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This Rare Friday the 13th

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paraskavedekatriaphobes-unite dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes to point out a Washington Times story about how special this particular Friday the 13th is. The digits in the numerical notation for the date add up to 13 — whether you write it in the US or the European form. From the article: "The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520."

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  1. Re:-1, Who Cares by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps not to you but Jan. 13, 1520 was the date of Johann Gutenberg's last solid crap....not something to be taken lightly, historically speaking that is....

  2. mod uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    leaving core. I asshole a3out.' One

  3. Re:Commutivity by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Troll

    1520 + 476 = 1996 - now that is +5 Interesting.

    Also, from the +5 Interesting department:

    1111 + 2222 = 3333
    1010 + 101 = 1111

    and not to forget the classics

    7 * 6 = 42

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