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Cambridge Computer IDs World's Most Boring Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-they-can dept.

smitty777 writes "Scientists hard at work at Cambridge used a computer algorithm and nearly 300 million historical facts to identify the most boring day in history. The winner? On April 11, 1954, absolutely nothing happened. That is, unless you count the most boring day in the world happening."

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  1. Re:Doesn't this in fact make it an interesting day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get your set theory out of here. We are talking finite here...finite number of days and finite number of events. The poster's logic above was correct. The number of events may seem infinite to you, but they still are finite...just like there are a finite number of atoms in the universe. The number is huge, but it is theoretically countable.

    And fuck you for making me even have to waste time thinking about set theory class where we pointless shit like debate why 2 + 2 = 4.