Today is a special day, not because it’s Groundhog Day or Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a day, the like of which comes around only once every thousand years or so. As a math guy, I like numbers, and unless you’re afflicted with aibohphobia*, you might like this too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
02\/02\/2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a palindromic date, reading the same front to back as back to front…no matter what culture you’re in!<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Americans, for reasons I’ve never understood, do month\/day\/year. Europeans follow a logical progression: day\/month\/year. So today is palindromic in both the US and Europe. But that happens from time to time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What makes this one even more special is that it’s palindromic for those who write year\/month\/day, as they do in Asia or the way I sometimes name files: YYYYMMDD so that the computer alphabetizes them chronologically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2020\/02\/02<\/p>\n\n\n\n So enjoy the day…and the game. There’s no particular spiritual significance to this that I know of, but it’s OK just to enjoy numbers, isn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118.24, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. (Romans 14.5, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n *aibohphobia <\/em>is the (unofficial) word for “an irrational fear of palindromes” <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is a special day, not because it’s Groundhog Day or Super Bowl Sunday. It’s a day, the like of which comes around only once every thousand years or so. As a math guy, I like numbers, and unless you’re afflicted with aibohphobia*, you might like this too! 02\/02\/2020 It’s a palindromic date, reading the … Continue reading A Special Day<\/span>