1. 2013 is the first year since 1432 that is a rearrangement of four consecutive numbers.
2. 2013 is also the 250th anniversary of 1763, which was the year London adopted house numbers.
3. The Duke of Wellington’s London home at Aspley House had the address Number One, London, as it was the first house one came across after tollgates at the top of Knightsbridge.
4. The Biblical Book of Numbers takes its name from two censuses numbering the people of Israel.
5. If you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, the answer comes to 666, the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation.
6. A car number plate bearing only the number ‘1’ sold for £7.1million at a charity auction in the United Arab Emirates in February, 2008.
7. Forty is the only number which when spelled out in English has its letters in alphabetical order.
8. The highest number that can be spelled out without using any letter more than once is five thousand. The next highest is eighty-four.
9. The word ‘hundred’ derives from ‘hundra’ in Old Norse, which originally meant 120.
10. 12 + 3 – 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100.
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