Turning 100000 on 01-11-10
Palindrome dates of the MM-DD-YY variety don't come around too often. In fact, there are only twenty-four every century: 01-11-10, 01-22-10, ..., 12-11-21, 12-22-21. Today I'm lucky enough to have a birthday on one of them! (The only one I'll ever have, unless I live 100 more years.)
What's more, my age today can also be expressed as a palindrome: 00000100000. If this number looks funny to you it's probably because the representation is binary (computerese) rather than decimal (humanese). What's more, the fact that there's only a single "1" means that the number is a power of 2 (2⁵ = 32 to be precise).
If only I'd have been born at 10:00:01, I bet I'd be flying right now.
What's more, my age today can also be expressed as a palindrome: 00000100000. If this number looks funny to you it's probably because the representation is binary (computerese) rather than decimal (humanese). What's more, the fact that there's only a single "1" means that the number is a power of 2 (2⁵ = 32 to be precise).
If only I'd have been born at 10:00:01, I bet I'd be flying right now.







