Today I realized that I have only posted on odd days and indeed, every odd day thus far this month. Being the curious type which would join a GBC, I decided to go on a search for “odd days”. Instead of a literary connection however, my math tendencies took me in another direction. As you might already know, 5/7/2009 is one of only six odd days this century. The first such noted odd day is 01/03/1905 and my limited research led me to a contest to celebrate the date sponsored by Ron Gordon with, of course, a $579 prize. My theories on the other four: 07/09/1911, 09/11/1913, 11/13/1915 and 03/05/2007. I think this means that most of us have only had two odd days in our lives. Can that be right?
Anyway, hope your odd day was a good one.
Ok, was very confused about there being only six in a century until I realized it meant consecutive numbers (e.g., 3/5/7) and not just any odd numbers (e.g., 1/9/9). Sometimes I'm slow...but I get there (usually!). I like this little oddity :o)
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