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(Message started by: maryl on Apr 25^th, 2003, 5:21pm)

Title: 1961
Post by maryl on Apr 25^th, 2003, 5:21pm

What happened in 1961 that will not happen again for over 4000 years?

Title: Re: 1961
Post by mistysakura on Apr 25^th, 2003, 6:12pm

I've turned my trivia portal upside-down, inside-out, concentrated on seperate words in the sentence... not working.
Just kidding, this one's a real classic.

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Icarus on Apr 26^th, 2003, 9:32am

And was the gap from the previous occurence a more reasonable [hide]80 years[/hide]?

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Icarus on Apr 26^th, 2003, 10:17am

Come to think of it, if my idea is right, the next occurrence would be [hide]2 [/hide]years from now, not 4000+. At least if everything is expressed the right way.

Expressed in other fashions, it would be in [hide]4006[/hide] years.

Title: Re: 1961
Post by maryl on Apr 26^th, 2003, 3:13pm

on 04/26/03 at 10:17:45, Icarus wrote:

That was rather astute calculating, and an interesting deduction, my good man. ;)

Title: Re: 1961
Post by mistysakura on Apr 26^th, 2003, 5:16pm

Uh huh. LCD numbers make things so much easier. ;D

Title: Re: 1961
Post by da Best Riddler on May 31^st, 2003, 8:41pm

The year's date reads the same when turned upside down. That will not happen again until 6009.

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Leonid Broukhis on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 6:04pm

That happened last year. Let's not mix inversion and mirroring, Icarus.

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Icarus on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 6:06pm

I was refering to the previous occurence before 1961, not before this year.

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Leonid Broukhis on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 7:49pm

on 06/02/03 at 18:06:50, Icarus wrote:

I was refering to the previous occurence before 1961, not before this year.

I was objecting to "[hide]2[/hide] years from now".

Title: Re: 1961
Post by Icarus on Jun 2^nd, 2003, 8:01pm

on 06/02/03 at 19:49:08, Leonid Broukhis wrote:

I was objecting to "[hide]2[/hide] years from now".

Okay.. I suppose that I was[hide] rotating that one around a vertical axis instead of a horizontal.[/hide]

But it really comes down to how you interpret the question, doesn't it? ;)

[hide]Your interpretation is equivalent to "the year posesses center-symmetry."
Mine is "The year is symmetric".

Under both, it is still not 4000 years until the next occurence, if one uses the appropriate font.[/hide]