The first 12 years of the millenium are interesting in that each month has
its turn in subsequent years
01/01/01
02/02/02
03/03/03
04/04/04
05/05/05
06/06/06
07/07/07
08/08/08
09/09/09
10/10/10
11/11/11
12/12/12
dialllist
Many years ago (presumably in 1967, as we shall see..), as a schoolboy, I
seem to remember hearing on the BBC 'Today' breakfast programme, about
so-called 'straight-dates'. These are:
1/2/34
2/3/45
3/4/56
4/5/67
5/6/78
6/7/89
7/8/90
at which point the series seems to end unles we go to 8/9/01
20/02/2002
2002/20/02
Alexei Pace
malta
In a message dated 1/7/2002 5:59:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is also worth recording that many of us also experienced the year 1961,
which reads the same when viewed normally or upside down; an inverted
palindrome, perhaps? There have only been three other
Furthermore, at two minutes past 8pm on 20th February it will be
2002.20/02/2002. I believe this does not hold in the US, where they
write the date differently. Spoilsports!
Frank 55N 1W
--
Frank Evans
Sorry to have started on off topic hare running ... but having started :-
19.11.1999 was unusual in that every digit in the date was odd. This will
not happen again for 1112 years, not until 1.1.3111 in fact.
The last all even day was 2.2.2000, the first one since 28.8.888, a gap of
(surprise)
Bill Gooesman wrote
Well, if you write your 2's in the same shape that they are formed in an
older LCD display calculator, then 2002 reads the same upside down as right
side up. So there.
and we in the UK have the village of CHIDEOCK with a horizontal line of
symmetry.
Tony M.
-koeln.de
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)
Allow me to add that on 20th february, the whole date will be
palindromic...
20/02/2002
2002/20/02
Alexei Pace
malta
The Shaws wrote:
Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor):
Back and Forth
SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a
palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur
normally only once in 110 years (as in
The Shaws wrote:
Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor):
Back and Forth
SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a
palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur
normally only once in 110 years (as in
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