Posted on 01/02/2010 8:37:01 AM PST by Fractal Trader
Thoreau never had one during his lifetime. Neither did George Washington nor Albert Einstein. Today in the United States, which uses the month/day/year format for dates, there is a rare chance to celebrate a palindrome date - 01/02/2010 - which reads the same forward as it does backward.
Discuss COMMENTS (40) Jan. 2, 2010, is the second such date out of 36 that occurs this millennium. The first was 10/02/2001.
Aziz Inan, a University of Portland electrical engineering professor, has been studying this phenomenon and speaks with great enthusiasm as he describes the history of palindrome dates.
Before 2001, he excitedly pointed out in an interview yesterday, the most recent was in 1308, since days of the month never exceed 31. The next date comes next year: 11/02/2011.
In much of the rest of the world, todays date appears as day/month/year, or 02/01/2010. But for inhabitants of these countries, rest assured that there will be plenty of opportunities to celebrate even more than our paltry 36: they will get 60 between 2001 and 3000, Inan says.
Once you put the day in front of the month, everything changes for the rest of the world, said Inan, who is working on academic papers on the subject.
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I'm figuring the last palindrome of last millennium:
08/31/1380
You'll have to wait until 6009 to do that again.
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
Race Car backwards is....Race Car
I remember that!!
This made the cover of MAD magazine, IIRC. Last upside-down year ‘til 6009 !
Doc,note,I dissent.A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Geez. You gotta move fast around here!
Doesn’t September only have 30 days?
When my sister was little we would tease her, “Anna is a palindrome, Anna is a palindrome.” She would cry and run to my Mom and tell her we were teasing her.
We would reply that technically we weren’t teasing her, Anna really is a palindrome. My Mom never thought it was funny.
Oh boy! Let’s all CELEBRATE. Let’s all get drunk and act like idiots again—quick, to the Hallmark Store!
But srsly, who gives an actual crap? Dates are completely arbitrary.
I was stationed in Texas and started collecting kerosene lamps and old furniture. At an collectible fair I saw what old comics and magazines were worth. I returned home on leave with dollar signs in my eyes. Alas Dad had cleaned out the attic while installing new insallation and tossed my books. Darn!
Right - I re-figured it to 08/31/1380.
Only works with a leading zero which are useless anywhere but on forms.
Sex at noon taxes.
Yo, banana boy.
Lager, sir, is regal.
The new O. J. Simpson theme park...DNA Land
Do geese see God?
Adios, Ida.
From “The Ballad of Palindrome” by Riders in the Sky.
1-1-11, 11-1-11 11-11-11, 3 dates that are all ones in 2011, if you drop the 20.
So, Ida, adios.
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