Last night, as I was writing in my journal, I realized something special about the date (8\/17\/18). It’s a palindrome (81718). My next thought was that palindromic dates must occur all the time, so no big deal.<\/p>\n
But, after thinking about it for a bit, I came to the conclusion that palindromic dates must be fairly rare. Even if you’re willing to use different date formats (say, using two or four digits for the year, and\/or putting a zero in front of a single-digit month or day), there aren’t very many palindromic dates in the average year. For example, I could think of only one for 1996 (6\/9\/96).<\/p>\n
This year, by contrast, has several palindrome days (8\/1\/18, plus all the dates from 8\/10\/18 through 8\/19\/18), and one of them is even a palindrome twice over (8\/10\/18 and 8\/10\/2018).\u00a0 So enjoy today and tomorrow, the last palindrome days for the year. And don’t forget to celebrate next year in September, when we will get another nice stretch of them.<\/p>\n
P.S. I am willing to use different formats for the date if it will produce interesting numbers, so I’m also looking forward to 02\/02\/2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night, as I was writing in my journal, I realized something special about the date (8\/17\/18). It’s a palindrome (81718). My next thought was that palindromic dates must occur all the time, so no big deal. But, after thinking … Continue reading