BABs Created During Fall 2009 Semester

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BABs are listed in the order in which they were created during the Fall 2009 Semester.

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  1. Summer 2009 Break to Fall 2009 Semester Transition [18 August 2009]
  2. Buying New Twitter Followers [18 August 2009]
  3. July 2009 PPI Down 0.9%, Core PPI Down 0.1% [18 August 2009]
  4. About the Number 700 (seven hundred) [20 August 2009]
  5. About the Number 38 (thirty-eight) [20 August 2009]
  6. Robert Plant, John Hiatt, Brad Avery Have August 20th Birthdays [21 August 2009]
  7. Three-Fifths of a Mile in Ten Seconds [21 August 2009]
  8. Fall 2009 Semester Begins [24 August 2009]
  9. About the Number 256 (two hundred fifty-six) [24 August 2009]
  10. Smokey Bear Turned 65 on 9 August 2009 [25 August 2009]
  11. Galileo's Telescope Turns 400 [25 August 2009]
  12. Is Nine Trillion a Big Number? [26 August 2009]
  13. The Length of $9 Trillion in $1 Bills [27 August 2009]
  14. About the Number 163 (one hundred sixty-three) [29 August 2009]
  15. CQ + PQ Greater Than IQ [30 August 2009]
  16. BARS:: 57 Miles From Winston, New Mexico [30 August 2009]
  17. September 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [31 August 2009]
  18. Pay For Print [01 September 2009]
  19. World's Oldest Dog Dies [01 September 2009]
  20. Stocks on Alert Spam [02 September 2009]
  21. Equations Extracted From BARS [04 September 2009]
  22. Betty Hits 80 Years of Age (ditto for Bob Newhart) [05 September 2009]
  23. About the Number 861 (eight hundred sixty-one) [07 September 2009]
  24. About the Number 1882 (one thousand eight hundred eighty-two) [07 September 2009]
  25. Labor Day 2009 [07 September 2009]
  26. The KMA Buys a Cray Supercomputer [08 September 2009]
  27. Fun Date: 09/09/09 [09 September 2009]
  28. Spire Corp. Focusing on Solar [10 September 2009]
  29. 10 September 2001 Stock Market Comparison With 11 September 2009 [11 September 2009]
  30. Gertrude Baines Dead At 115 [13 September 2009]
  31. Math and Science are Important, But Where's the Computing? [14 September 2009]
  32. August 2009 PPI Up 1.7%, Core PPI Up 0.2% [15 September 2009]
  33. August 2009 CPI Up 0.4%, Core CPI Up 0.1% [16 September 2009]
  34. First Extrasolar Planet Discovered: Corot-7b [16 September 2009]
  35. U.S. Constitution Day [17 September 2009]
  36. About the Number 1787 (one thousand seven hundred eighty-seven) [17 September 2009]
  37. About Basic Arithmetic Dates (BADs) [17 September 2009]
  38. Evaluating 2^3^4 [19 September 2009]
  39. About the Number 1109 (one thousand one hundred nine) [19 September 2009]
  40. BARS:: 18 Miles From Earth on US Hwy-70 in Texas [20 September 2009]
  41. Google Pays Tribute to H.G. Wells [21 September 2009]
  42. About the Number 1866 (one thousand eight hundred sixty-six) [21 September 2009]
  43. About the Number 1924 (one thousand nine hundred twenty-four) [22 September 2009]
  44. BARS:: 27 Miles to Hugoton in Hooker, Oklahoma [23 September 2009]
  45. Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged (2009.09.23) [24 September 2009]
  46. Business Travel Spending Generates Revenue [24 September 2009]
  47. Google Tweet Contains Exponents [25 September 2009]
  48. Google Turns Eleven Years Young [28 September 2009]
  49. What is 1,784 billion trillion? [29 September 2009]
  50. About the Number 64146 (sixty-four thousand one hundred forty-six) [30 September 2009]
  51. October 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [01 October 2009]
  52. About the Number 1869 (one thousand eight hundred sixty-nine) [02 October 2009]
  53. About the Number 2016 (two thousand sixteen) [02 October 2009]
  54. Pavel Popovich is Dead at 78 [04 October 2009]
  55. Google Pays Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi [05 October 2009]
  56. About the Number 900 (nine hundred) [05 October 2009]
  57. Nanofoo's Tweet Count Hits 900 [06 October 2009]
  58. MathBabbler's Property Tax 2009 [07 October 2009]
  59. Google Pays Tribute to the Barcode [07 October 2009]
  60. Google's Street View [08 October 2009]
  61. Triangular Numbers [09 October 2009]
  62. BARS:: Street Signs on a Card in Tempe, Arizona [11 October 2009]
  63. About the Number 1492 (one thousand four hundred ninety-two) [12 October 2009]
  64. About the Number 517 (five hundred seventeen) [12 October 2009]
  65. Road Trip From Blythe, CA, To Blytheville, AK [13 October 2009]
  66. Federal Government Spending Borrowed Money [13 October 2009]
  67. BAB Number 2500 [14 October 2009]
  68. About the Number 1709 (one thousand seven hundred nine) [14 October 2009]
  69. BARS:: Distance Guide From Under Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach, California [15 October 2009]
  70. September 2009 CPI Up 0.2%, Core CPI Up 0.2% [15 October 2009]
  71. About the Number 800 (eight hundred) [15 October 2009]
  72. About the Number 512 (five hundred twelve) [15 October 2009]
  73. About the Number 7000 (seven thousand) [16 October 2009]
  74. About the Number 942 (nine hundred forty-two) [16 October 2009]
  75. Leyland Numbers [17 October 2009]
  76. Record Temperature Recorded in Phoenix on 17 October 2009 [18 October 2009]
  77. Adding Up Loose Change [19 October 2009]
  78. Hecto-Pi Numbers [19 October 2009]
  79. September 2009 PPI Down 0.6%, Core PPI Down 0.1% [20 October 2009]
  80. Fifteen Percent [21 October 2009]
  81. About the Number 39 (thirty-nine) [22 October 2009]
  82. About the Number 46 (forty-six) [22 October 2009]
  83. About the Number 58 (fifty-eight) [22 October 2009]
  84. nBABs For Numbers 10-99 Are Done [22 October 2009]
  85. About the Number 103 (one hundred three) [22 October 2009]
  86. About the Number 350 (three hundred fifty) [24 October 2009]
  87. Sell Yahoo! and Buy Google? [27 October 2009]
  88. StemCells Inc. Sells More Stock [28 October 2009]
  89. Nanofoo's Tweet Counter Hits 1000 [29 October 2009]
  90. About the Number 296 (two hundred ninety-six) [29 October 2009]
  91. About the Number 264 (two hundred sixty-four) [30 October 2009]
  92. BAD::November 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [01 November 2009]
  93. About the Number 2525 (two thousand two hundred twenty-five) [01 November 2009]
  94. H.Res.784 Honors Confucius [03 November 2009]
  95. The World's First Cash Register [04 November 2009]
  96. About the Number 1879 (one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine) [04 November 2009]
  97. Tempe Voters Approve School Bond [04 November 2009]
  98. Tempe Voters Approve School Bond (Algebra) [05 November 2009]
  99. BARS:: Nearing Araby Road in Yuma, Arizona [07 November 2009]
  100. The Ages of Betty and Truman [09 November 2009]
  101. Joey Chestnut Wins By a Meatball [10 November 2009]
  102. Gold Hits $1100 an Ounce [10 November 2009]
  103. About the Number 2536 (two thousand five hundred thirty six) [10 November 2009]
  104. About the Number 104 (one hundred four) [10 November 2009]
  105. Sesame Street Turns 40 [10 November 2009]
  106. About the Number 106 (one hundred six) [10 November 2009]
  107. About the Number 107 (one hundred seven) [11 November 2009]
  108. 12 November 2009--Neil Young at 64 and WWW at 19 [11 November 2009]
  109. Space Hotel To Open In 2012? [16 November 2009]
  110. About the Number 110 (one hundred ten) [17 November 2009]
  111. About the Number 111 (one hundred eleven) [17 November 2009]
  112. October 2009 PPI Up 0.3%, Core PPI Down 0.6% [17 November 2009]
  113. Bob Seger's 'Feel Like A Number' [18 November 2009]
  114. About the Number 1978 (one thousand nine hundred seventy-eight) [18 November 2009]
  115. About the Number 1982 (one thousand nine hundred eighty-two) [18 November 2009]
  116. October 2009 CPI Up 0.3%, Core CPI Up 0.2% [18 November 2009]
  117. About the Number 2549 (two thousand five hundred forty-nine) [18 November 2009]
  118. About the Number 118 (one hundred eighteen) [18 November 2009]
  119. About the Number 117 (one hundred seventeen) [18 November 2009]
  120. About the Number 120 (one hundred twenty) [18 November 2009]
  121. About the Number 116 (one hundred sixteen) [18 November 2009]
  122. World Toliet Day 2009 [19 November 2009]
  123. The Gettysburg Address [19 November 2009]
  124. BARS:: US Hwy-6 and IL Hwy-53 in Downtown Joliet, Illinois [20 November 2009]
  125. BARS:: A Road Sign From France [22 November 2009]
  126. About the Number 124 (one hundred twenty-four) [22 November 2009]
  127. Brian Williams on Blogging [23 November 2009]
  128. About the Number 2999 (two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine) [23 November 2009]
  129. Greenland Losing Ice and Sea Levels Are Rising [24 November 2009]
  130. About the Number 1859 (one thousand eight hundred fifty-nine) [24 November 2009]
  131. On the Origin of Species [24 November 2009]
  132. About the Number 2564 (two thousand five hundred sixty-four) [25 November 2009]
  133. About the Number 1981 (one thousand nine hundred eighty-one) [25 November 2009]
  134. Is 'n' a Sum of Consecutive Primes? [25 November 2009]
  135. BAD::December 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [27 November 2009]
  136. BAD::February 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [27 November 2009]
  137. BAD::January 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates [27 November 2009]
  138. Sharks Can Easily Smell Blood [29 November 2009]
  139. About the Number 139 (one hundred thirty-nine) [29 November 2009]
  140. About the Number 129 (one hundred twenty-nine) [29 November 2009]
  141. About the Number 130 (one hundred thirty) [29 November 2009]
  142. About the Number 142 (one hundred forty-two) [29 November 2009]
  143. About the Number 143 (one hundred forty-three) [29 November 2009]
  144. Factorials [29 November 2009]
  145. About the Number 5040 (five thousand forty) [30 November 2009]
  146. About the Number 5041 (five thousand forty-one) [30 November 2009]
  147. More About the Number 5040 [30 November 2009]
  148. About the Number 2581 (two thousand five hundred eighty-one) [30 November 2009]
  149. About the Number 3031 (three thousand thirty-one) [30 November 2009]
  150. About the Number 150 (one hundred fifty) [01 December 2009]
  151. World AIDS Day 2009 [01 December 2009]
  152. Multiples of 10 [01 December 2009]
  153. Gold Hits $1200 an Ounce [01 December 2009]
  154. 30,000 Troops Headed To Afghanistan [03 December 2009]
  155. Facebook Has Lots of Faces [03 December 2009]
  156. Exercises From American Intellectual Arithmetic [06 December 2009]
  157. BARS:: 47 Miles From Dateland, Arizona [06 December 2009]
  158. BARS:: 5 Miles From Paloma Road in Arizona [07 December 2009]
  159. New BARS Evaluation: rsTweetLenEval [07 December 2009]
  160. About the Number 286 (two hundred eighty-six) [07 December 2009]
  161. About the Number 161 (one hundred sixty-one) [07 December 2009]
  162. About the Number 131 (one hundred thirty-one) [07 December 2009]
  163. An Alernative Way To Generate Odd Numbers [07 December 2009]
  164. About the Number 164 (one hundred sixty-four) [07 December 2009]
  165. Attack on Pearl Harbor - 7 December 1941 [07 December 2009]
  166. About the Number 299 (two hundred ninety-nine) [07 December 2009]
  167. About the Number 2600 (two thousand six hundred) [08 December 2009]
  168. About the Number 2601 (two thousand six hundred one) [08 December 2009]
  169. BAB Number 2600; nBAB Number 300 [08 December 2009]
  170. Google Doodle Honors E. C. Segar [08 December 2009]
  171. The Price of Amazon.com Versus the Price of Gold [09 December 2009]
  172. About the Number 132 (one hundred thirty-two) [11 December 2009]
  173. BARS:: Duiven Exit in Germany [11 December 2009]
  174. Americans Consumed a Lot of Bytes In 2008 [12 December 2009]
  175. Everyday Should Be World Toilet Day [13 December 2009]
  176. 1.1 trillion and 1.5 trillion [15 December 2009]
  177. Google Honors L. L. Zamenhof [15 December 2009]
  178. November 2009 PPI Up 1.8%, Core PPI Up 0.5% [15 December 2009]
  179. About the Number 133 (one hundred thirty-three) [15 December 2009]
  180. About the Number 1791 (one thousand seven hundred ninety-one) [15 December 2009]
  181. MathBabbler Tweet Count Hits 400 [15 December 2009]
  182. Passenger Counts Inch Up [16 December 2009]
  183. An Alternative Way To Generate Even Numbers [16 December 2009]
  184. Some Doses of Swine Flu Vaccine Recalled [16 December 2009]
  185. Wired.com Honors Gustave Eiffel [16 December 2009]
  186. About the Number 1832 (one thousand eight hundred thirty-two) [16 December 2009]
  187. November 2009 CPI Up 0.4%, Core CPI Unchanged [16 December 2009]
  188. The Decimalization of Stock Prices Moment [17 December 2009]
  189. Boring Math? The Cost of a Cab Ride [17 December 2009]
  190. A Billion Kilometers Away [18 December 2009]
  191. U.S. Broadband Usage Growing Exponentially? [18 December 2009]
  192. Useless Knowledge About Blood Vessels [18 December 2009]
  193. About the Number 193 (one hundred ninty-three) [18 December 2009]
BABs::Updated During Fall 2009 Semester.

The following are existing BABs that were updated during the Fall 2009 Semester.

  1. About the Number 180 (one hundred eighty)
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 27 February 2008]
  2. About the Number 218 (two hundred eighteen)
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 27 April 2009]
  3. ThurmNumbers
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 30 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 29 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 23 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 18 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 17 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 10 November 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 22 October 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 16 October 2009; created 20 July 2009]
    [updated 17 September 2009; created 20 July 2009]
  4. About the Number 400 (four hundred)
    [updated 15 December 2009; posted 13 May 2009; created 10 April 2009]
    [updated 25 August 2009; posted 13 May 2009; created 10 April 2009]
  5. About the Number 1859 (one thousand eight hundred fifty-nine)
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 24 November 2009]
  6. Big Numbers
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 06 September 2006]
  7. Noting Changes To U.S. Population Component Settings
    [updated 15 December 2009; created 18 November 2006]
  8. Zuckerman Numbers
    [updated 11 December 2009; created 01 August 2009]
    [updated 17 November 2009; created 01 August 2009]
  9. Ruth-Aaron Pairs
    [updated 08 December 2009; created 10 July 2009]
  10. Square Numbers
    [updated 08 December 2009; created 10 April 2009]
    [updated 30 November 2009; created 10 April 2009]
  11. Every Road Sign is a BARS (Basic Arithmetic Road Sign)
    [updated 07 December 2009; created 23 April 2008]
  12. About the Number 120 (one hundred twenty)
    [updated 06 December 2009; created 18 November 2009]
  13. About the Number 1957 (one thousand nine hundred fifty-seven)
    [updated 06 December 2009; created 05 October 2005]
    [updated 23 October 2009; created 05 October 2005]
    [updated 12 October 2009; created 05 October 2005]
    [updated 24 August 2009; created 05 October 2005]
  14. BARS:: 5 Miles From Landers on CA Hwy-247 in California
    [updated 30 November 2009; created 19 January 2009]
  15. About the Number 42 (forty-two)
    [updated 27 November 2009; created 04 July 2007]
  16. MathBabbler's Number Analyst (MBNA)
    [updated 24 November 2009; created 18 April 2008]
    [updated 17 October 2009; created 18 April 2008]
    [updated 08 October 2009; created 18 April 2008]
  17. BAD::July 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates
    [updated 23 November 2009; created 09 July 2009]
  18. The Eisenstein Primes
    [updated 23 November 2009; created 08 April 2009]
    [updated 18 November 2009; created 08 April 2009]
    [updated 14 October 2009; created 08 April 2009]
    [updated 19 September 2009; created 08 April 2009]
    [updated 17 September 2009; created 08 April 2009]
  19. BAD::August 2009 Basic Arithmetic Dates
    [updated 22 November 2009; created 28 July 2009]
  20. BARS:: Pi Sign on Pi Day 2009 in Tucson, Arizona
    [updated 22 November 2009; created 15 March 2009]
  21. Triangular Numbers
    [updated 18 November 2009; created 09 October 2009]
  22. Veterans Day 2008 (and 2009)
    [updated 11 November 2009; created 11 November 2008]
  23. The Hurricanes of 2009
    [updated 09 November 2009; created 01 June 2009]
    [updated 06 October 2009; created 01 June 2009]
    [updated 10 September 2009; created 01 June 2009]
    [updated 26 August 2009; created 01 June 2009]
  24. 9 November 2008 Revisited
    [updated 09 November 2009; created 02 December 2008]
  25. Hecto-Pi Numbers
    [updated 07 November 2009; created 19 October 2009]
  26. BARS:: Mingus Mountain Along AZ Hwy-89A South of Jerome, Arizona
    [updated 04 November 2009; created 28 May 2006]
  27. BARS:: Six Miles From Number Nine, Arkansas
    [updated 17 October 2009; created 27 September 2007]
  28. BARS:: 36 Miles From Liberal and Plains in Kansas
    [updated 16 October 2009; created 20 May 2007]
  29. BARS:: AZ Hwy-89 Eight Miles South of Prescott in Arizona
    [updated 16 October 2009; created 24 September 2006]
  30. Multiples of 100
    [updated 16 October 2009; created 12 June 2009]
    [updated 15 October 2009; created 12 June 2009]
    [updated 05 October 2009; created 12 June 2009]
    [updated 20 August 2009; created 12 June 2009]
  31. Powers of 2
    [updated 15 October 2009; created 11 April 2009]
    [updated 24 August 2009; created 11 April 2009]
  32. BARS:: Upcoming Exits on Eastbound I-40 Albuquerque, New Mexico
    [updated 09 October 2009; created 16 March 2007]
  33. BARS:: Approaching I-25 on US Hwy-50 in Pueblo, Colorado
    [updated 09 October 2009; created 21 May 2007]
  34. About the Number 78 (seventy-eight)
    [updated 04 October 2009; created 12 April 2009]
  35. BARS:: Signs From Downtown Mountainair, New Mexico
    [updated 01 October 2009; created 14 July 2009]
  36. About the Number 1039 (one thousand thirty-nine)
    [updated 20 September 2009; created 03 May 2009]
  37. BARS:: 6 Miles From Earth on US Hwy-70 in Texas
    [updated 20 September 2009; created 04 July 2009]
  38. BARS:: 100 E 1st St and 200 N Amherst Rd in Earth, Texas
    [updated 20 September 2009; created 04 July 2009]
  39. About the Number 79031 (seventy-nine thousand thirty-one)
    [updated 20 September 2009; created 07 July 2009]
  40. About the Number 1109 (one thousand one hundred nine)
    [updated 20 September 2009; created 19 September 2009]
  41. BARS:: Live Free or Die in New Hampshire
    [updated 19 September 2009; created 20 December 2005]
  42. BARS:: 4, 4, 6 -- Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky
    [updated 18 September 2009; created 03 July 2006]
  43. BARS:: Start North-Bound AZ Hwy-72 at Hope, Arizona
    [updated 18 September 2009; created 07 January 2007]
  44. Math and Science are Important, But Where's the Computing?
    [updated 16 September 2009; created 14 September 2009]
  45. Happy Square-Root Pi Day
    [updated 14 September 2009; created 14 September 2008]
  46. About the Number 115 (one hundred fifteen)
    [updated 13 September 2009; created 28 November 2008]
  47. BARS:: Heading East on I-40 to Winslow, Arizona
    [updated 11 September 2009; created 18 March 2006]
  48. About the Number 80 (eighty)
    [updated 05 September 2009; created 25 February 2009]
  49. BARS:: Four Miles From Otter Creek in Bar Harbor, Maine
    [updated 04 September 2009; created 15 August 2007]
  50. BARS:: Imperial Dam on the Colorodo River in California
    [updated 04 September 2009; created 17 December 2007]
  51. BARS:: 10 Miles North of Yuma on US Hwy-95 in Arizona
    [updated 04 September 2009; created 17 December 2007]
  52. Google Calculator Moments
    [updated 31 August 2009; created 25 November 2008]
  53. BARS:: 4 Miles to Kalaheo on the Island of Kauai in Hawaiib
    [updated 27 August 2009; created 05 August 2008]
  54. BARS:: AZ County Hwy-153 at AZ Hwy-95
    [updated 27 August 2009; created 10 October 2005]
  55. BARS:: Lombardi Ave. on US Hwy-41 in Green Bay, Wisconsin
    [updated 27 August 2009; created 28 May 2009]
  56. BARS:: 4 Miles to Kalaheo on the Island of Kauai in Hawaiib
    [updated 27 August 2009; created 05 August 2008]
  57. BARS:: AZ County Hwy-153 at AZ Hwy-95
    [updated 27 August 2009; created 10 October 2005]
  58. About the Number 77 (seventy-seven)
    [updated 26 August 2009; created 29 March 2009]
  59. About the Number 65 (sixty-five)
    [updated 25 August 2009; created 10 August 2008]
  60. Following @whitehouse On Twitter
    [updated 23 August 2009; posted 14 August 2009; created 27 July 2009]
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Creator: Gerald Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 17 August 2009

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