Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numbers. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Cool Clock Confluences

No mathematical activity is more fun than when numbers seem to line up in a mystical way. Watching a car's odometer turn over from 299,999.9 miles to 300,000 miles is a major numeric event.

So it was that on June 6, 2006 (ummm... that's 6/6/06 in case you weren't paying attention) I noticed several significant times of the day:

1:11
2:22
3:33
4:44
5:55
and last, but not least, the longest one: 11:11.

I wasn't around for both the AM and PM version of these, but that does double the list.

What does this all mean?

Not a thing that I can see, but it is sort of cool to watch these times appear on a digital clock and stare at them for 59 seconds until your eyes water and they pass into eternity.