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Happy Odd Day!
From a mailing-list "Today is November 19th, 1999. The numerical format for today is 19-11-1999. All of the digits are odd. The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away, which we will never see. Days such as 13-4-89 have both even and odd digits, thus, it is neither odd nor even. The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 28-8-888. So, now you have a reason to celebrate this Friday as it'll be your last odd day on Earth!!!!!!" So Slashdot wishes you a nice odd day!
I couldn't sleep last night. I just felt, well...
Odd.
Happy Odd Day everybody! Muttley
I like stories like this. It just made me smile, and feel warm and fuzzy inside. Things like this let me know not to take life too seriously. It's the little things that can make a person happy.
Happy odd day, everyone!
-Mog
Happy Odd Day I guess :)
Damn, I'm getting all teary eye'd and sentimental..
Enjoy your day guys.
...but I expect to live to see 1-1-3111. :^)
As Woody Allen said, some people try to achieve immortality through their work, others through their children. I hope to achieve immortality by not dying.
So is that why the demo for Linux was delayed another day?
13579
First odd numbered post!
(insert groan here...)
Who comes up with this stuff?
Wouldn't that be odd... It' all GNU to me...;-)
I thought zero was neither odd nor even. Since multiplying a negative by a (-1) gets a positive, and multiplying a positive by (-1) gets a negative. But multiplying 0 by (-1) still gives 0, I thought it was neither negative nor positive.
True that! It confuses the crap out of my teachers when I put the date for the jewish calendar on my papers...
"Ok, what about 11/21/99? 11/23/99? Obviously you can't have an odd day in December or the year 2000, but what stops 11/19/2001 from being an odd day?"
Well, it might have something to do with the "2" in 21, 23, and 2000, Me ole' China.
actually, i think the most idiotic thing is that for someone who thinks it's idiotic, _you_ replied!
happy odd day
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
The 2 and 0s?
Yeah, my logic fault was that I assumed that 2001 was an odd number. It is, but not if you count each digit individually.
Sig missing. Reward.
1999 is indeed prime.
Exactly, For 10 days out of every other month we've been odd. Some of us have been outright strange. But now because of the impending even month And the curse of an 1111 even years to come, we must stop being strange. No more may we enjoy a day of oddities. In short oddness has been banished from this land for the next 1111 years.
This is easier:
bash$ factor 1999
1999: 1999
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Every day is Odd Day for me.
FALSE. that is prime numbers. 9 is odd and 1,3,AND 9 factor into it, for example. -@
Dude, 1999 is still odd, whether in seperate digits or as a whole.
Although, this isn't terribly fascinating, seeing as how 11-19-1997 was all odd, too.
Just add this article to the "Whoopty-frickin'-doo" dept.
-Alkaiser
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Dude, what's even more to talk about is the fact that you got trolled!
If you are looking at digits, then the next even year is 2/2/2222, since 0 is not odd nor even. But if you are looking at the whole year, then 2000 is even. But that means that 1/1/2001 would be the next odd day, since 2001 is odd. So I suspect that it is digits we are looking at. Therefore, enjoy today while you can, it's going to be a *LOOOONG* time until an even or odd day.
--mere mortal--
11-30-1999 ?
Does anyone remember were they were at
12:34:56 on 7/8/90 ? (following American date "standard, July 8th).
A perfect sequeance of numbers
or, for others. August 7th.
That won't happen for a few years.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
"They refuse to listen"? How odd. All it takes is a simple demonstration of Cantor's diagonalization approach, and there you have it.
And what better day will there ever be for getting even?
Actually, the Law of Integer Convolution states: d = (n/*3)*0 which proves that all dates are actually zero and therefore all are odd, and that time in fact does not progress at all.
on 2-2-2000, the first even day since 12-28-0888 (1111 years, 10 months and 26 days before).
Well, we might get an even day soon. We haven't had those for quite a while...
No, the article said that it was an all odd day, not that Satan had driven to work in a Zamboni.
When I was a wee lad I noticed that 1961 was still 1961 if you wrote it down and rotated the page 180 degrees, and I went through the trouble to figure out that it would be a long time before that happened again. (The exercise is left to the reader.)
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
well, neither appearance of "1" in that date is even.
err... the 2 in 21 and 23? the 2 in 2001?
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken
Heh. It won't be the last prime day this year either. We'll have 2 more, on 11/23, and on 11/29. After that, no more prime days til 2001.
Dan S.
Yeah, you are an idiot but since you pulled the old "I should be moderated down" trick, you will actually be moderated to a 5.
Why are people making such a fuss from y2k, next millennium is coming in 1000 years already, but next OD takes over 1112 years. And where are OD bugs... maybe some programmer used ODs as quitting instruction! P.S. I could've written first post here, truthfully, but I got OD-mad. Sniff.
- Kaatunut
Is 0 even or odd?
But the sizes of the set of rational numbers and :)
the set of integers are equal.
Just prove to your coworkers' satisfaction that
the irrational numbers are uncountable (i.e. cannot be paired one-to-one with the integers).
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I don't suffer from insanity- I enjoy it immensly!
However, all of number theory relies on the fact that 1 is not prime. The Fundamental Theory of Arithmetic (that every number has a unique prime factorization) would fall flat on its face if you could stick in as many 1's as you wanted.
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Mmmmm this day seems no different than any other one to me...how odd. HEY!!! :)
"I'm not a procrastinator, I'm temporally challenged"
Today 11/19/1999 is also a prime day (as noted earlier) but not the last in the near future.
11/23/1999 and 11/29/1999 will also be prime days, but they'll be the last we'll see until 2/2/2003. Of course there will be a slew of them in 2003, but then no more until 2011, then 2017.
Enjoy the prime days while they last, especially this last odd one!
Kevin
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Cool, so as another poster mentioned, 11:59:59 19/11/1999 is the last odd timestamp of our lifetimes. It's also an entirely prime timestamp!
That will be one primo second to be alive!
Eric
BTW am I the only one that gets really sick of hearing the acronym Y2K? I mean "year 2000" flows easier than Y2K and doesn't really take longer to say. Why must we give "cute" names to everything?
O my god.
I really wonder what the average IQ of Slashdotreaders is. Although it clearly states in sengan's post that it's the last odd day for a while, at least 50% of the comments so far are something like "But what about 11/17/99?". The other 50% are "But 1/1/2001 is also odd", not reading sengan's post that clearly states that all digits are prime.
So I went to my favorite IRC channel, complained about the stupidity of Slashdotters, and one guy responds: "But the 13th of November was also odd". Not to mention people who misread odd for prime.... sigh.
Now I can also see JP's reasoning, that he thought, quote, "people who frequent this type of forum are of an intellectual nature." and that he was very disappointed with the resuls.
Yeah yeah, go ahead and moderate me down for flamebait or troll. I wont see it anyway, my comment mode is set to "nocomments" from now on.
On a related note, I'm glad to see the Slashdot polls finally got to a somewhat higher level, there isn't even a Hemos The Hamster College in the poll. (although this poll is limited to a very few of us, the actual CS Grad students living in the US, but that's a completely different point)
<grub> Reading
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the last prime number day was 7/31/1999 and the next one is 1/1/2003.
Party on!
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
Actually, for the next few years anyway, considering numbers instead of digits increases the rarity. Counting only digits means that 1/1/2000 is a prime day, and 1/3/2000, and 1/5/2000... and... unless 0 isn't a prime number. Hmmmm.....
Jerm
Oh, you're not a real doctor, are you?
It is indeed a Prime Day. The next Prime Day will be a few years from now: 2/2/2003. So, Prime Days are pretty rare too, if not quite so as Odd Days, thanks to 2 being prime. Also, for Prime Days, I'm considering numbers, not digits, which also reduces the rarity.
I think he's just pointing out this is the last "Odd Day" for nearly a millenia. Those were odd days.
There's nothing odd about 2 being the only even prime. It's just about definition. I could make up a name blaablaa to describe integers which have a factor of 3 and call 3 the only prime which is blaablaad.
Ok, here is the deal. There have been many odd days in 1999, but this is the last one. While 11-17-1999 was an odd day (as Denor said) it isn't the last odd day. Here is why: 19 is the last odd day of the month, and then december is 12, which doesn't allow for more odd days this year. Then all of the 2000's have 2 in the front, no odd day's until 3000. Then we have to wait until 3111, when we can have all odd's in the year. As for another suggestion, 10-28-1888 is nothing. 8, 0 and 2 are even, while 1 is odd.
Although, this isn't terribly fascinating, seeing as how 11-19-1997 was all odd, too.
And last Wednesday, and last Monday. And the Saturday before that. And the Thursday before that. And Tuesday before that. Then the previous Sunday. And that Friday, Wednesday and Monday.
Woo. I'm underwhelmed.
Last time I checked, 1,1,2001 is odd...
The formula for odd numbers is 2*(n+.5)
N for 2001 = 100
N for 1 = 0
It may be the last one of the millenium, but not the last we will be alive to see. (At least I hope so!)
This kind of story brings out the people who don't bother to read before they post. 2001 contains 3 even digits, 2, 0, and 0. the requirements state that all digits must be odd.
Kintanon
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However, 11191999 is not prime (factors to 7,13,29, and 4241), and neither is 1159591119999 (one factor is 2130917, I didn't wait for the rest :-)
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
it was a typo..he meant "primestamp"
+&x
I haven't read the ISO standard, but couldn't YYYY-MM-DD be confused with YYYY-DD-MM? I prefer to use DD-MMM-YYYY, e.g. 19-Nov-1999 There is absolutely no way to confuse any part with any other, the units are in increasing order from smallest to largest, and the alphabetic bit in the middle clearly separates the numeric bits. You can even write it DDMMMYYYY if you're lazy, since 19Nov1999 is more readable than 19991119 or 11191999.
Of course if you're writing a program it's slightly easier to deal with all numeric dates, but is there anybody here who thinks mapping twelve three character strings to numbers and back is the least bit difficult?
All Real numbers are not Integers, but all Integers are Real.
While we're being pedantic, this should read "Not all Real numbers are Integers," or better, "Not all real numbers are integers." The way you phrased it seems to say that none of the real numbers are also integers, which is the opposite of your point.
"All people are not dead" is very different from "Not all people are dead."
Sorry, but with all this fine logical niggling going on, I couldn't help myself.
... then today is also 111999. Three ones and three nines. Wheeeeeeeeee!
So why isn't anyone making a fuss about THAT little fact, but they all did about 090999?
One has two factors anyway. 1 and itself. Just because 'itself' and '1' are the same numerically, it doesn't mean that they couldn't be counted seprately.
:)
For example, on two dice, how many combinations of results that add up to 7 are there?
1,6
2,5
3,4
4,3
5,2
6,1
So, do you have a 3 in 36 chance of a lucky seven, or 6 in 36?
My money says 6.
(Assuming full ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD and that 0 is not odd)
Chance of it being an odd year:
1/2 ^4 = 1/16
Chance of it being an odd month:
1/12 (only November)
Chance of it being an odd day:
about (1/2 * 5/30) + (1/2 * 6/31) = 1/12 + 3/31 = 67/372
(Half the months have 31 days, so they have an extra odd day. The "about" is due to my ignoring leap years, which changes that 30 in the dividend to a 28 or 29 for 1/12 (ish) of the months)
So overall, the odds are about:
67 out of 71424 days or 0.09386% of the time.
so in 10000 years, there are 3,423 ODD days. So not many at all.
Now even days are quite a bit more likely, since the odds of the months being even are 4/12. But I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
It is a ODD day only because all of the individual digits are ODD, we are not looking if the day, month and year is divisable by 2, just each digit. 11-21-1999 is odd mathimatically, but the digit '2' is even.... see.
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They mean the individual digits, not the actual dates. Hence no 2's allowed, which rules out the entire next millennium.
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1. I realize I am incorrect, given that there is a 1 in the above mentioned date. 2. Didn't read initial posting thoroughly, as it has already made this point (but correctly.) 3. Going off to sulk now...many apologies :-(
The new millenium starts in year 2001 not 2000.
Why limit yourself to decimal dates? In base 2000+ it's an odd day every other day.
Speaking of not reading the post, if you read the
*5* other replies, you would notice that:
A) the first response was mine saying "Oops sorry, please moderate me down."
B) 4 People have already responded.
Myddrin
This does not work according to the Simpson's calendar. Remember the Nightmare On Evergreen Terrace episode, the parents of the school kids gathered to discuss the misprinted calendars ("Lousy Smarch weather"... --Homer Simpson) on the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month, so the last ODD day in Springfield is 19-13-1999 (DD-MM-YYYY), or possibly 31-13-1999.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Both 11 and 59 are primes. So 11:59:59 19/11/1999 is your last prime time stamp in your life.
Urm. So you're saying that 4.6 is an odd number? Integers.
There is actually an interesting writeup on this question in a book called "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" by Paul Hoffman. It is a biography of a mathematician named Paul Erdos who actually contributed to a proof of why this is so. A highly recommended read about a life that was only about math.
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
What about 1-1-1? And 1-11-1111, or 1-3-1313? Oh, and what about 13-13-1313? Shouldn't these also be odd days?
I don't know if that was done on purpose or not but...MODERATE THAT UP, that was the first thing i've laughed out loud about today ;)
What about non-english speakers? Using 3-letter designations is language-specific, and still not internationally portable.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
Everyone knows time is really the "number of non-leap seconds since January 1, 1970" You don't see us celebrating the odd seconds to do you? If given an excuse probably would though :->
An Explanation: To all who didnt get what was so special about today - it's not the fact that its an odd day - there were many of those lately, its the fact that the next one will occuar in more then a 1K years from now!
A Query: Since when does 0 count as an even number? I was under the impression it is neither...
Please correct me if I was wrong.
oh yeah - Happy Odd Day (and may you live to see the next...)
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ---Euripides
How about November 21, 1999
19:59:59, actually :) and yes, still prime :)
Various ramblings
And aren't there some years where there are two of the same month? Must make it tough to schedule appointments.
George
This is just result of the common decimal notation. If we use hexadecimal notation, then all of this changes.
Personally, I find all these people talking about the new millenium in 2000 to be complete idiots. The new millenium doesn't start until the end of 2048.
Of course, by the time 1-1-3111 is around, we'll be using a calendar that counts time from some differnt point... like the birthdate of Linus ("he who delivered us from the beast of Redmond") or the first packet transmitted on the Internet, or the dissolution of Microsoft...
Of course, even if we had an odd or even day then, our robot masters, (whose internal clocks tick off the seconds from the curiously arbitrary point in time marked on our calendar as 1-1-1970) won't allow us to celebrate. They will whip us, and we will get back to work, while cursing our ancestors for fixing the bug that would have made them all crash early in the 21st century..
So what happened in 1/1/2001? It's also an odd year - OK, it's comprised of odd and even digits, but that does exclude it from being an odd year?
Starting with the year 2000, we'll be seeing alot of palendromic dates.. i.e.:
:)
October 2, 2001 (10-02-2001)
of course, if you thing that using zero-padded numbers is cheating, you'll have to wait until 2101 (October 21, 2101). Then there's the eurpoeans who put the day first, but I'm american and I don't feel like figuring out the first european palendromic date.
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At least it is on all those damn computers with that Y2K bug...
if so then that would mean the first real odd day is 11-11-3111
Well, 1999 is prime as well.
Furthermore, many have pointed out the last odd second, which is this evening at 19:59:59. Well, we already know that 19 is prime... and so as 59. So the last odd second (until 3111) is also all-prime!
And now, featuring the all-nude, all-prime review!
well, where I came from the monday is the first day of the week, so friday would be fifth! :-)
also, anybody noticed how odd it is to consider sunday to be the first day of the week, while at the same time it is definitely part of weekEND? one could argue that it is the last day of week (but then again, one could argue almost anything:-)
erik
...all excited, don't know why...
I realy like a sig. I like that one. And you know what? I'd bet it is...
Those of us who prefer fixed width formats will have to wait until the eleventh of November, 3111.
though i refuse to think past december 9999 --mark
Wekk, if you are using our calendar (which many cultures in the world do not even recognize anyway), this day can't be odd because it is Friday: the -6th- day of the week :)
Nose -Common Sense isn't.
>Another once in a lifetime moment:
>1:23:45 6/7/89
Ah, but if you managed to cross the Atlantic between June 7 and July 6 then you could hit this one twice!
>Because the format would read "01-01-1999", with the zeros being even.
Sheesh, how pendantic can this get, anyway?
Using padded formats means we would need to wait until 11/11/3111, do you really want us to wait yet another 10 months after waiting over 1000 years? It's bad enough getting people to realize the next millenium is 2001...
Week, if you are using our calendar (which many cultures in the world do not even recognize anyway), this day can't be odd because it is Friday: the -6th- day of the week :)
Nose
Nose -Common Sense isn't.
I think the most idiotic thing I've ever heard is how many slashdotters think 1 is even and 2 is odd. (I already knew how many of them posted questions before reading the article.)
Depends on if you start the array at 0 or 1..
Anyway, this ALL depends on the supposed date of a deity-son's birth. That's silly because it could be off by 3 - 30 years. go figure.
Lowmag.net
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken
2003, actually, since 2001=3*23*29
Various ramblings
Well, if you are using our calendar (which many cultures in the world do not even recognize anyway), this day can't be odd because it is Friday: the -6th- day of the week :)
Nose
Nose -Common Sense isn't.
Yeah, but the leap month is simply referred to as "Adar II"
:-)
(as opposed to "Adar, the month", or "Adar II: The Wrath of Haman", or "Adar-3D, the search for forced humor"
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If I remember my number theory correctly, zero doesn't count as an even number. Therefore, the next even year doesn't come till 2/2/2222.
Of course, we all know the new millenium doesn't start till 1/1/2001, but everyone's celebrating on 1/1/2000 anyway. So we might as well consider 2/2/2000 an even day.
Haven't there been several odd days this month? I mean, 11/1/99, or maybe 11/3/99, or even 11/5/99? I might not be the smartest man in the world (I think I am number 3), but I do know the definition of odd. I think it is odd that this post made it to /.'s front page...
what about 19-13-1999? wouldn't that be an odd day as well? every digit is odd, is it not?
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Isn't 19-11-1997 an odd day? Just wondering....
It said odd numbers though... I don't quite get that... that would be silly since 21/11/1999 (november 21, 1999) should be the next "odd" day... and even if it's primes... then 23/11/1999 (november 23, 1999) should be the next "prime" day. What's up with this... maybe I missed some significance here... I'm confused about what's so special with today!!
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heh even my supreme ruler cron says its odd, as 5 is the number of friday :)
In a year that is odd (like 1999) you'll have a number of odd days (a bunch of them on each odd month). This is the last odd month of this odd year - years from now until 3111 will contain one or more even digits (sounds counterintuitive, but think about it).
Since today is the 19th, whichever way you write is 19/11/1999 or 11/19/1999 - there won't be anymore dates with only odd digits.
Plenty of even days coming up next year though...
I should hope that Microsoft is split up into an even number of parts on an even day. It's only fair to restore the balance on an even day...
Stuff that doesn't matter.
who cares?
This will happen 37 times in 4 months from 11/2221 to 2/2222 11/1/2221 11/2/2221 11/11/2221 11/12/2221 11/21/2221 11/22/2221 12/1/2221 12/2/2221 12/11/2221 12/12/2221 12/21/2221 12/22/2221 1/1/2222 1/2/2222 1/11/2222 1/12/2222 1/21/2222 1/22/2222 2/1/2222 2/2/2222 2/3/2222 2/4/2222 2/5/2222 2/6/2222 2/7/2222 2/8/2222 2/9/2222 2/11/2222 2/12/2222 2/21/2222 2/22/2222 2/23/2222 2/24/2222 2/25/2222 2/26/2222 2/27/2222 2/28/2222
What about 13-11-1999? 15-11-1999? 11-11-1999? I can think of thousands of odd days.
11/31/1999 would be a odder (?) day.
either way, it's still 1000 years ;]
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Amen, I always hated how people seemed so amazed by this when it is simply a definition.
What a coincidence. Everyone always told me I was odd.
Happy 23rd to me! Yippee!
In a year that is odd (like 1999) you'll have a number of odd days (a bunch of them on each odd month). This is the last odd month of this odd year - years from now until 3111 will contain one or more even digits (sounds counterintuitive, but think about it).
Since today is the 19th, whichever way you write is 19/11/1999 or 11/19/1999 - there won't be anymore dates with only odd digits.
Plenty of even days coming up next year though...
I should hope that Microsoft is split up into an even number of parts on an even day. It's only fair to restore the balance on an even day...
but, 9 is not prime. due to this, and the fact that 2 is, the next "prime" timestamp we will see is 2:22:22, 2-2-2222. the last one was 23:57:57 7-29-777, over 1200 years ago!
Is each digit in the day, month, and year odd, when each of these quantities is written with no leading zeros? (if you write 01, why not write 001, or 000000001; this would lead to there being only even days)
21/11/1999 (this Sunday) is NOT an odd day, since although 21 is an odd number, one of its digits (2) is an even number.
Yes, 11/11/1999, 13/11/1999, 1/11/1999, 9/9/1999, 1/1/1999, etc are all odd days. If the year is composed of odd digits, you get a lot of odd days, but no even days. By the same token, an even digited year yeilds only even days - no odd.
The point is that today is the last odd day this year, and after that, we won't see any more odd days for 1100 years. This is because all the years will have '2' as their first digit. 3111 is the next year after 1999 with all odd digits, so that will be the next year with an odd day in it.
In a few years (8000), the division between odd and even years will be even greater. 28/8/8888 will be the last even day until 2/2/20000 (yes, 20K). The period after 28/8/28888, until 1/1/31111 (2333 years) will have no odd or even days at all. Eventually we'll see /. postings about the last odd day for 1E9 years, instead of a paltry 1100 or so. (Note to those readers currently 'under age': No matter how slowly it seems to be approaching, you will definitely be able to buy beer by then.)
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Posted by NJViking:
No that's not it.
23:59:59 would be the last odd timestamp!
-= NJViking =-
1-1-2011
(*psst* get it? after Dec 31, 1999, the date becomes 1901...so, 2011 would be 1911...funny, huh?)
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YOU IDIOT!!!!
ODD DIGITS DIGITS
NOT ODD NUMBERS!
21 IS ODD BUT EACH DIGIT IS NOT ODD
I'm correcting you. November has a whole slew of them. The 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 29th.
pooptruck
i am such an idiot. i meant 23:57:57 7-27-777.
That's the number of days in the interval between
this odd day and the next one. Of course, it
falls out from the specification of an odd day
and arithmetic, (and a little luck with the
number of days this month) but it's still kind of
neat.
If that wasn't enough to make you feel warm and fuzzy:
TODAY IS A PRIME DAY, ALSO!
The last prime day for a while (until 2/2/2003) will be 11/29. That is phat.
And if that wasn't cool enough- 3/3/3119 is the next prime odd day. Wow....deep....warm and fuzzy.
-mark
If your computer says LINUX, run...computers can't talk! [unless you have text-speech software]
I was looking for a reason to get totally trashed tonight!! looks like I found it!
Cool man. I love it when some poser code monkey gets exposed by a better code monkey.
Hate to interject this but if you actually look at this from a mathmatics standpoint the 2-2-2000 bit doesn't stand up as '0' is neither even nor odd... Techinically you are on the right track but the next _all_ even date would be 2-2-2222...
* <--- the joke you -------> :|
...who loved stuff like this. (He probably mentioned it in class today back home.) I just missed his anniversary, too -- he got married on November 18, 1988, or 111888. He even has that six-digit number engraved on the innerside of his wedding ring.
We won't have any of those combos around again until 11/11/2011 (111111) or 11/12/2022 (111222) if you want distinct digits.
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According to my calculations, the next odd date in unix is on Feb 20, 2000, at 21:31:51. :)
What dates are twin primes, though! :) Here are a few (looking at each month/day/year as a prime):
3/3/1997 and 5/5/1999
5/11/1997 and 7/13/1999
5/3/2081 and 7/5/2083
5/3/2111 and 7/5/2113
5/17/2999 and 7/19/3001
I'd type them all out, but I just don't have the time. :)
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I'm rather happy about the next even day, as that will be my birthday. An excuse to skip school for a coupla days and go to LWE. I admit it, I'm a groundhog, but it feels good to hawe a birthday on a holiday of sorts and to be born in the month of love... hey, wonder if I can use that for a pick up line?
If you think you know what the hell is really going on you're probably full of shit.
If you think you know what the hell is really going on you're probably full of shit.
jdube is who I am.
The odd day example views the year digits individually. Otherwise the year 1600 would be even and more recent than 888.
If 1999 is viewed as [1, 9, 9, 9], a 1 is not prime (according to Merriam-Webster).
The next prime year would be 2222. The next prime date would then be 2-2-2222. A most Odd prime date.
I like the fact that:
"...next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 28-8-888."
We will have to PARTY on 2/2/00.. I mean, sheesh.. 1112 years have passed. let us celebrate the dawning of a new age.
Brain Malfunction...
Segmentation Fault...
Core Dumped.
Ok, I realised that they actually meant ALL digits odd, as opposed to the actual numbers. That would then rule out 3/11/1999 (march 11, 1999) becuase it's actually 03/11/1999, and 0 is even... well sort of, that's actually mathematically debate-able, but I guess the idea is that all the digits are odd (and even if 0 isn't even, then neither is it odd).
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Perhaps someone should modify XTraceRoute to show the physical location that corresponds to the current time_t.
If you're going to throw away the month information, why not throw away the year information, and use a 'day' offset from some arbitrary date? Then you just have a nice integer to work with.
If I'm not mistaken, 21-11-1999 is odd and it occurs in just two days, then after that will be 23-11-1999, 25-11-1999, and so on. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Now if you are talking about odd and prime then that might be another story...
> For me, it's incredibly rare to see a BDOS on my NT server.
SP4 fixes this. Go get it here.
Whoa, no it's not!
1159591119999/2130917 is about 544174.7
um, dude:
A)Slashdot is based in the US if i am not mistaken, and no one has said anything that suggests that it has a responsibility to be international (As nice as that would be).
B)Just reverse the numbers and have a happy 19/11/1999.
I agree with you about the date format, but it is not something to get bent out of shape about.
Oh yeah, well I count my weekdays zero-indexed. Sunday is 0, Friday is 5. So there :)
The third millennium is 2001-3000 ;-)
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Sorry, obscure anime reference...
Consider the following:
During the 6 month period, 9/1/1999-2/29/2000, there will have been several days whose dates are entirely composed of exactly two digits...
9/1/1999
9/9/1999
9/11/1999
9/19/1999
11/1/1999
11/9/1999
11/11/1999
11/19/1999 (today)
2/2/2000
2/22/2000
I haven't explored it further, but now I am curious... has any other comparatively short period been likewise bless()'d ?
This is my opinion and my opinion only. Incidentally, IANAL.
MOO;IANAL.
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Couldn't resist blowing my own horn. See you all on 5711/1/1
David F. Skoll.
I didn't understand either ... until I thought about it. 11-19-1999 is the *last* odd day you'll see in your life time. the next "odd" number is 11-21-1999 ... got an even digit. And then 12-01-1999 ... and then 2001 ... etc.
Though, we'll have scads of even days after that.
Hmm: 7 15 123 55 5 21 Me too!
but the argument could be made that 1 is not an even or an odd number because an odd number must be only have two factors, 1 and itself. 1 is divisible only by itself, therefore, not odd.
.5.
You just described PRIME numbers. Odd numbers are #s not evenly (that is with no remainder)divisible by 2. 0 is even because 0/2 = 0. 1 is not because 1/2 =
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How is 19/11/1999 any different than 3/1/1999 where all the digits are also odd?
They're both odd days so it's no different -- it's just that this is the last such day for a long time.
ROTFL! :)
Wont 29-11-1999 be the last odd day this for the next 1000 years?
Mark Duell
"It's like rain on your wedding day."
or
"It's like a green light when you already went."
or
"The good advice that you just didn't take."
None of these things are ironic. It's all part of the dummuning of America. Wait a minute! "Dummuning" isn't a word! ahh!
Could you please post your definition of an even number? I don't see why zero can't be even.
...I do remember lying in bed in my friend's house in Barrington, RI and groggily coming to the realization it was exactly 12:34pm on May 6, 1978. (12:34, 5/6/78).
As if it mattered to anyone but me!
-David.
19/11/1999 + 11/1/1111 = 30/12/3110 Unless 0 and 2 are suddenly odd, 20/12/3110 is _not_ an odd day.... The next odd day will be 1/1/3111. Which is in 1111 Years, 1 Month, and 13 Days. So :P
You know, it's been a fairly odd day already...
hehe i've lived in an even (444)
an an odd now (1751)
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I guess I don't quite get it. Why won't 11/13/1999 be an odd day?
Mike Eckardt meckardt@yahoo.nospam.com
I believe the point of interest is that this will be the last odd day for over one thousand years... Which is indeed true.
-- The quality of Doubting is rare among men, and a few choice souls are born with it. --Anatole France
How would we never see the next one when the Grand Unified Theory of Physics will be discovered in 2050?
that was like two months ago...
This is the last odd day for a long, long time.
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Perfect day for an oddity like me.
When you talk about years, you assume that the leap years are counted as "1 year", not "1 year plus 1 day".
Perhaps our German friends can start www.geSlashennDotten.de
Right, but those are all days in the past. There have been a lot of all-odd-digit-days over the last century years (thanks to 1999) but after today there won't be any more for a _long_ time!
what happens at 11:59 tonight?
I might have to smoke a cigarette or something to celebrate.
"h3y 1c3 kr34m!! 4r3 j00 3r33+!?" "y3z crackd, 4nD n0w 3y3 w1lL h4xx0r j00r m0u+h! h0h0h!!0"
>Geregorian tricks - no one susppects the spanish
>inqusition.
(In a badly done loud British voice)
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Okay. I'm done now.
Perhaps our German friends can start www.geSlashenn Dotten.de
Do you mean parody?
Parity is RAM.
I realize there's something painfully obvious that I'm missing here, so if someone can point it out I'll gracefully admit my ignorance and move on. So...
Today, 11-19-1999 is an odd day because all the digits are odd. Wouldn't that have made two days ago (11-17-1999) also an odd day? Likewise, a great many days this month (and other odd months)?
While I'm certain I've lost much esteem in the eyes of the slashdot crowd ("Denor? Oh, you mean the one who can't figure out odd days!"), this is going to drive me nuts until I figure it out.
Thanks!
-Denor
Future historians will note that our civilization had already gone far past the point of no return as it slid into oblivion, when people everywhere cared so much about irrelevant crap like this.
This story was just sent to everyone in my company on the internal email list. It finally tipped the balance -- I'm looking for another job. The idiot ratio is too high here.
Hmm ... so the last odd timestamp of our lifetime would be: 19:59:59 11/19/1999
I'll be letting out a little whoop at that time to celebrate.
:-)
WARNING, Could be Troll. I have several good compaq boxen at work, running NT, and in the hands of a good admin, who takes time to read the books and understands a bit "o" logic, can keep an NT boxen up for a while, only when hardware or something wack happens it goes down. But still, I like linux too, Me as a admin and user, I use what ever does the job well, but by not paying $$$ for licenses, I can get mega boxen instead, same money is given, just don't have to pay much for software. But anyhow, NT can be reliable, if put in the right hands. END TROLL.
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How the hell is it ironic?
Interesting, maybe, conincidental, maybe, but not ironic!
...of people getting this WRONG. The millenium starts in 2001. Not 2000. People partying like its 1999 should really be partying like its 2000. Obviously at this point its fairly moot, but we're not ringing in the new millenium this year. (There was NOT a 0 AD, the calendar begins with 1 AD, so each Millenium begins with x001). This wouldn't be so damned frustrating except that the media has been talking about the coming of the new millenium for so long that they've forgotten that its still over a year away. The only reason that 2000 is really only special is because it is the dawn of a new Century.
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It feels wonderful wasting those fsckers."
I currently have no clever signature witicism to add here.
to get drunk to and party likes it's 1999. hehe, also today I got to see a odd thing, something that some people call a BSOD? I thought it was rather funny, so we are going to have and odd BSOD party!
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The subject says it all: How trivial can slashdot get?
10-28-1888?
Yearday is a lot less ambiguous, and makes processing of time series much easier than pesky months and days. Today is yd 323, which is, ironically, odd.
Actually,the next "even" date can't be 2/2/2000 .. it's the absence of a number or a value.
The digit zero is neither even nor odd.
In fact, it's not even fair to call zero a "number" at all
The next "even" date will be 2/2/2222.
So we'll probably all be dead then too.
Not too sure why I know this...
The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away, which we will never see
Walt Disney is scheduled to be taken off ice then. That should coincide with the opening of Disney Solar System on Pluto.
Hates people who have stupid little sigs
Well, if we go by binary numbers, the next "odd" year would be 2047 (11111111111) and the odd month and day would both be 1 (they don't include leading zeroes, neither do I). And I'm sure some of us will live to the year 2047. When will the next odd time be since UNIX epoch?
Wouldn't the last prime timestamp be 23:59:59 19/11/1999?
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Another once in a lifetime moment:
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Oh. You're one of those silly jews, huh? I can't wait to sit shiva for you.
Why are int's not real? 12/6 = 2, so to is a real number right? two is certanly an integer....
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This is at least as interesting as the turn of the millenium that everyone is flipping their lids over!
Okay, 19-11-1999 it is the last odd day in our lifetimes (assuming we all are going to die before 1-1-3111), but the title is misleading because today is hardly the only "Odd Day" this year.
since zero is the absence of value, how can it be odd or even, I haven't ever heard of zero being even...or odd for that matter
Quid rides ignare?
Nose -Common Sense isn't.
One can't forget the one that came a year, a month, a day, eleven seconds, eleven minues and eleven hours later: 12:34:56 7/8/90
My intelligence insults itself.
Does it make this super odd day for me.. since I'm 19 today....
also.. is it odd I feel old at 19?
-Ecc (feelin' like Ecc the Ancient)
MY HIGHSCHOOL GRADUATION DAY - VALEDICTORIAN MOI! These kinda days are fun too. Those non-nerds will have to wait quite some time for 8/9/10, but we'll be smiling inside knowing that all is right with the world on 8/9/01 -juddm
Now, imagine that! He almost "GOT 5 TIMES" on his way to work!!! Absolutely stunning. It truly is an odd day today!
no, the last prime timstamp is a good 10 days away. it is 23:59:59 29/11/1999, although nobody had previously mentioned the last prime timestamp.
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odd odd odd! happy odd day,may the AC live to see the next one!
As a programmer, I test for evenness in this manner, so 0 is even to me.
I've had an odd day. My ex-gf is acting VERY odd. I'll probably lose my house soon and all of my utilities are being shut off today because the company that sends us our bills sent them in his name instead of mine. I'm getting drunk. Happy odd day. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine :-)
Short answer: Even.
Long answer:
You can say that any number divisible by 2 with no remainder is even. That makes zero even. You can also say any number divisible by 2 with a remainder of 1 is odd. That makes zero even.
If you want to talk binary, the Least Significant Bit determines even or oddness, zero being even, one being odd. This makes zero even. Of course, that's just another way of saying the same as above.
If you want to talk properties of even numbers, let's start with multiplication:
Ev * Ev = Ev
Ev * Od = Ev
Od * Od = Od
Zero times anything is zero. So,
0 * Ev = 0
0 * Od = 0
As you can see, zero must be even by this method.
Or how about addition?
Ev + Ev = Ev
Ev + Od = Od
Od + Od = Ev
Zero plus something = something. So,
0 + Ev = Ev
0 + Od = Od
Again, zero must be even.
Pretty much any way you slice it, zero is even.
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Why is 11-11-1999 not an odd day? I feel that I am missing something very fundamental here..
WHO THE HELL TAUGHT ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT 0 IS SOMEHOW A SPECIAL NON-EVEN NON-ODD NUMBER!?!?!?!?!?
0 is just like 2 or 6 or -4. When you divide by 2, you get an integer!
That's all "even" means! It is not very complicated!!!
0 is not special!!!
This isn't number theory, it is simple 2nd grade arithmetic!
*pant* *gasp* *wheeze*
No offence to you personally (offence maybe to the average second grade math teacher tho), but i had to get that off my chest.
Maybe I am missing something here, but what about the 13th 15th 17th 19th of november-99?
Am I missing something here? Why isn't 1.1.1999 an 'odd day'?
did anyone notice that there are two heads of Einstein of differet size on top?
That is odd. Perhas it indicate that size does matter. Xah xah@best.com http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
Isn't 9-9-1999
an odd day too?
-- Man was created on the seventh day when god was tired. --
Simple:
Wi-to-kay = 3 sylables
yir-to-thow-sand = 4 sylables
Y2K = 3 chars
Year 2000 = 9 chars
Y2K means a computer bug
Year 2000 means a year or a computer bug or a host of other things
This is an odd date only for the short-sighted people who are not using Y10K ISO compliant dates. Today's date is 01999-11-19, and since zero is not an odd number it will be a long time (forever) before we see a truly odd day.
I almost got 5 times on my way to work, I thought it was just a strange morning. Now I know better!
Happy Odd Day
ah, BUT -
if you write the date as DD-MM-YYYY (which i hold makes a lot more sense than MM/DD/YYYY anyway) and strip that down to DDMMYYYY, i.e. 19111999, then you *do* get a prime number!
unfortunately YYYY-MM-DD doesn't work...
What about November 19th, 1997? Wouldn't that be 11-19-1997? Isn't that odd? Am I on crack, or isn't every other day of every other month of every other year an odd day? I must have missed something.
- Freehold, who was dropped on his head as a child
the next odd day is 1-1-00
that's what all the computers are going to say, right before they erase the financial record and send us back to the stone age.
(:
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What happens when you outlaw guns
when will you shrivle up and die, you stupid, media whore?
> 0 is Nothing. From Nothing, comes Nothing; Nothing is opaque.
Yeah, I agree with you. And hey, while we're at it, it couldn't be an integer either! Zero means nothing. An integer is something. How could nothing be something? Zero is not an integer.
Just an obeservation. 1, and 9 both perfect squares. WOW odd and all perfect squares, too bad there in no major event to coincide with today to make it easy on future high school history students.
"There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics and religion, by convincing others we convince ourselves" -Junius
ummm... would that make 11-13-1999 odd as well? and maybe 11-15-1999, 17, 19, 21.....
Well, technically... Real numbers are equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences with the same limit. Integers are just, well, integers. So if he wanted to be pedantic, he might could make a case ;)
How odd that it is not odd!
I almost got hit 5 times on my way to work, I thought it was just a strange morning. Now I know better!
Happy Odd Day
How many even days in the 2000-2888 period?
5 * 5 * 5 * 4 * 9 = 4500
How many odd days in the 1111-1999 period?
5 * 5 * 5 * (6 * 11 - 2) = 8000
This assumes a regular calendar (if I recall,
somebody dropped about ten days sometime in
the sixteenth century).
This, by my reconing is one of many "odd days" this year (five of the last ten alone). Our first even day may be memorable- Feb 2 2000 as it is our first- but this topic is best left for the astrologers! --If you have nothing to say, say nothing...
...I'll just shut up now shall I?-- P.S. First Post! (I think)
I don't suffer from insanity- I enjoy it immensly!
% man cron | grep "day of the week"
day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
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If you consider the leading zeros then it puts more emphasis on the month of november, the only completely odd month. In this fashion, there are only five completely odd days in an "odd" year: 11-11-xxxx, 11-13-xxxx, 11-15-xxxx, 11-17-xxxx, and 11-19-xxxx. (where xxxx is 4 odd numbers)
Makes those five days seem a little more special, huh?
Sigh!
Ok, in small words. Parity is *NOT* RAM. Parity is a way of examining numbers to see if they are valid. Some RAM modules use parity to tell if the answer that they come up with is right.
Now for the joke. Parity works by examining each bit to see if it's odd or even. OK. Get it now?
Seeing as we're going by digits, surely all those 9's means it's full of non-prime nos?
Then I must be a odd person. I was born on 11-19-1957! All odd digits.
Sniff - I was born on a odd and this is the last one of my life.
Could we all start to use the ISO date format... It would make life just that much easier! Thanks. See here for more about ISO 8601, which BTW is also covered in ANSI X3.30-1985(R1991).
github.com/chrispollitt
November 19 is also that last day of school for the year 12ers in Qld, Australia.
Have Phun at schoolies week guys and don't set anything on fire!
l8rs
Ducatti
(yeah, I know.....nothing to do with the topic)
What's an "odd day"? Why are 13-11-1999, 7-11-1999, etc not odd days?
For me, odd is a number x where ( x modulo 2 ) not equal 0.
And a digit is a number between 0 and 9.
So I don't get it...
That date notation is used most commonly in the US and in the UK (MM-DD-YYYY), and it is dangerous because it is often indistinguishable from DD MM YYYY. (ex. 05-04-1999) The international standard date notation is YYYY-MM-DD.
I believe most people use the notation dd. mm. yyyy, or with the month name.
No sig. Go away.
What is so special about an odd day ?
what is so special about the number 13 ?
What is so special about the number 2000 ?
What is so special about the number 356/5 ?
Well they are all just a part of the whole universe of numbers, but still they are not special. They are just combined cifers. If somebody wants to live by numbers so be it, but I would rather live by being alive.
Monchi
What about 21-11-1999, two days from now? All of those digits are odd as well. So, what's the big deal!?!
I can't believe someone moderated that to insightful after all those comments about it up there!
Since we've only had a possibility of odd days for the last 1000+ years, and will only have even days for the next 1000+ years, couldn't we be on the cusp of leaving an "odd millenium" and entering an "even millenium"?
http://www.treasure-troves.com/ math/EvenNumber.html is a good math dictionary and agrees that zero is even.
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Millenium? I thought that started on 2001.
I thought people partied this year because of the Y2K BUG! [Yay! A break from all these computers]
;-)
Twit - by even he means not odd. 2/2/2000 is the next day with no odd digits in the date.
See you on 1-1-3111, mwahahahaHaHAHAHA......
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." -Flaubert
Zero is neither even nor odd. Zero is zero.
I only see 36 even dates (nine days in four
months) per even year (4464 from 2001-3000).
Oh, okay. Har Har! Too damn late in the week for me, I guess.
$ factor 2029
2029: 2029
$
That's pretty weird.....
jeff_C
i quit my job on nov 19th 1999 =)
ZERO IS EVEN!!! GO ASK ANY PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER!!!
0/2 = 0, 0 is an integer, therefore 0 is even!
ZERO IS A NUMBER!!! WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU THAT ZERO ISNT A NUMBER?
Zero is the number before 1 and after -1. It is the NUMBER that is the additive identity. It is the NUMBER that when multiplied by another number makes itself. It is the NUMBER that when raised to any power other than itself, equals itself. It is the NUMBER that when any other number is raised to its power, equals 1. It is the NUMBER whose angle signifies the positive x direction. It is the NUMBER that is arbitrarily chosen to be the value of potential energy at infinity for a point charge, and works EXACTLY the same as if you picked any other number!
Please do not run around slashdot disscusions talking about things you do not understand, like basic math.
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I'm betting the easiest way for all of us to live to see the next odd day will be digitally. Call me a geek, but with changes and advances in both cybernetics and computing power (and the structure of computing), we'll be able to become cybernetic, then finnaly get rid of the wetware all together. Ray Kurzweil's "The Age Of Spiritual Machines" is a great book with great explainations.
The Good Reverend
I guess your reasoning is that as the OS version number is ODD (3.51) it is therefor unstable. This would coincide with the Linux kernel numbering system in that kernels with an odd digit in the tenths place are developmental kernels. Perhaps MS has been foloowing the same strategy and never intended NT 4.51 to be stable?
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Today, according to the Demotivators calender, is "Have a Bad Day Day" as well.
If you write the date in British format (as most countries do), 19/11/1999, then 19111999 is prime as well!
Its karma, Kramer.
Look at it from a real number standpoint. The number is 1999 not 1-9-9-9.. Taking it apart is senseless -- though I guess it give us something to yap about on an otherwise normal Friday :P
to the rest of the goddamn world, that says the 11th day of the 13th month (and there isnt a 13th month, duh)
look outside your own lame country for a change. what with these stories on /. about al gore, that dont mean shit to the other 95% of the world, this place is far to americanised already.
funny, windows tells me that the next odd day is only eleven years away, on 1-1-1911
Somebody get our flag back!
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5 Mei
1 Mai
1st of May
In all the european languages I know, the date is pronounced before the month, so there's a certain logic to that notation too. This includes UK English.
The original poster made a joke, about a non existant date being odd too, but none of the American readers got it, because in American English that was an existing date last week. Then the entire population of the USA started pointing out how stupid the original poster was for not knowing that, which was annoying enough to respond to with a flame.
I hope you understand it now, good night.
http://forum.swa rthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/goldberg.3.31.97.html
I have to say this is "an" answer and not "the" answer, as Dr. Math turns out not be a doctor, nor one specific person ("he" is instead math students at Swarthmore College). So, the answer lacks a sense of overwhelming credibility that an actual doctor of mathematics would have had....
-adam a
ps. crappy slashdot user code keeps me "anonymous"
You could always think of weekends as being like bookends: one at each end. This of course uses "end" in the delimiter sense of the word -- rather than the temporal sense that one might assume when talking about time.
begin 644
31-11-1113 then 10-02-2001
are there any in between?
it's too late, i can't think of anymore
The funniest thing about this that I've seen in several places now is that the people who forward it on completely ignore the fact that 2-2-2000 is *not* the next even day. 2-2-2222 is. Why?
0 is not even, odd, positive or negative. Therefore all the digits in 2-2-2000 are not even, only half of them are.
-- Grey d'Miyu, not just another pretty color.
I can't beleive I'm even on my computer. I was almost sure that the odd day computer bug would strike, power would be out and looters would be taking over my house!
I was amazed when I survived the 9-9-99 bug, but and after surviving this I'm not scared of the Y2K bug anymore. I've lived through the worst of 'em....
-Zach
"I told you a million times not to exaggerate!"
> Do you mean parody?
No, I meant paroddy.
The word is "dumbening", and it was coined by Lisa Simpson. An absolutely cromulent word, I might add.
begin 644
millennium is spelt with two "n"s. Don't let popular media fool you. Do, however, snicker at all the "millenium" sales and whatnot being advertised these days.
Geregorian tricks - no one susppects the spanish inqusition.
Really nothing any more or less specail than 1-1-2000, just how the numbers lineup in a base ten number system on the gregorian calander, based (roughly) on the orbits of this planet and it's satallite, nad when a significant man was born (though his accomplishments may be subject to debate, he had a great effect on our culture).
Spyder
Depending on how you choose to format your dates, (I prefer 1999.11.19 with all digits filled) you could contest that the next odd day will be 3111.11.11 instead of 3111.01.01. But that's quibbling over something that I'll probably not really care about when the time rolls around.
Given that this is year11 according to the Japanese calendar..last wee at 11 minutes past 11 it was 11:11 11/11/11
I was about to post the very same thing. I think it's awfully pessimistic of [whoever the poster was] to assume that we'll all be dead before the human species achieves immortality; Slashdot being an essentially technological community, I would have assumed that it was commonly understood by its members that radically new technology usually appears spontaneously (apparently out of thin air) and much sooner than you'd expect it to. (Heavier-than-air flight, anyone?) Therefore, I not only don't rule out the possibility of becoming immortal "by not dying", but expect to actively help make it happen.
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NT3.51 workstations giving me fits, power goes out at the office, the UPS on the hub/switch weiring closet dies, and a remote sales office connectivity blows up... HAPPY ODD DAY alright..... (Can I erase NT off of every hard drive so we wont have stupid failures anymore?)
...didn't anyone else learn that zero is neither odd nor even?
This is my wedding anniversary. Also the birthday of an AC with whom I had a painful affair.
Hell of a day, that's for sure.
Happy 27th, J.
Thats a good way to miss a fucking huge party. Get in the spirit, raise a glass, and feel good about living now.
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doh. Thank God I did this blunder as Anonymous Coward.
using hex we just get 1/1/7d1 as the next odd day, and by then we should have switched completely to the hexadecimal numbering system anyway...
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Indeed. 1999-11-13 is the ISO (International Standards Organization) date format for the day in question, and is the only way it should be written for international use. Writing it 13/11/1999 is not being international, it's being every bit as local as Americans writing 11/13/1999. If you aren't yourself going to follow the ISO standard, you don't have much cause to complain when others don't either.
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The last Odd moment of this odd day will take place at 7:59:59 PM (19:59:59). The next odd moment will be at 11:11:11 on 11/11, 3111. So, how many of you odd people will I see then?
(Of course, I'll have transplanted my neural patterns into pure energy by then, so I won't actually SEE you.)
If 11-19-99 is an odd day, what about 1-9-99? even if you write it as 9-1-1999, it's still odd, is it not?
In Japan the years go by the number of years the emperor has been in power, i.e. its is now the 11th year of Heisei, So some countries still get odd days. My useless 2 yen
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there are 277 leap years in this period of time. This is almost a whole year's worth of extra days. Are those factored into your equasion?
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Why is this article under "It's Funny."?
Is it supposed to be a parity?
The large number of posts asking "why wasn't 11/13/99 an odd day?" and "what about 11/21/1999?" (etc etc) really says something about the reading comprehension of Slashdotters! It's a bit incredible to me: if you can't figure out something "factual" which is precisely defined mathematically in the source article, why should I trust your opinions on blurry issues like the Microsoft case? Can we have a moderation (-1, Quite Simply Has No Clue) so we can identify such trends among posters?
Sorry for the "troll".
Date formats like MM-DD-YYYY and DD-MM-YYYY are ambiguous and confusing, especially for the majority of any calendar year. I really wish people would start using International Standard Date and Time Notation, which is YYYY-MM-DD (see ISO 8601). They're much less confusing, can't mean something different in another notational system, and put units from largest to smallest. Adding in the time continues the trend with YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss.
Please, please, please? With sugar on top?
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I assume you claim that "13/11/1999" is good because it has the size of units in order. However, if you want that, then "1999/11/13" is actually a better representation, because in all other normal numerical methods, the larger units are to the left. However, if you wanted to represent it as "31/11/9991", then I would agree that you are at least being consistent.
On the other hand, if you want the date to be an abbreviation, then it makes sense to have the date order in the same way as the way that people normally state the date. In English, the normal method of stating the date is "November 13th, 1999", which would translate to an abbreviated "11/13/1999", which is indeed the way that Americans use. To be consistent, another abbreviation that is commonly used is "Nov. 13, 1999".
In other words, if you don't like the way Americans write the date, there is a reason that it is done that way, and at least it is consistent, as opposed to the bastardized "Larger Units to the Right" method that you seem to be proposing.
Ok, what about 11/21/99? 11/23/99? Obviously you can't have an odd day in December or the year 2000, but what stops 11/19/2001 from being an odd day?
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Sigh.
Today is Friday 19 November 1999.
There are 11 days left in November.
Then there is December.
Then the years 2000 - 3110 inclusive make up
1111 years.
At the end of that interval is the first moment
of 1/1/3111.
So there is an interval of 11 days, 1 month
and 1111 years between now and 1/1/3111.
Get it yet?
While I also dig glassdog, whose mailing list I got the message from, I'm not sure the story is right. Would not 11/13/1999 ALSO be an odd day? 11/15/1999? 11/17/1999, and 11/19/1999? No, I think the significance, if you can even call it that, is some pattern more complex, that the day has equal numbers of odd digits in order, when expressed in mmddyy form (111999) or something like that.
I'm not going to do the math or play find the pattern, but when a topic such as this not only qualifies as 'News for Nerds' but also gets 300+ posts (to date), I begin to question anyone's premise for slapping ANY kind of 'News for Nerds' qualification criteria on Katz, the unfortunate suicide of Mary Kay Bergman, or any other topic that might be distant from Linux, gaming, standards committees, or any other more "pure" Slashdot topic.
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Wouldn't 17/11/1999 also be an odd day? or 31/1/1999?
How is 19/11/1999 any different than 3/1/1999 where all the digits are also odd?
That was the day I was born (an odd occurance that).. :-) Perhaps not as odd as the appearance of the Devon Rex cat, though.
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is the one day to be in. you can truthfully lie on that day and not have to worry about consequences. why isn't there a national "Opposite Day"?
well so was 11-17-1999
But, there was no year 1 on the calender ether, or 2 for that matter. Infact we didn't start using the xian calender untill ether the 400's or the 1400s (I'm not exactly sure). there's no reason why you cant' say that the year that was 1 BC was the first year, Jesus wasn't born in 1AD anyway!
People don't give a fuck about the year 2001, they care about 2000.
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I willing to bet I'll make it to the next odd day. :))
(hey, if I don't, you'll have a hard time collecting the bet
Wrong again!
Damnit!
Think before posting... 1999 + 1111 = 3110
That 0 looks pretty even!
Sure, we'll have no more Odd Days after today, but we've had so many of them over the course of our lives, I say, so what? I've had my fill. Now the first Even Day in over 1000 years! now that's cool! I bet no-one remembers the last time we had one of those. But I tell you, I feel sorry for our Great Grandchildren born 1 January 2100. They may never experience either an Even or an Odd Day. So sad.
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OTOH, in the Coptic Calendar, they won't have another Even Day until 15 October 2283, but there will be another Odd Day on 11 September 2000.
If you are Ethiopic however, you need to wait only until 13 October 2007 for your next Even Day, the next Odd Day being the same as in the Coptic Calendar.
Alas, though if you follow the Islamic Calendar, the next Even Day will not be until 8 February 2562, though there should be a new Odd Day as soon as 1 August 2087.
Persians have it even worse. The next Even Day for them won't be until 22 April 2621, though 20 March 2000 will be another Odd Day for you.
The Bah'a'i will have their next Even Day 10 April 2225, but 21 March 2000 is also an Odd Day.
For those of us following along on the Hebrew Calendar, our next Odd Day will be 5 April 2011, but we will have to wait until 24 April 2240 for our next Even Day.
Ni Hao, because if you are Chinese and follow the cyclical system of 60 years, then Even and Odd days are quite common for any lifetime. Take for instance the next Odd Cycle Day, which will be Chinese New Year next year, 5 February 2000; the next Even Cycle Day will be 24 February 2001. But, if you consider the 60 year cycle has repeated 78 times since the Chinese calendar was established, then the next time the cycle count will be Even is 17 March 2105, and the next time it will be Odd is Chinese New Year 2044, on 30 January. Every other Chinese New Year is an Odd Day, actually.
[You're probably getting pretty sick of this at this point but I shall continue...
If you are Hindu, your Even and Odd days depend on whether you're using the Old or New Lunar or Solar Calendars. In the modern Lunar Calendar, 27 November 1999 will be an Even Day, but the next Odd Day will not be until 30 April 3054. However in the Old Lunar Calendar, the next Even Day will not be until 3 April 2899, but the next Odd Day will be 14 April 2010. For the Solar Calendar, the next Modern Even Day will be 17 May 2078, but the next Modern Odd Day will occur as soon as 14 April 2009. For the Old Solar Calendar, things are just as bleak as for the Old Lunar One: we will have to wait until 1 June 2899 for another Even Day, but the next Old Odd Day will be 16 April 2010.
Mes amis, je continue en français à célébrer la Révolution. Puis, dans le calendrier de la Révolution, je raconte que nous avons ensuite un Jour Pair le 2nd janvier 2000, mais dois attendre jusqu' à le 23e septembre 2102 à notre Jour Impair prochain. Mais si nous regardons le Calendrier Révolutionnaire Moderne, alors le 1er janvier 2000 sera le Jour Pair suivant, et le 22nd septembre 2102 sera Impair.
[Please consult Babelfish Liberally and for more information about the French Revolution, I suggest consulting the most respected historical source at the next NoVaDWVS meeting, 22 November 1999... <-- Plug.]
Anyway, where would a list of Calendar Dates be without our good friends, the Mayans. Yes, thanks to Reingold and Dershowitz who provided the resources for all this information, I can tell you that the next Long Count Odd Day by one calculation of the Mayan Epoch will be 23 September 2033, and the next Even Day won't be until 13 October 4772!! That's going to be a long wait, but take solice, because if you only regard the Haab and Tzolkin Calendars, then you get many Even and Odd days each year. For instance, then next Haab Even Day will be 27 April 2000, and the next Odd Day will be 3 December 1999. The next Tzolkin Even Day will be Tomorrow, because today is an Odd Day.
Of course, if you missed today's Odd Day, not only is Tomorrow another Odd Day but might I recommend getting Rustic and celebrating it on 2 December 1999, when it occurs its last time for 1000 years in the Old Julian Calendar, or wait until 15 February 2000 for the next Julan Even Day. Of course, if you're an Astronomer, then you're only concerned about the Julian Day Number. Fortunately, the next Julian Even Day Number will be 24 February 2023, but the next Odd Julian Day Number won't be until 31 October 3805!
But none of this is ISO Standard, so therefore, I suggest that the next ISO Even Day will be Tuesday 4 January 2000, and the next ISO Odd Day will be Monday 20 December 1999. Alas, the last one for the next 1000 years will none the less be 26 December 1999.
Of course, since most of us are programmers, let me suggest that ANSI C dictates the next Even Moment will be 10 January 2004 at 13:37:04 GMT in Hexidecimal and 4 May 2000 at 06:56:33 GMT will be our next Odd Moment. Finally, this one is for those suckers that still use the OS of a certain company that may be about to be split in half: The next OLE Even Day will be 6 July 2009 at midnight GMT and the next Odd Day will be 8 August 2001 at 2:40:00 GMT.
And now you know the rest of the story...
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Oh well.
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This was the MOST idiotic thing I've ever heard, and the fact that people care comes in a close second.
Wait.. I appologize.. Im so wrong! Your answer is correct.. I didnt think.
The last odd timestamp will be:
;-)
19:59:59 19-11-1999
I am 2h, 59m, 9s away from that
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- 1805
- 5423
- 2945
- etc...
Not one single address I can remember has been even.That explains it pretty well.
Try these dates, 1-11-1999, 3-11-1999, 3-3-1997
Any one see a pattern here or is it just me.
Tokyo Joe
I'm reading this late saturday (too much Pharaoh), but friday was my birthday. I turned 23, on the only odd day in our generation. visions of illuminati dance through my head.
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We can witness both an all odd day and an all even day (assuming the world does not blow up at the end of the year! =)
"The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away. The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 28-8-888."
I just got this in my mailbox like 10 minutes ago from my coworker...and it shows up on slashdot...
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
I have the pleasure of having the birthday of 7/7/77. Quite odd.
-TheScreamI think their year just turned to 5760, so in 11 years it will be 5771.
George
That's right. The new millenium does begin in 2001, not 2000. But did you know that at the turn of the last century, people celebrated in both 1900 and 1901? I would expect the same this time around. After all, that's what's it's all about right? Partying? So just say we party on 1/1/2000 to celebrate the last year of the old millenium that happens to have a digitary(?) relationship to the next millenium, while we celebrate on 1/1/2001 to celebrate the true new millenium.
Or just do whatever you feel like.
11 == 1 + 1 = all odd
19 == 1 + 9 = all odd
1999 = 1+9+9+9 = all odd
Anything w/ an even number in it doesn't count... which means any date from 1-1-2000 to 12-31-3110 can't be, because They all contain either a 2 or 0 in them (the years).
Hope this helps all the 'forest for the trees' comments like my first one.
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Mostly odd.
Considering it is also PRIME day, couldn't ODD day be considered in
the set of PRIME days(1). Thus not making it a unique ODD day.(5)
Definition of odd from M-W dictionary
1 a : being without a corresponding mate b (1) : left over after others are paired or grouped (2) : separated from a set or series
5 : having an out-of-the-way location
who cares anyhow. ... tools... (siglim 120 chars)" Like cars... to the office no more no less.
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On the last Odd Day for the next 1000+ years, I get the feeling I can try abusing the office NT machine to see if it doesn't crash.
Of course if/when it does, I'll start planning for 2/2/2000 as my "Get Even" day.
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If I see this damn thing one more time in email or otherwise I'm going to scream.
well you could argue that 1-1-3111 could be expressed as 01-01-3111 or that you could express 1-1-2011 as 1-1-11 so we might see another odd day!
Speaking of today's significance with primes, here's another interesting tidbit ...
If my math is correct, and we take the fact presented in several other posts here that 1 is not mathematically prime, then this is also the last date to not have any prime digits until 4000-01-01.
Every day for the rest of this month will have a 2 or 3 in it. Every day in December will have the 2 from the month, and throughout the third and fourth milleniums, the years will all have 2's and 3's.
Right?
The last time I got laid was 9-11-97!
Good one! But like I said, it was just a random sampling to demonstrate the point. And despite the objection in this same heirarchy by osu-neko, even if it's not technically accurate (I have no idea whether he pulled this figure out of his navel, or if it's right on), the number is still one that sticks anytime I see that particular cart ... not that I'm obsessed with grovery carts, they just make a handy example of how we assign arbitrary connections. Just how brains work, I say.
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