28 September: 271

Today is day 271 of 2021. 10 things you might not know about the number 271:

1. The Roman numeral for 271 is CCLXXI and the Binary number is 100001111.
2. George W. Bush won the 2000 US Presidential Election with 271 electoral votes, even though Al Gore had received a majority of the popular vote.
3. 271 is a sexy prime with 277. Sexy primes are prime numbers which differ from each other by 6.
4. 271 Penthesilea is a large Asteroid, the last to be discovered by Viktor Knorre, in 1887. It was named after Penthesilea, the mythical Greek queen of the Amazons.
5. In London, the 271 Bus route runs from South Grove to Finsbury Square.
6. The A271 road runs East-West from Battle to Horsebridge near Hailsham.
7. The year 271 was a common year starting on a Sunday known at the time as as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelianus and Bassus. During this year, the battles of Placentia, Fano and Pavia took place; Zenobia proclaimed herself to be Empress, breaking all relations with Rome, and a magnetic compass was first used in China.
8. Arp 271 is a pair of similarly sized interacting spiral galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427, in the constellation of Virgo. They may or may not eventually collide but in the mean time (for a few million years) they will continue to interact with each other, creating new stars as a result of the mutual gravitational attraction between them. There is a bridge of stars already connecting the two. Arp 271 is about 130 million light-years away, and about 130,000 light-years across. It was discovered in 1785 by William Herschel.
9. The HMS Plym (K 271) was a River-class anti-submarine frigate built for the Royal Navy, which was destroyed in Britain's first A-bomb explosion off the Monte Bello Islands, Australia in 1952.
10. The energy of the number 271 is a force to be reckoned with. It represents creativity, will power and concentration and people influenced by it are often high achievers or strong leaders. The down side is that they can be selfish and boastful.

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