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!

Comments

I don't know about you...

[vlax]

...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.

Re:I don't know about you...

[cpuffer_hammer]

I plan to live for ever or die trying.

(Blake-7)

Re:This is most Odd. :)

[kip3f]

This is easier:
bash$ factor 1999
1999: 1999
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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

remember when?

[cetan]

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.

Re:This is most Odd. :)

[EricWright]

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

1111 years 1 month 11 days ...

[jwjr]

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.

woohoo!!

[Pika]

I was looking for a reason to get totally trashed tonight!! looks like I found it!

Correction

[mochaone]

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.

Re:Now that's odd...

[tim_m]

> I guess I don't quite get it. Why won't 11/13/1999 be an odd day?

It was. But that was 6 days ago. Today is the last one until 1-1-3111.

Now, if there were a November 31st, that would count too, but, alas, there is not. So Happy Odd Day everybody!

This is most Odd. :)

[jd]

On this Odd day, here is some Odd trivia for you:

• 11 and 19 are both primes, as well as odd numbers. If 1999 is also prime, this will make this Prime Day, as well.
• The Odd Prime: 2. It is the only even prime, making it most odd. :) (From the 'fortune cookie' program)
• The total number of Odd numbers is equal to the total number of integers.
• The integers are neither Real, or Imaginary, which makes them very Odd indeed!

Re:This is most Odd. :)

[ajs]

1999 does appear to be prime, given:

perl -le 'for($i=int(sqrt(1999));$i>1;$i--) {print $i if int(1999/$i) == 1999/$i}'

prints nothing, thus 1999 has no factors in the range of 2..int(sqrt(1999))

Re:This is most Odd. :)

[Col. Klink (retired)]

> The integers are neither Real [...]

Yes they are. All Real numbers are not Integers, but all Integers are Real.

19111999 is prime as well

[gargle]

If you write the date in British format (as most countries do), 19/11/1999, then 19111999 is prime as well!

Nevertheless, a question

[lahosken]

Why is this article under "It's Funny."?
Is it supposed to be a parity?

Re:all the digits are prefect squares too.

[copito]

Give me a minute....
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