Three digit significance
 

Here is an interesting experiment. In your mind, count slowly from 000 to 999 and note if that number has any significance to you, no matter how obscure (for numbers less than 100, you should include the leading zero(s); in other words, Heinz 57 doesn’t count because it normally is not represented with the leading zero, and 069 is right out unless you can think of a good explanation). If you have a suggestion, please annotate this list, Wikipedia style. I hope that at some point every combination from 000 to 999 will be used, and I will publish the list.

Here are mine so far:

000: Octal 0
001: Octal 1
002:
003:
004:
005:
006:
007: James Bond
008: James Bond’s replacement, if necessary
009:
010: Octal 2
011: Octal 3 (at this point no more of these)
012:
013:
014:

(From this point on, just insert your number and explanation)

111: A superstitious score in bowling; often drawn with an inverted ‘V’ over it

114: A recurring theme in Stanley Kubrick movies (i.e., ‘CRM-114’ in Dr. Strangelove)

150: Cessna light aircraft

210: Cessna light aircraft

212: Area code for NYC (Manhattan), New York

213: Area code for central Los Angeles, California

281: Area code of suburban Houston, Texas

310: Area code of western Los Angeles, California

409: A household cleaning product
Area code of areas outlying Houston, Texas, including Galveston

411: Information

420: Toke time

502: California police jargon for ‘Driving Under the Influence’

505: Area code for New Mexico

555: Area code of a fake number on television or in the movies

615: Area code for Nashville, Tennessee

666: Mark of the Beast
Former designation of a US Highway in northwestern New Mexico

707: Boeing passenger jet aircraft

713: Area code for central Houston, Texas

714: Quaalude
Sgt. Joe Friday’s badge number on ‘Dragnet’

747: Boeing passenger jet aircraft

767: Boeing passenger jet aircraft

777: A winning spin on a slot machine
Boeing passenger jet aircraft

800: Toll free number

818: Area code for San Fernando Valley area, California

832: Supplemental area code for Houston, Texas (most often used for cellular phones)

888: Toll free number

911: Emergency (US)

925: Common working hours in the United States (also a movie based upon it)

999: Phrase continuously repeated in the Beatles’ classic ‘White Album’ (Number 9, Number 9, Number 9…)

These are actually binary. 010 and 011 are Octal 8 and 9.

And 202 is the area code for DC.

303 - Model of a very popular old Roland bassline synth
808 - Model of a very popular old Roland analogue drum machine
321 - Contact, a kids show
330 - Excellent Gibson hollow-body electric guitar
335 - Ditto
816 - The area code of Kansas City, Missouri Metro
635 - Loop highway in KC
435 - Ditto
670 - You guessed it
291 - Missouri North/South State Route running from Harrisonville to Liberty
909 - As in the Beatles song, "The One After..."
910 - First series of Moog Modular Synthesizer's Oscillator
914 - Volkswagen in Porsche clothing
920 - Second series of Moog Modular Synthesizer's Oscillator, thermally compensated for enhanced stability

215, 230, 250, 265, 283, 302, 305, 307, 327, 348, 350, 396, 400, 427, 454 & 502 are Chevy engines. :biggrin:

151 - nicely strong variety of rum

301 - section of PA Mental Health Procedures Act that defines behaviors by which one can show danger to self or others as consequence of a mental illness

302 - section of PA MHPA that details procedures for involuntary psych evalution, including issuance of mental health warrants, and possible commitment for up to 120 hrs.

303 - extension of involuntary mental health treatment for up to 20 additional days.

304 - extension of involuntary mental health treatment for up to 90 additional days.

305 - extensionof involuntary mental health treatment for up to 180 additional days.

okay, okay, I'll stop ... there are only a couple others anyway.

714 - 'ludes.

707, 727, 737, 747 - Happy Family of Boeing commuter aircraft

Also 717, 757, 767, & 777. ;)

Far from exhaustive:

112 Fibonacci
212 Water boils; Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) invented mercury thermometer.
357 Dirty Harry ("so, punk, do you feel lucky?")
451 Ray Bradbury
666 Beelzebub
911 September 11.

404, file not found
668, next door neighbor of the beast

Hey, you stole my number!

203 CT area code (old)
404 Error
624 Part of an old Chicago tune (25 0r 624)
860 CT area code

501, 505 Levi jeans
610 Philly area code and Philly sports talk radio station (WIP)
711 Brand of convenience stores
128, 256, 512 multiples of two, always meaningful in computers (i.e., memory stick sizes)

100 record number of basketball points scored by Wilt Chamberlain
714 old record number of home runs by Babe Ruth
755 new record number of home runs by Hank Aaron

101 - Room, 1984
200 - HTTP, all ok
400 - Bad Request
403 - Permissions error
443 - SSL Port Number
500 - Internal Server Error
503 - Service Unavailable
613 - Victoria/Australia area code

guess what kind of work I've been doing of late...

doesn't this shit make you all a little bit crazy?

i mean, NBN more because he came up with this, but still....

100 - 100%
101 - first in a series of classes, a mild fever
106 - Highest fever possible before death
120 - major highway North of Atlanta
123 - One, Two, Three...
135 - SouthWest on a Compass
144 - 2m VHF band
151 - rum
158 - Commercial band begins at 158MHz
175 - Alcohol boiling point on Fahrenheit scale
180 - One-half a rotation in degrees, South on a Compass, degrees in a triangle
187 - LA police code for murder
192 - Classroom in the Life Sciences building I attend.
212 - Boiling point of water on Fahrenheit scale.
220 - 220MHz VHF band
224 - 2*2=4
225 - SouthEast on a Compass
234 - ...two, three, four...
246 - ...two, four, six...
256 - Colors in VGA, one-quarter of a byte
270 - West on a Compass
273 - Add to Celcius for Temperature in Kelvin
286 - Intel processor chip
301 - Major highway in Florida, area code in NY
311 - A horrible 90s bad
314 - Pi
315 - NorthWest on a Compass
321 - Three, two, one...
360 - One full rotation
386 - Intel processor chip
403 - Denied
404 - Not Found
420 - Stoner's time
440 - Engine, 70cm UHF band
441 - Major highway in the Southeast US
451 - Temperature at which books burn
486 - Intel processor
500 - Fortune 500
501 - Levi's Jeans
512 - One-half a byte
586 - Intel processor
614 - Area code in SouthEast Ohio
626 - Mazda 626
666 - Mark of the beast
691 - First part of my first phone number
700 - Religious Club
707 - Boeing Airliner
717 - Boeing that replaced the MD-80
727 - Boeing Airliner, Clearwater Area Code
737 - Boeing Airliner SouthWest uses exclusively
747 - Boeing Airliner for transoceanic travel
757 - Boeing Airliner
760 - Millimeters of Mercury held in a column equal to one atmosphere
767 - Boeing Airliner
777 - Newest Boeing Airliner
800 - Beginning of the Celluar UHF band
808 - "Nothin' sounds quite like an eight-oh-eight..."
813 - Tampa Area Code
820 - Time I should be leaving for work.
830 - "Shit, I'm late, again."
845 - Time I should be arriving for work.
911 - Emergency
930 - Meeting time at work.

Shouldn't 911 be something more to the tune of "Shit, I swalloed Draino again!"

866 - the first three digits of the square root of 3 divided by two (.866....), which is the value of cos(pi/6) and sin(pi/3)

Torrer, you are a real smartass.

NbN gets points for this interesting quiz, but how can you get "925 - Common working hours in the United States" but not get "365 - days in a year"?

180 - half rotation on an axis
#200 - did an animated version of my stickfigure comic instead of a static one
295 - Richmond VA area's "beltway"
300 - degrees(C) wood burns without an ignition source
302 - former apartment number
360 - full rotation on an axis
366 - days in Leap year
450 - current weight of my heaviest friend
495 - DC area's beltway
540 - Central/Central Western VA area code
650 - # of dollars it took to fix my car after the exhaust system disintegrated
703 - No. VA area code
757 - Tidewater VA area code
804 - South Central VA area code
955 - last call for breakfast at cafe at work

143. A number that keeps popping up in my life. Also my engineer number for work.
555. Subaru's sponsor for WRC rallying.
333. Satan's nipper's number.

Dirty Harry actually had a .44 magnum, not a wimpy little .357 :-)

006 -- James Bond's predecessor (Goldeneye, IIRC)
308 -- rifle caliber
215 -- Philadelphia area code
409 -- spray cleaner
609 -- New Jersey area code
610 -- Philadelphia suburbs area code

110 & 120 - Your nomal house voltage
220 - voltage at the panel and for large appliances
221 - whatever it takes

222 - "Room 222", TV show in the early 70s
777 - winning reels on many (most?) slot machines
100 - percentage to complete
300 - perfect bowling score
600 - rule-of-thumb miles to break in a new car

777 - Blackjack

405 - SEC "know your customer"

355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!

you forgot the 496, but i guess that's technically just a de-stroked 502.

909 and 951 are area codes for the eastern part of southern california.

Add the 787. :)

*Bump*

222 - 'Room 222', a '70s TV show with hottie Karen Valentine (she's probably on RetroCrush.com for you youngsters)

223 - Caliber of a Mini-14 and other NATO rounds

308 - Ferrari

321 - Liftoff

626 - Sporty Mazda

911 - Sept 11, duh
Porsche

928 - Porsche

944 - Porsche (I actually owned one of these eons ago)

302 - Delaware area code
411 - Telephone directory
789 - reminds me of a childhood joke.. why was 6 afraid of 7? because 789!

306 - As in my mum's red Peugeot 306 car, the one i am now old enough to drive! Yay!

Should have put in my last post,

300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 380, Happy family of Airbus aircraft if you put an A in front of them

289 - # of dollars i have left to earn before qualifying for my 8 day mediterranean cruise.

902- My area code (Halifax, NS)
300- the .300 Savage my Dad has in his will to me.
160- the fastest I have had my 2000 Echo going. (in km/h) and the cost in $$thousands of my dream car for the city- a M-B SL500.
512- amount of SDRAM I have in my comp.