You (and OPB) set me thinking about 2/22/22 Today OPB has talked about today being a palindrome. Well it is, but that's not why it's so significant. As you pointed out, it's the long series of 2's.
But with OPB mentioning palindrome I realized there are 9 consecutive dates in 22 that are palindromes, a very rare situation. (2/20/22 thru 2/28/22) at least for us folks who use the m/d/y format for dates. I was motivated to check with my date palindrome expert. Dr. Aziz Inan at Univ of Portland (and he's a Electrical engineer) Here is what he had to say about 2022 -- although this link talks about dates in the d/m/y format. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/palindrome-dates-in-2022-february-wins (with some farmers almanac commercials thrown in). He has an impressive list of date palindrome articles https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html steve Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I'm running this script in an xterm: while true; do date -u; sleep 10 ; done Tuesday Feb 22 afternoon, it may emit: .. Tue Feb 22 22:22:12 UTC 2022 Tue Feb 22 22:22:22 UTC 2022 Tue Feb 22 22:22:32 UTC 2022 .. Them's a lotta 2s, and there won't be more 2s for 200 years. And that will be a Friday, not a twos day. Or not, the stuff besides the "sleep 10" will take a few milliseconds as well. Anyway, if someone is feeling ambitious, they can write a better script with a more accurate clock mechanism. Perhaps start up at 22:21 UTC, highlight 22:22 UTC, finish at 22:23 UTC, then screenprint the xterm window. Please send code! Or if you don't get the script debugged in time, 22:22 PDT. But that isn't cricket, is it? More like basketball. Keith
