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- and any other notable times. Sorry, readers in the UK will have to wait until next month for this.
Bongggg...
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Modestly suggest this for your 12:34:56 7/8/09 chiming pleasure [pocmloc, Aug 06 2009]
Times news story
http://timesnews.ty...for-your-diary.html
"At the anointed hour, a chap on Facebook warns: "Planes will fall from the sky." Meanwhile, a poster on DavidIcke.com writes: "There must be some huge cosmic significance to this hugely significant cosmic coincidence."" [hippo, Aug 07 2009]
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It's the other way round. They get it in the States today but we have to wait until next month.
OK for other times too? |
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Yup, I just realised I'd typed "US" when I should have typed "UK" - it's still early... |
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Took me a while to figure out what those numbers spelled out...
I feel a few IQ points lower now. Anyway, I've got 8 minutes left
here, in USA Pacific time zone, which means 3/4ths of my
countrymen have already missed it. |
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You could make it even more unique if you added incrementally significant location co-ordinates, and to cap it all a particular altitude above sea-level. Throwing in something to do with a weight measure, a temperature, and an angle of inclination would obviously be taking it too far. |
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Presumably the chime would involve: dividing an 'octave'
into
not eight or thirteen intervals but ten, and sounding a
tune
that progressively steps up this decimal scale - only to
leave
a suspended cadence at the end where you expect the
resolution to resolve at double the frequency of the
starting
note but it doesn't. |
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Perhaps there should also be a slightly more mystical
chime
for 21:34, 7/11/18 |
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Although, I really think that this, like all other dates,
should be encouraged to be expressed using ISO 8601. |
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(Damn! - I'm still trying to work out what's special about 21:34 7/11/18 in ISO 8601 format...) |
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The sequence (forget about ISO 8601 - this doesn't adhere to
it as it stands anyway) is this:
2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76, 123, 199, 322, 521, 843 (etc) |
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Ah! - a kind of Fibonacci series, but not the usual (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34) one. |
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That's right. It's a Lucas series. |
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For a moment, I thought that's 4 5 6 1 2 3. |
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OK. Got it eventually ... force not particularly strong over here at the moment |
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What a difference a day makes.
There should be a special chime for when one
finally gets this. Or a loud *BOING* at the very least. |
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A reminder for those who want to set a reminder for tomorrow. Midnight tonight doesn't count. This might have been a good opportunity to test the old 'If everyone in China jumped simultaneously...' |
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I can barely contain myself - only 2 hours to go. |
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Is it going to be like New Year's? Or even more of an anticlimax? |
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(I'm joking, I'm going for a tequila when it strikes...) |
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Link added - classic stuff. |
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Be sure you don't miss 09:09.09 09/09/09 tomorrow... |
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Erm... How might I miss it? |
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Is that one for the Americans, or the world? |
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Both. Don't worry if you miss the first one. There'll be another in the evening. |
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Okay, let's take a head count. Who's missing?
That will identify the baker who hijacked the Mexican
Airliner. It's gotta be one of us...God only speaks to
*us* through the dates on the calendar, right??? |
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<patiently waiting for 14:13.12 11/10/09...> |
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I was in the bath but my daughter knocked on the door to tell me i'd missed it. |
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How many special dates and times are there in a year, on the whole? If there were enough, the non-special ones would become the special ones. |
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Depends on the number base. |
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...and your specialness threshhold. |
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It also depends on the unit of time, for instance the ten millionth second in the year.
By the way, it's "threshold" because in Anglosaxon it was spelt "þrescold", not "þresc hold". |
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[Ian] oops, yes, and I always forget about the 'real' ellipsis
character. |
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