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Happy 'Even Day' - the First in 1112 Years
schmofo writes "Today is the first day since Dec. 28, 888 (12-28-888) to have only even digits in its numerical format (02-02-2000). This is quite an event, and complements the last odd day for as long, which occurred back in November." It's also Groundhog day; take a look at Google's logo o' the day. Cute! Update: There is an error above as submitted, which I should have caught: should have been 08/28/888, 12/28/888.
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Posted by CmdrTaco on 3:10 PM February 2nd, 2000
from the we-were-wrong dept.
We hereby officially apologize for the past mistakes we've made while reporting the news, flagrant errors such as Microsoft being run by space aliens, the RIAA's involvement in JFK's assassinations, and anything posted by Robin. We will take special care in the future to prevent this from happening, as we know that most people on Slashdot cannot tell the difference between facts, opinions, lies, and FUD.
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Why does Slashdot have to always assume that the dating method they use is the one that everyone uses? It's like Taco and Hemos and the others are saying, "Well, we use it, and we're Slashdot, so everyone else must use it, too, because we're the Start Page of the universe!" Well, I got news for you, bubbas, there are other dating systems.
There's the Muslim calendar. There's the Jewish calendar. There's the Greek Orthodox calendar. Some guy came up with a calendar where every month got 30 days, except December which got 35. Is it Happy Even Day in these cultures? Oh, no, and they're left out of the fun because of it. Personally, I use the Personal calendar, where the date is 154/22 (the 154th day of my 22nd year). Give it a few more months and I'll be celebrating Happy Even Day, but will Slashdot recognize that?! Oh, no. Because Slashdot's calendar is the only calendar.
I want news, not this editorial garbage. If Slashdot's truly news for nerds, how come we're not celebrating Happy Even Day on the moment when the number of seconds since the epoch has all even digits, huh?
Sheesh.
NOTE: This post not meant for the humor (or humour) impaired.
Since when is 1 an even digit? 12/28/888 has all even numbers in its numeric representation, but not all even digits. 08/28/888 would have been the last one with all even digits.
1) 0 IS a number! There is a huge difference between "nothing" (in math terms the empty set) and a "something" that has a value 0! In other words {0} (the set with 0 as its only element) is very different from the empty set.
2) 0 is an even number: the definition of "even numbers" is the set E subset of Z {u in Z | u = 0 mod 2}. Is 0 Even? YES! 0%2=0!
- 0 is not even.
- 1 is even.
- 3 is even.
- 0 is not a number.
- Infinity is a number.
And now you're telling me that 1 is prime. Hmm, there goes the Fundamental Theory of Arithmetic...--
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I remember back when years ago when the Inet was new and corporate interests played no part in site design and the big sites often changed they're logos and such around holidays. Not just the major holidays but groundhogs day and such too. I even remember some of the big ones playing April fools jokes. Now it seems that things are just a bit colder out there on the Inet. Sure sites toss up a little story about the holiday, but it's just not the same anymore.
I say YAY to Google for keeping a little humanity and fun on the internet. It's not a big deal, but it's nice to see.
I'm surprised that your Canadian wife has never heard of Wiaton Willie. He's the freaky ground hog that Canadians scare the shi* out of every year. I think they killed him last year.
It was funny to read their site. Apparently their groundhog festival is "the" festival of all festivals on February second. It also made me laugh to note that the Town had Trademarked the name "Wiarton Willie".
*All mentions of "Wiarton Willie" used entirely without permission
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I noticed that the Google groundhog is not casting a shadow, which should indicate a quick end to this winter. On the other hand, all the Google letters are casting shadows, so without the appropriate amount of caffeine, I am unable to determine the significance of this augury.
Slightly disreputable, albeit gregarious
An Integer of the form N=2n, where n is an Integer. The even numbers are therefore ..., -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, ...
If this is wrong, can you explain to me why 0 isn't even?
Even if the day has to be shared with Phil the evenkeeled rodent,
Even if the 2nd month is an uneven leap year month and is evenly spaced every four years,
Even if the year will eventually end with the dawn of an even millennium,
Even though this is Slashdot and this post has an even number of lines, and even number of words and an even number of letters, it's still Wednesday.
Isn't that odd?
Never knock on Death's door:
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Why? So you can get your long distance for less?
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Intelligence is definitely a recessive trait.
called for a boycott of Groundhog Day until the groundhog releases Spring under the GPL.
Sad really.