Interesting day, today. There hasn’t been one like it for nearly 26 years, since June 1987. In a similar vein, about three weeks from now there will be a day that we haven’t seen the like of for over fourteen years.
Okay, I’ll bite. How so?
I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
452013 im guessing
5/4/13?
4/5/13?
2013/4/5?
5/4/2013?
Nope. No matter how I slice it, I don’t see the noteworthiness.
No digits repeat?
And it has all the digits from 0 to 5. Although I’m not sure how that ties in with June 5, 1987 which has the digits from 5-9 with an extra 1.
On this day, 14 k of g were placed in a f p d.
Correct. 6/30/1987 (or 30/6/1987, it makes no difference) was the last such date.
Using the mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy format, none of us will be around to see the next one.
How is today, 4/8/2013, any different then?
Did you learn this on Facebook? From the same person who told us last July would be the last month in a gazillion years with five Fridays?
I don’t get it:
4/5/2013 - doesn’t repeat any digits, OK.
Doesn’t today - 4/8/2013 have the same feature?
Sure. No-repeat days will be common through the end of the 2010’s (after which there won’t be any for another decade, due to the 2 2); but there weren’t any in 1988, 1989, the 1990s, the 2000s, 2010, 2011, or 2012 just due to the digits in the year. 4/5/2013 is the first day in 2013 that doesn’t have a 1, 2, 3, or repeated 4 in it.
OK, but then what does:
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Using the mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy format, none of us will be around to see the next one.
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mean?
Oh! I just got his point, I think. If you count the 0’s in 04/05/2013 then we won’t see a no-repeater in a very long time. Of course in that form 06/30/1987 doesn’t count either.
But I guess 06/25/1987 does, right?
And a bazillion others.
06/25/1987 was the last one. The next one is a long time from now.
09/23/1987
For example.
I learnt it from my own calculations, prompted by a question in the excellent TV show “Only Connect”. It’s a mathematical curiosity, which I thought would make an interesting puzzle. So I posted it in the forum where puzzles go. Sorry if it offended you.
That has two "9"s in it. We’re down to bazillion minus one.