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Happy 'Even Day' - the First in 1112 Years

Posted by Roblimo on from the fun-with-numerology dept.

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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  1. News You'll Never See on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    News You'll Never See on /.

    Apologies, Corrections
    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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  2. Just more Slashdot biases by Hrunting · · Score: 4

    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.

  3. *1*2/28/888??? by Whizard · · Score: 4

    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. Re:*1*2/28/888??? by gravis777 · · Score: 4

      I was hoping someone would state this. 08/28/888 was the last day this hapened, and not in December. HOWEVER, weren't we on a slightly different callender in 888? I think we were on the Roman calender by this date, but I know it is not the same calender we use today. Can anyone shed a little more lite on this?

  4. Re:Zero isn't an even number. by Tava · · Score: 4

    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!