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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Right. Article said there’s something like 36 of them in this millennium...
PALIN-drome: any news article about Sarah Palin that drives liberals so mad they don’t know if they’re coming or going...
>PALIN-drome: any news article about Sarah Palin that drives liberals so mad they dont know if theyre coming or going...<
Wouldn’t that be any article about Sarah Palin?
See post 39,,,I goofed,,,,there are 4,,left out 1-11-11.
PDS alive and well: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=54481
No surprise there...
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