 24-bit RGB color model, since each color channel is allotted eight bits.
of any dotted quad in an IP address.
of the Alpha blending scale in Delphi (255 being 100% visible and 0 being fully transparent)
This number occurs especially frequently in video games when a small number is needed, such as in the original The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System where the maximum number of Rupees (the currency of the game) is 255. In the Madden NFL series, the maximum points you can score is 255. If more points are scored, the game score remains at 255 regardless.

The usage of 8 bits for storage in older videogames has had the consequence of it appearing as a hard limit in many videogames. It was often used for numbers where casual gameplay would not cause anyone to exceed the number. However in most situations it is reachable given enough time. This can cause many other peculiarities similar to the above listed to appear when the number wraps back to 0.

This number could be interpreted by a computer as -1 if a programmer is not careful about which 8-bit values are signed and unsigned, and the two's complement representation of -1 in a signed byte is equal to that of 255 in an unsigned byte.

Yay computers

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

256 - The number of characters in the new Braille 8-dot system.
The number of different values in one byte, which makes it the typical number of different values in each color channel of a digital color image.
The number of columns in a standard Microsoft Excel worksheet.
The Split-Screen Level in Pacman
The number of counties in Texas.
The number of regular season football games in the NFL.

Also, in the year 256 the Goths invade Asia Minor AND appeared at the walls of Thessalonica. Those damn Goths causing yet more trouble!

-- Edited by DoctorOfDesire at 11:38, 2007-11-28

-- Edited by DoctorOfDesire at 11:38, 2007-11-28

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

257-another phone extension MiB had at his previous job!

neuman · A List Star

258 - It seems it was a busy year
Roman Empire
The Goths ravage Asia Minor and Trabzon.
Gaul, Britain and Spain break off from the Roman Empire to form the Gallic Empire.
The amount of silver in Roman currency falls below 10%.
A second Imperial edict prohibits Christianity in the Roman Empire. This edict divides Christians into four categories: priests, who are to be put to death; senators and equestrians, who are to be stripped of their positions and their property confiscated; nuns, who are to be exiled, and imperial civil servants, who are condemned to forced labour.

Asia
Sun Xiu succeeds Sun Liang as ruler of the Chinese kingdom of Wu

Religion
Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, is martyred (decapitation).
Pope Sixtus II is martyred.

Education
Nanjing University is founded in Nanjing, China.

NymVette · Movie Producer

259

Roman Empire

Valerian, captured by King Shapur I of Persia, dies in captivity.
Postumus revolts against Gallienus in Gaul. The western provinces of Britain and Spain join his independent realmwhich is called in modern times the Gallic Empire.
The Roman fort of Wiesbaden (Germany) is captured by the Alamanni (possibly 260).
The Franks, who invaded the Roman Empire near Cologne in 257, reach Tarraco in Hispania.

Religion

Pope Dionysius is elected as the 25th pope.

Births

Emperor Hui of Jin
Tao Kan, general of Jin Dynasty
Empress Yang Zhi, empress of Jin Dynasty

neuman · A List Star

260 is the magic constant of the n×n normal magic square and n-Queens Problem for n = 8, the size of an actual chess board.

260 is also the magic constant of the Franklin magic square devised by Benjamin Franklin.

52 61 04 13 20 29 36 45
14 03 62 51 46 35 30 19
53 60 05 12 21 28 37 44
11 06 59 54 43 38 27 22
55 58 07 10 23 26 39 42
09 08 57 56 41 40 25 24
50 63 02 15 18 31 34 47
16 01 64 49 48 33 32 17

The minor diagonal gives 260, and in addition a number of combinations of two half diagonals of four numbers from a corner to the center give 260.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

261

ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT 261

On January 31, 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board launched a Go Team to Oxnard, California, to begin its investigation of the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (N963AS) was in route from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to Seattle, Washington with a stop planned for San Francisco, California. All 83 passengers and five crewmembers aboard the MD-80 died when the aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
The Navy mapped the accident area with underwater side scanning sonar and video, enabling wreckage recovery.

The CVR and FDR were recovered by the Navy from about 700 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The FDR was recovered February 3; it contains 48 parameters of information, including stabilizer trim position and elevator position. The 25-hour magnetic tape captures the entire 2 hours and 43 minutes of the accident flight, as well as information from previous flights.

The CVR was recovered February 2 and contains slightly more than 30 minutes of data.

neuman · A List Star

262 - Roman Empire
The original Temple of Artemis in Ephesus is burnt down by the Goths.

Boring year, not alot happened :(

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

263-The Year

Liu Hui writes a commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, describing what will later be called Gaussian elimination, computing pi, etc.

neuman · A List Star

264 = 23·3·11, Harshad number

Asia
Sun Hao succeeds Sun Xiu as ruler of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu.

Deaths
Deng Ai, Wei general
Deng Zhong, Wei general, son of famed general Deng Ai
Jiang Wei, Shu general, grand commander and strategist, and foster son of Zhuge Liang
Liao Hua, general of Shu
Sima Zhao, Wei general, son of Sima Yi
Sun Xiu, emperor of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu
Zhang Bu, Wu general
Zhang Yi, Shu general
Zhong Hui, Wei general

Not alot happened apart from alot of deaths in China it seems

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

265 -

On November 12, 2001, American Airlines flight 587, an Airbus A300-600 on a scheduled flight to Santo Domingo, crashed into a neighborhood in Belle Harbor, New York shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 persons aboard and 5 on the ground. The plane's vertical stabilizer and rudder and both engines separated from the aircraft before it impacted the ground.

Just two months after 9/11; not a good year for New York.

neuman · A List Star

266

Events

Europe
Ireland The rule of High King Cormac mac Airt ends (approximate date).

Births
Wang Dun, general of Jin Dynasty

Another boring year :(

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

267

Zenobia sets herself up as Queen of Palmyra.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

268 - The 268 Metro line runs from Seattle to Redmond.

neuman · A List Star

269 -
269 is a regular prime, an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part, a long prime, a Chen prime, a Pillai prime, a Pythagorean prime, a twin prime, a sexy prime, a Higgs prime, a strong prime, and a highly cototient number.

Roman Empire
Claudius II repels a Gothic invasion of the Balkans at Naissus, and settles a number of Goths in vacant lands in the Danubian provinces.
The Heruli capture Athens.

Africa
Zenobia proclaims herself queen of Egypt.
The library at Alexandria is partly burned during a raid by Zabdas, general of Zenobia.

Religion
January 5 Pope Felix I succeeds Pope Dionysius as the 26th pope.
Paul of Samosata is deposed as Patriarch of Antioch (though he is not removed until 272).

Births
Murong Hui, Xianbei chief and Duke Xiang of Liaodong

Deaths
Saint Valentine (executed by Claudius II)
Lu Kai, nephew of Lu Xun
Wang Kang, prefect of Yongchang
Wang Xiang
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/269"

Symphony Of Destruction · Metal Mod

270 - That's all you need to know.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

271 - I have 271 DVDs.

braxious · 500 Club Member

272 thats 1/2 of 544

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

273-thats 1/2 of 546

Unone · On The Casting Couch

274 - The year AD the first emperor of Cheng Han, Li Xiong, is born

Its also the amount of times ive been caught.

-- Edited by Unone at 15:44, 2007-12-08

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

275...halfway to 550!

NymVette · Movie Producer

276

Roman Empire

* Emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus is slain by his own troops in Sicily.
* Florianus becomes Roman Emperor; his reign lasts less than one month.
* Probus becomes Roman Emperor.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

277 - 277 Elvira is a typical Main belt asteroid and a member of the Koronis asteroid family.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

278-C'mon guys...stop being lazy. We gotta get this going strong again!

braxious · 500 Club Member

279 and we march on

Man In Black · Anime Mod

280 - the weight of 20 stone in lbs

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

281-Club 281 is an adult club in Montreal, Canada.

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

282 - Emperor Probus is slain in a battle against the usurper Carus, an Illyrian and praetorian prefect, who subsequently becomes emperor.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

283-A prime number

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

284 - 284 degrees Celsius is the flash point of paper, i.e. the temperature the air would have to be for it to burst into flames

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

285-Interstate 285 is a beltway circling Atlanta, Georgia in the US.

neuman · A List Star

286 = 2·11·13, sphenic number, tetrahedral number, nontotient, also shorthand for the Intel 80286 microprocessor chip, weeeeeee computers :D

Man In Black · Anime Mod

287 - Yup ANOTHER former phone extension in my old job!!

Totoro101 · Movie Executive Producer

288 is two hundred plus eighty eight (i have nothing else..)

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

289

Yu Liang, general of Jin Dynasty, is born.

neuman · A List Star

290

"290" was the shipyard number of the CSS Alabama
The product of three primes, 290 is a sphenic number, and the sum of four consecutive primes (67 + 71 + 73 + 79). The sum of the squares of the divisors of 17 is 290.

Not only is it a nontotient and a noncototient, it is also an untouchable number.

290 is the 16th member of the Mian-Chowla sequence; it can't be obtained as the sum of any two previous terms in the sequence.

braxious · 500 Club Member

291 its just an number

neuman · A List Star

292 - The oldest known Mayan stele is erected

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

293

braxious wrote:

its just an number

Man In Black · Anime Mod

"an" number?

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

294--that's what it says.."an" number...you messed up the count, MiB.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Oi you should know by now - I'm MIB: Normal Rules Do Not Apply!

295 - the amount of seconds I was appalled for at the poor grammar in the above posted "an number"...

braxious · 500 Club Member

296

does grandma really matter

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

297

the amount of seconds that i laughed at the above post

DoctorOfDesire · 500 Club Member

298 - The amount of times this week I've heard 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day' by Wizard played at work! Aaaarrrggghh!

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

299

One away from 300!

(Look down)....