From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 18 1999 - 21:36:47 MST
Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> Sasha, do you happen to know when the last odd day was?
I'll take a wild stab at it and say 11/17/1999?
The last *even* day would have been, lessee, 12/30/0888.
Hence, we're one of the few people to see an odd and an even day. Given
a normal human lifespan and positively increasing numbering, it can only
happen during the rollover from an odd-digit millennium to an even-digit millennium.
The last generation to see an odd day and an even day would have been
the generation that saw the flipover from 888 AD to 911 AD.
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