Looking at the bitcoin block chain on blockchain.info, I was wondering what happened to block #1551. Have a look here:
http://blockchain.info/block-index/1551You'll see that this is block #1550, I've just addressed it by the block-index number in the URL, and they follow one another. However, the address for the next block is:
http://blockchain.info/block-index/3104Why does block #1551 have block-index 3104 and not 1552? The block-index had incremented by 1 along with the block number from the start, but when I was expecting an increment by 1 from 1551 to 1552, it incremented by 1553 from 1551 to 3104. Is this just a peculiarity of blockchain.info's URLs? I notice that 1552 + 1552 = 3104, but that doesn't mean anything to me.
MOD EDIT:
Added (blockchain.info) to the title to make this less confusing.