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1. Tony Bannard-Smith on Apr 5th, 2006 at 12:16 pm

   Dear Fellow Churchillian Mark,

   I like the number sequence for today - 01 02 03 etc. Very original and rare.

   Doesn’t quite work this side of the pond though, where we are more used to DD/MM/YY sequence at the end!

   Comment edited to delete request for phone number and transfer of funds. - JoAnne

   Best wishes
   Tony
   Development Director
   Churchill College
   Cambridge

2. Philip on Apr 5th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

   Local (San Diego) news programs have been running this story, claiming that 01/02/03/04/05/06 is a one-time-only event. They’re saying it’ll never happen again. Ever.

   Of course, it happens every century.

3. Rien on Apr 5th, 2006 at 1:03 pm

   But then again, if you follow the ISO format for dates this already happened on May 6th, 2004

4. Lubos Motl on Apr 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pm

   In Europe, it will happen again next month, on May 4th (4.5.6).

   In three years, we will also have 12:34:56, 7/8/9. A precise combination of time and date occurs once per history, but the number of equally interesting combinations of time and date occur extremely often.

5. Alun Clewe on Apr 5th, 2006 at 7:11 pm

   Dagnabbit. As unimportant as I realize it actually is, I usually like to do something about occasions like this, but it didn’t even occur to me that this one was coming. Oh, well. At least I have the European version to look forward to next month, I guess.

   As for 12:34:56 7/8/9…it would be better if it was 12:34:56 7/8/90. But we’ve got another nine decades and change before we get that one again…

6. Lubos Motl on Apr 5th, 2006 at 8:07 pm

   In five years, we will also experience 11:11:11 11/11/11 which looks visually more attractive, I think.

7. Alun Clewe on Apr 5th, 2006 at 8:24 pm

   But we’ve got another nine decades and change before we get that one again…

   Er…eight decades and change, that is. Should have been pretty obvious that 90 - 6 

8. Alun Clewe on Apr 5th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

   Whoops! The end of my reply got cut off because I used a less-than sign instead of actually typing in "<". (Oddly enough, though, it looked OK in the preview.) Anyway, here’s the full reply I meant to post:

   But we’ve got another nine decades and change before we get that one again…

   Er…eight decades and change, that is. Should have been pretty obvious that 90 - 6 < 90, but I’m apparently not thinking straight today.

   But yeah, 11:11:11 11/11/11 is a good one too, and one that’s coming up much sooner.

9. ChuckleZ on Apr 6th, 2006 at 2:39 am

   Sixteen years ago I was taking a driving lesson when the instructor asked me to pull over, she told me to turn the engine off and look at the clock.

   It was the 12:34pm and 56 seconds on the 7th August, 1990… or 12:34.56 7/8/90… Once a century.

   I was in a beige Mini Metro, near Skelmersdale in Lancashire, since you ask.

10. Clifford on Apr 6th, 2006 at 2:45 am

    Yeah! Good ol’ Skelmersdale….. Been a while since I’ve been there.

    -cvj

11. Mark on Apr 6th, 2006 at 6:12 am

    Ah Skem - almost as many Scousers as Liverpool itself (not that there’s anything wrong with that). My grandparents lived there when I was growing up.

12. scouser on Apr 6th, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    Skelmersdale: Clifford? Mark? I was there when, as far as I can recall, I was growing up. It is, as they say, a small world. Not that I caught sight of any obviously putative string theorists or comologists. How blind can one be?

13. Philip on Apr 15th, 2006 at 11:16 am

    At 1:02 I was celebrating my birthday! It was a GREAT birthday! I think the science of numbers helped my birthday! Though this sequence may only happen once in a 100 year while, my BIRTHDAY happens every year!

14. adam on Apr 15th, 2006 at 8:54 pm

    Nothing wrong with scousers, Mark?

    You’ve been here too long and have clearly confused Liverpool, NY, with Liverpool, England.

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