Today’s very special date
Today is the tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the new millennium. The attraction of 10.10.10 has led many couples to choose this day for their wedding.
A date like 10.10.10 only happens 12 times every 1,000 years. There will be a similar day in 2011 and in 2012 but the one after that won’t happen until 3001.
October 10th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
The year is the last two digits of the full 4-digit year, so these dates happen 12 times every 100 years. The first one in the next century will be 01/01/01.
October 10th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Ooops – you’re quite right, of course, Nick.
This is still means that, after 12.12.12, you and I are unlikely to experience another such symmetrical date.
October 11th, 2010 at 9:21 am
On top of the auspicious repetition, Roger, I saw in one report that Stephen Fry had tweeted that, in binary code, 101010 = 42 – which is, of course, the answer to life, the universe and everything…
October 11th, 2010 at 9:38 am
What are the odds?!?
October 12th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Binary reminds me of Bender the robot in Futurama who wakes from a nightmare, hugs his friend and exclaims ‘I dreamt there was a 2’.
October 12th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
A special day for me, born 10-10-1950, it was my 60 th birtday last sunday. Visitors and telephone calls at 10.10 and also that day a big price in de Staatsloterij € 10. Is n’t that a lucky day?