cazalea
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Heading for the redline!
Hello Purists. This is my 6000th post.
As a sign of respect for that large number, I took about 6000 seconds to compose an homage posting. I hope you enjoy this little diversion.
THE NUMBER SIX THOUSAND
Counting from 1 to 6000 takes about an hour
6,000 seconds is equal to 1 hour, 40 minutes
6000 is an even number composed of three distinct prime numbers (2,3,5) multiplied together:
(2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5 × 5 × 5)
6000 in Scientific notation: 6 × 10 to the 3rd
6000 in Number of distinct prime factors ω(n): 3
Sum of prime factors of 6000: 10
6000 has a total of 40 divisors
1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 12 15 16 20 24 25 30 40 48 50 60 75 80 100 120 125 150 200 240 250 300 375 400 500 600 750 1000 1200 1500 2000 3000 6000
6000 in Binary: 1011101110000 2
6000 in Hexadecimal: 0x1770
A FUN PAGE TO VISIT
A WATCH THAT COSTS $6000
TRIVIA
More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year.
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter
"Ripley’s Believe It or Not" declared Liberace “the fastest piano player in the world” for playing 6,000 notes in two minutes (in 1953).
Between 1982-2014, Vanna White appeared in 6000 episodes of Wheel of Fortune, wearing a different outfit each time!
NBC broadcast 6,000 hours of the Rio Olympics; for which they paid $1.2 billion
The highest place of human habitation is around 6000m (about 20,000 ft) elevation
The Bombardier Global 6000 has a cabin of 60 cubic meters and a range of 6000 NM
Lightning strikes 6,000 times every minute if you count all the strikes around the Earth
It's estimated that the average Westerner will eat 6000 pieces of pizza in their lifetime
After 6000 milliseconds I get bored with this kind of thing, so I'm signing off now.
Thanks for reading all these posts.
Cheers,
Cazalea
NOTE: 6000 Bonus points will be awarded to the Purist who identifies the origin of this tachometer (in what car was it fitted?)
Heading for the redline!
Hello Purists. This is my 6000th post. As a sign of respect for that large number, I took about 6000 seconds to compose an homage posting. I hope you enjoy this little diversion. THE NUMBER SIX THOUSAND Counting from 1 to 6000 takes about an hour 6,000 se...
Huge congratulations Mike for this milestone. On the road again in the direction of the 10K 😉
Regarding the tachometer, I bet on a Chevrolet Chevelle. Best wishes Alkiro
congrats on your 6000th posts
This tachometer belonge to the 1967-1969 camaro ss 350 and 396 dash board. I have noticed that you like older big luxury barges and muscle cars and that is cool too. Have a great week end regards Georges
You guys don't miss any tiny details, do you?
The place I took the photo from (before revving it up to 6000) says "1969 Camaro Z28, 396/375Hp 6" X 8" Tach with 6000 Red Line with 8000 RPM Maximum" ...
There is never a dull moment with Cazalea at the keyboard!
Yet another instructive and amusing post. Congratulations on the milestone.
All in all a brilliant contribution to our collective betterment...
Thank you for your many hours of giving, cars, watches, food & wine, travel & Seiko knowledge ;-) Cheers to you Mike! All the best, Tim
Congratulations on the 6k milestone.
You certainly put a lot of effort into editing that trivia! Thank you for being a great Purist., and thank you for all your great work as the Seiko forum moderator.
Thanks to you Luis6 for participating
Here's one for you Cat wanted in too. Cazalea ...
6.000 thoughtful, entertaining, interesting posts!
All I can say is to many more! If it is on the subject of cars, watches, travel, pumpkins - whatever topic possible- you can always be relied upon to bring a fresh, well argued perspective and always introducing interesting facts, too! Cannot wait for mor...
Congrats dear Cazalea for your 6K milestone! And you celebrate it with a fantastic post!...
... I always read with great delight your posts, not only about watches but about cars and other matters... Always interesting and surprising! Keep them coming! I make a toast for many many more K posts from you! Thank you so much! Cheers! Abel
Congrats!
What an achievement! And a lot of interesting "6000" facts. Hmm, is this tachometer off a certain Cadillac? Happy 6000 posts!