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Today is 02/02/2020 – the first palindrome in 909 years and the only time this century that the date will read the same forwards and backwards
- Today’s date is 02/02/2020, the first palindrome in 909 years. A palindrome is a sequence of numbers that reads the same forwards and backwards
- The math department at the Solihull School in England pointed out in a tweet early Sunday that the date reads the same in all date formats (US, UK and ISO)
- Wedding chapels in Las Vegas were using the palindrome as a clever way of enticing couples to get married on a ‘significant’ or easy-to-remember date
- The last time a palindrome occurred was 909 years ago on 11/11/1111, and the next one will come in 101 years on 12/12/2121
Today is 02/02/2020, marking the first palindrome to occur in a numerical date in 909 years.
That means the date reads the same whether its read forwards, or backwards.
A palindrome is a sequence of numbers or letters that reads the same no matter how one reads it. For example, the words mom and dad are palindromes.
The last time a palindrome within a date occurred was 909 years ago on 11/11/1111.
The next one will come in 101 years on 12/12/2121.
The math department at the Solihull School in England pointed out in a tweet early Sunday that the date also reads the same in all date formats: US, UK and the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, which places the year before the month and date
The math department at the Solihull School in England pointed out in a tweet early Sunday that the date also reads the same in all date formats: US, UK and the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, which places the year before the month and date.
The school’s animated tweet shows how the numbers can easily switched in direction without changing the date.
Las Vegas wedding chapels, which love to entice couples with ‘significant’ or ‘easy-to-remember’ dates, also found 02/02/2020 to be useful in marketing their services to anyone looking for a memorable anniversary.
The Royal Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas among chapels enticing couples with ‘significant’ or ‘easy-to-remember’ dates, that included 02/02/2020
The Royal Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on its website indicated that bookings for weddings on 02/02/2020 were already ’50 per cent Reserved’
‘Notably 2-2-20 and 2-20-20 are unmatched when it comes to significant sequences, not to mention that your two year anniversary will take place on 2-2-22 or 2-22-22!!’ the Royal Wedding Chapel on Las Vegas Boulevard wrote on its website.
‘Two being the ultimate symbolic number representing you and your spouse to be. Two becoming one,’ the chapel’s marketing pitch add.
Sunday also was Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Club co-handlers John Griffiths and Al Dereume hold Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 134th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, on Sunday
Sunday is also worth noting for the Superbowl, the American past-time which was being played for the 54th time. The game, set to start at 6:30 p.m. pits the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs
Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow and revealed there will be an early spring this year.
At sunrise on Sunday, members of Phil’s hat-wearing inner circle revealed the furry forecaster’s prediction.
The day also was worth noting for the Superbowl, the American past-time which was being played for the 54th time.
The game, set to start at 6:30 p.m. was pitting the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs.
The game, typically one of the biggest broadcast events of the year, will include a commercial returning funny man Bill Murray to the role he played in the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day in a commercial for Jeep.
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