>Today, nov 19th, is GIS Day (yahoo!!! wheee!! yabba dabba doo!, >etc.), but I thought this little observation on world >demographics was appropriate for the event: I just discovered something else cool about today too: (from slashdot.org, in turn from an unspecified mailing list) "Today is November 19th, 1999. The numerical format for today is 19-11-1999. All of the digits are odd. The next Odd day will be 1-1-3111 - which is well over a thousand years away, which we will never see. Days such as 13-4-89 have both even and odd digits, thus, it is neither odd nor even. The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 28-8-888. So, now you have a reason to celebrate this Friday as it'll be your last odd day on Earth!!!!!" Also: - 11 and 19 are both primes, as well as odd numbers. 1999 is also prime, which makes this Prime Day, as well. - 11:59:59 19/11/1999 is the last odd timestamp of our lifetimes. It's also an entirely prime timestamp! - If you write the date in British format (as most countries do), 19/11/1999, then 19111999 is prime - 1111 years 1 month 11 days number of days in the interval between this odd day and the next one So, Happy Odd Gis Prime Day Everyone! -matt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
