Posted on 05/07/2009 2:03:07 PM PDT by Daffynition
An interesting and shall we say odd excuse has been found for celebrating the seventh of may! The man to do so is none other than Ron Gordon, the founder of square root day! Gordon is a math teacher from the Redwood City,California and has pointed out that todays date, written in the American format, 5/7/09, is one among six in this century. Gordon finds the day a perfectly odd, excuse to celebrate the day with some odd celebration!
It is indeed an interesting numerical sequence, but Gordon is so excited that he is actually offering a prize of 5-7-9 dollars for the odd celebrator, one who celebrates the day most enthusiastically or one who gets the most number of people to celebrate it! The details may be found on their website. However the American format of writing the date (month-date-year)is not really popular all over the world.Mostly is is other way round (date-month-year). Even so who would want to lose the opportunity of doing something odd when the prize for the contest winner is 579 dollars! Number lovers at least will surely agree.
Gordon says that The previous stretch of six dates like this started with 1/3/1905 - 13 months after the Wright Brothers flight. Gordon has invented, so may we say the square root day which is 3/3/09. Its not such a bad idea it seems, to do something queer like this, celebrate an odd day with the perfect oddness possible!
Every King has his Ade...
...with this fellow...
>> Gordon is a math teacher from the Redwood City,California and has pointed out that todays date, written in the American format, 5/7/09, is one among six in this century.<<
It’s among six WHATS this century?
>> Gordon finds the day a perfectly odd, excuse to celebrate the day with some odd celebration! <<
A perfectly odd WHAT?
Why isn’t 5/7/11 perfectly odd? or 5/7/13? Or 5/9/13? or 5/11/13?
Big deal. Five out of four kids can’t do math. They kan’t spel, ether.
I think they have to be in sequential order, i.e., 1/3/05, 3/5/07/, 5/7/09,...11/13/15. Sadly, when written out without the slashes, none of these are prime. Now that would have been something to celebrate!
“Odd Day”? “Prime Day” would be cooler (if math can be cool).
That has past ... Saturday, 25th April 2009, was a prime number day. [Saturday, 25/4/09 or 5²/2²/3²]
It means the Mother Ship ain't never coming back.
15/17/19, 17/19/21... there are 47 of those, not 6.
LOL. I was only average at math. Thanks for solving that equation. :~))
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