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defender
Joined: 27 Oct 2000
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20:02 02/20/2002
 Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:39 am
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....at 8:02 the time will be;
military time (20:02 02/20/2002)
[Edited 2 times, lastly by defender on 02-20-2002] |
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penumbra
Joined: 24 Apr 2001
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Wed Feb 20, 2002 2:00 pm
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Yikes defender! Hey RTW, glad to see you back! That's a wild link, I'm going to do it, are you? |
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RidesTheWind
Joined: 27 Feb 2001
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Wed Feb 20, 2002 3:23 pm
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Hey Pen...Thanks. Yeah for sure I'm going to do it. I'll let you know the results. Good luck! |
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Thermit
Joined: 08 Jul 2000
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Wed Feb 20, 2002 5:51 pm
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quote:
Turn back time tonight ...
by Geraint Smith Science Correspondent
It won't come around for 111 years, and after that it will never happen again. At 8.02pm, the world will witness a time that is truly, triply palindromic. It will be 20:02/20.02/2002.
Read the time, the day, the month and the year forwards or backwards, in numeric form, and the result is the same, discarding punctuation. Moreover, every individual component - time, date and year - is identical, and every one is itself a palindrome.
That has happened only three times before - at 10.01 on 10 January 1001, at 11.11 on 11 November 1111, and at 12.21 on 12 December 1221. "And when they happened, nobody had digital watches to notice it," says Professor Peter Cameron, professor of mathematics at Queen Mary College of the University of London.
It can only ever happen once more, says Professor Cameron - at 21.12 on 21 December 2112. "It is impossible after that because there are only 12 months in the year."
http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=502200&in_review_text_id=464612 |
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