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PRINCE WILLIAM wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:55 pm

459 On September 1st dies saint Simon the Stylitis (from the greek stylos meaning pillar, he lived most of his life as a monk on top of a pillar). Not to be confused with the saint with the same name who lived a century later also on a pillar.

Nor to be confused with the college chums in the USA in the 1920s who sat on poles.

The record of which did NOT exceed 460 hours.

461 AD Leo pope of Rome dies. With him is associated one of the mysteries of history. Nine years earlier Attila invaded Italy and was closing to Rome. Leo went out to meet him. He spoke alone to the man the whole world was afraid of and persuaded him to retreat and not attack. What did he say to make the Barbarian go back? No one knows, nor the pope neither Attila confided to anyone what was said.

462 the number of ways you can select 5 from 11.

For example the first 5 penalty takers from a football team.

463 is a number....

464 is symmetrical

465 us not. . and is a sequence that apparently us confusing for my granddaughter, who uses that sequence when attempting to count...

How old is now your granddaughter?

466 AD, Leo the I, emperor of the East Roman Empire defeats the Huns who invade Balkans but fail before the walls of Constantinople (without Attila their empire is doomed to die soοn).

467 believed to be the year of birth of Cerdic first king of Wessex

468 BC Sofocles defeats Aeschylus at the Dionysia (a festival honouring Dionysus, the god of wine but also the protector of drama).

469 the lowest centred hexagonal number which is not square, triangular nor dodecagonal.

470... The original number of days imagined by tolkien in a year in middle-earth. He changed his mind, at least partially for math-reasons. And my granddaughter is 2.5 earth years old.

How fast time flies by! I remember when you announced us her birth and that is already 2.5 years ago!

471Folowing the murder of Goth general Aspar the gates of Constantinople are closed and his troops and followers massacred. This is the end of the presence of Goths in the capital and their influence.

472 the lowest nontotient, untouchable, refactorable number that contains an odd digit.

Just in case you were wondering the only lower nontotient, untouchable, refactorable number is 248.

473 Julius Nepos claims the throne of the West Roman Empire, he will get next year and hold it for one year only.

474 the lowest sphenic untouchable nonagonal number

475 Romulus Augustus rises on the throne of the West Roman Empire; he's called Augustulus (little Augustus) scornfully. He was to be the last emperor to the Wst Roman Empire.

In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.

(I admit I did a cheating cut and paste... but it says it all!)

477: Starting at and including 0 and counting in the positive direction, the 42nd-smallest integer x such that x^2 + 2 is prime.

478
JMO would write this number: 111011110

479 AD Ostrogoths invade (once more) the Byzantine Empire.