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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Significance of 11/11/11

                       Based on past calendar dates such as 10/10/10, or October 10, 2010, no significant or unusual phenomenon occurs simply because of a date that has the same numbers in a sequence.

                        The numerical sequence of November 11 holds a special significance in the binary numeral system, which is the base-2 number system that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1. The date of November 11 has a binary number of 111110 where it has a decimal equivalent of 62 in the year 2010, and a binary number of 111111 with a decimal equivalent of 63 in the year 2011.
                       The number eleven has a special characteristic in mathematics where it is the sixth prime number. It contains some interesting peculiarities where the number eleven times itself equals a palindrome:

    (2 digits) 11 x 11 = 121 
    (6 digits) 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321 
    (9 digits) 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321
    Source: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/11-11.html

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