| If current trends continue, then in the year … | … there will have been as many Splendid Bowls as there are or were: |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Faces and vertices of the medial rhombic triacontahedron |
| 2026 | Days in January and February (non-bissextile years) |
| 2026 | Minimum number of games in the National Hockey League postseason (per rules in effect for 2015) |
| 2027 | Days in January and February (leap years) |
| 2028 | Counties in New York State |
| 2031 | Years between a Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania groundhog’s first being recorded to predict the weather and the predictive groundhog’s receiving the name “Phil” [1] |
| 2034 | Secretaries of State of the United States (as of 2015) |
| 2044 | Inches of height of Michael Jordan |
| 2048 | Games in a regular National Basketball Association season (as of 2015) |
| 2049 | Episodes of the original Star Trek |
| 2054 | International Astronomical Union-recognized constellations |
| 2071 | Maximum number of games in the National Hockey League postseason (per rules in effect for 2015) |
| 2173 | Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (as of January 2015) |
| 2331 | Days in the year |
| 2686 | Species of Pokemon revealed as of 2015 |
| 9886 | Elements of the sporadic Mathieu group M11 |
1: Wikipedia’s description is very breezy and chatty, causing me to doubt that the topic has been the subject of credible historical inquiry.
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