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Just as likely as 12:25 on 12/24.
by ryanpetrich 14y ago
Just as likely as 12:25 on 12/24.
- bigdubs 14y agoThough technically correct, this (seemingly) common response to highlighted dates belies the fact that no, 12:24 12/24 is in fact more rare than an arbitrary other minute because of the pattern in it's configuration. Sometimes pedantry gets in the way of appreciating something as small as this.
- jlgreco 14y agoThere are any number of ways a number could be considered "special". It could be prime, it could have no repeated digits, it could have sequential digits, it could be a friendly number, it could be a palindrome, it could be a perfect number, ... I could go on... Eventually the numbers with nothing "special" about them begin to appear the minority: http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html
- cdcarter 14y agoBut it's much more likely for it to land on "any other time" than "on an interestingly repetitive time."