OT: Freaky Maths Year

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/31/2011 9:26 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
> On 1/31/2011 5:57 PM, Ken Cole wrote:
>> Since we regularly talk about dates and maths here:
>>
>> This is freaky! This year we will experience 4 unusual dates....
>> 1/1/11, 11/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/11/11 .....
>
> I dislike the ones that leave out the century, and dislike the arbitrary
> and somewhat nonsensical arranging of month and day before year etc, so
> I like 20111102
> or add in the time 20111111111102
>
> (Although I loved Heinlein centennial being 777, and just as was pointed
> out when time_t rolled over, these are ALL just arbitrary numbers of
> arbitrary units within arbitrary scales.)

I hear that some other arbitrary scale will reach the end of its arbitrary 
units, and wrap its arbitrary numbers back to the "beginning" sometime late 
next year as measured by our arbitrary scale.  :-)

-- 
Kenneth Brody