Obama's inauguration by numbers
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1 million people are expected to view the inauguration from the Washington Mall. (Reuters: Jason Reed)
US President-elect Barack Obama's historic inauguration in Washington on January 20 means crunching a lot of numbers. Here is a snapshot of some of them:
0: The temperature in degrees Celsius forecast for inauguration day.
55: The number of previous presidential inaugurations.
850: Washington's Metro rail service says it will have that many rail cars, capable of carrying 120,000 people every hour, operating between 4.00am and 9.00pm on the day.
5,000: The number of portable toilets to be distributed on the National Mall.
8,000: Some 4,000 city police officers will be deployed along with 4,000 from 96 other law enforcement agencies across the country.
$8,249: The price of a seat at the swearing-in ceremony being advertised by one online ticket broker.
10,000: The number of buses that city transportation and Secret Service officials expect to ferry people to Washington. Placed end to end, the buses would stretch 137 kilometres.
32,000: The total number of military personnel who will be on duty or on stand-by for the inauguration.
240,000: The number of tickets have been distributed, free of charge, for the swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill.
1 million: The number of people expected to view the inauguration from the National Mall. Hundreds of thousands more will pack Pennsylvania Avenue to watch the inaugural parade. The record was set during the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon B Johnson, when 1.2 million people attended.
-Reuters
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