# Fun with numerology this year
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501 "2011-01-21T22:03:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/1 "2011-01-21T22:03:55Z")
This year we will experience four unusual dates… 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11
Take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be on your birthday this year and it WILL EQUAL TO 111
All for 1 and 1 for all.
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### Author:  [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/2 "2011-01-21T22:22:03Z")
Well, not if you were born in 2000 or later, or 1899 or earlier…
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### Author:  [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/3 "2011-01-21T22:27:04Z")
> [@Intelligently\_Designed](#):
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> Well, not if you were born in 2000 or later, or 1899 or earlier…
ok so those of us born this century will have to add 100 to get to 111 or just settle for 2 1’s. those poor souls.
1 is the loneliest number.
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/4 "2011-01-21T23:16:14Z")
> [@deb2world](#):
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> This year we will experience four unusual dates… 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, 11/11/11
Those four dates all happened 2000 years ago. Or would have, if they had been using the Julian calendar back then.
Just because we sometimes abbreviate 1 January 2011 as 1/1/11 doesn’t mean the date actually _is_ 1/1/11.
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### Author:  [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/5 "2011-01-22T00:53:54Z")
Mine goes to 12.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/6 "2011-01-22T01:09:20Z")
Don’t forget 20-11-2011 (great for you US types; doesn’t work so well for the rest of us).
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:4, topic:568501”]
Just because we sometimes abbreviate 1 January 2011 as 1/1/11 doesn’t mean the date actually _is_ 1/1/11.
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You’d think that for things that need clarity, we would have learned our lesson and gone to using four-digit year numbers exclusively. But I still get receipts and things that have dates like 01/07/11. Now, I can sort that one out, because it’s still January 2011, so I know that the 07 is the day of the month. But if I picked it up in December, how would I be certain that it wasn’t from the first of July? Or even an old one from the 11th of July 2001?
Maybe the Y2K bug _should_ have bit us a little harder.
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### Author:  [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/7 "2011-01-23T08:33:42Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Don’t forget 20-11-2011 (great for you US types; doesn’t work so well for the rest of us).
I think you may have gotten mixed up. 20-11-2011 is not a date that commonly appears around here.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-numerology-this-year/568501/8 "2011-01-23T18:22:42Z")
2011 is not only prime; it is also the sum of 11 consecutive primes:
2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211