Mathemagician" excited by odd date


	Mathemagician" excited by odd date

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7-5-2009 4:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/496c65c3-f7f2-4f03-954d-85a287e89e70/2F1A6942-68E9-451B-88AB-5735FD3DF609/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/od_afp/britainoffbeat_20090705085430" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/od_afp/britainoffbeat_20090705085430" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/od_afp/britainoffbeat_20090705085430">LONDON (AFP) – 
Notice anything exceptional about today's date? It's July 5, 2009 (05/07/09) -- and three consecutive <SPAN id="lw_1246784192_0" class="yshortcuts">odd numbers</SPAN> make up the date only five times in a century.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/od_afp/britainoffbeat_20090705085430">This nugget is pointed out by Californian high school maths teacher Ron Gordon, a self-confessed "mathemagician".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090705/od_afp/britainoffbeat_20090705085430"><P>"This really is a day to celebrate. OK, it's true there will be another one in two years' time on <SPAN id="lw_1246784192_1" class="yshortcuts">September 7</SPAN>, 2011 (07/09/11), and one on November 9, 2013 (09/11/13) but then it won't happen again for 92 years. And I sure won't be around to see it."</p> <P>
So what does Gordon suggest you do on "Odd Day"? It's a great day to do your odds 'n ends, give a friend a high-five or root for the odds-on-favourite, he says.</p> <P>
And fittingly, if <SPAN id="lw_1246784192_2" class="yshortcuts">Roger Federer</SPAN> wins the Wimbledon men's title today it will be his 15th <SPAN id="lw_1246784192_3" class="yshortcuts">Grand Slam title</SPAN>.</p> <P>
If these numerical oddities grab you, take a look at http://www.oddday.net/ and plunge into Ron Gordon's world.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F1A6942-68E9-451B-88AB-5735FD3DF609/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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