Comments on: 123456

By: adam

adam — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:54:53 +0000

Nothing wrong with scousers, Mark?

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

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:16:05 +0000

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!

By: scouser

scouser — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:13:42 +0000

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?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:12:16 +0000

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.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:45:02 +0000

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

-cvj

By: ChuckleZ

ChuckleZ — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:39:05 +0000

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.

By: Alun Clewe

Alun Clewe — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:25:47 +0000

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.

By: Alun Clewe

Alun Clewe — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:24:22 +0000

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

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:07:01 +0000

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

By: Alun Clewe

Alun Clewe — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:11:26 +0000

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…

By: Lubos Motl

Lubos Motl — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:24:04 +0000

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.

By: Rien

Rien — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:03:33 +0000

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

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:36:34 +0000

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.

By: Tony Bannard-Smith

Tony Bannard-Smith — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:16:50 +0000

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