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damo666 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:32 pm

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Prefer mine lol

Bah you didn't have Angels mate - I win

851 ΑD Viking raiders enter the Thames Estuary and plunder Canterbury and London. They land at Wembury near Plymouth but are defeated by Anglo-Saxon forces led by King Ethelwulf of Wessex. His eldest son Æthelstan of Kent, accompanied by Ealdorman Ealhhere, attacks a Viking fleet off the coast at Sandwich and captures nine of the enemy vessels while the remainder flees.

852 is the lowest pentagonal Smith number that is not semiprime

853 is the lowest Perrin number that has the quality of dividing into the sum of the first of that many primes.

854 ΑD King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund. At the same time Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships. 15 years later, in another raid Ubba will kill Edmund.

855 the lowest composite decagonal centred cube number

856 the lowest composite nonagonal centred pentagonal number

857 AD Vikings raid Orleans and Paris. Where are a body of water sailable they can go and no one is safe from them.

858 is the lowest Giuga number with 4 distinct prime factors

859 - the number of plastic shopping bags my ex-wife keeps in a kitchen draw

860 - the number of cats’ eyes between junction 10 and 10a on the M6 in England.

861 - the parking lot between numbers 197 and 199 in the bullring shopping centre painted by a drunken employee who was allegedly sacked the following day.

862 = Brian Lara’s highest test score + Brian Lara’s second highest test score + my highest break in snooker + 70 apples.

I don't think Maniac is taking this seriously.

863 AD Arab Muslim forces invade Cappadocia and the Armenian provinces of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines meet them in battle and annihilate them. This relieves the pressure of the eastern border of the empire buying them time to face other enemies.

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:24 pm

I don't think Maniac is taking this seriously.

I think he can't spell "drawer".

864 = (2 * 3 * 2 * 3 * 2 * 3 * 2) * 2

Wouldn't be simpler to say (2 on the 4th power * 3 on the 3rd power) * 2?

865 AD Kassiani, a Byzantine abbess and hymnographer, dies. She is one of the first Early Medieval composers of many hymns and a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

"859–855. THE ASSYRIAN CONQUEST OF NORTHERN ARAM. Shalmeneser III engaged a coalition of northern Aramean kings, Khayan of Ya'diya (Sam'al) and Akhuni of Bit Adini, and the Hittite states of Carchemish and Khattina. . . ."

"860. First appearance of the Russians (Varangians) at Constantinople."

"852–86 Muhammad I. He put down another Christian uprising in Córdoba, and carried on extensive operations against the Christian states of Leon, Galicia, and Navarre (Pampeluna taken 861)."

"862–63. The Great Mosque of Qayrawan in Tunisia built by the Aghlabid dynasty."