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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/...909issospecial
Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.
In Florida, at least one county clerk's office is offering a one-day wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this Sept. 9 hasn't been lost on the creators of the iPod, who have moved their traditional Tuesday release day to Wednesday to take advantage of the special date. Focus Features is releasing their new film "9," an animated tale about the apocalypse, on the 9th.
Not only does the date look good in marketing promotions, but it also represents the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium (mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to count it.
Though technically there's nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the history and meaning of numbers ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.
For cultures in which the number nine is lucky, Sept. 9 is anticipated - while others might see the date as an ominous warning.
Math magic
Modern numerologists - who operate outside the realm of real science - believe that mystical significance or vibrations can be assigned to each numeral one through nine, and different combinations of the digits produce tangible results in life depending on their application.
As the final numeral, the number nine holds special rank. It is associated with forgiveness, compassion and success on the positive side as well as arrogance and self-righteousness on the negative, according to numerologists.
Though usually discredited as bogus, numerologists do have a famous predecessor to look to. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and father of the famous theorem, is also credited with popularizing numerology in ancient times.
"Pythagoras most of all seems to have honored and advanced the study concerned with numbers, having taken it away from the use of merchants and likening all things to numbers," wrote Aristoxenus, an ancient Greek historian, in the 4th century B.C.
As part of his obsession with numbers both mathematically and divine, and like many mathematicians before and since, Pythagoras noted that nine in particular had many unique properties.
Any grade-schooler could tell you, for example, that the sum of the two-digits resulting from nine multiplied by any other single-digit number will equal nine. So 9x3=27, and 2+7=9.
Multiply nine by any two, three or four-digit number and the sums of those will also break down to nine. For example: 9x62 = 558; 5+5+8=18; 1+8=9.
Sept. 9 also happens to be the 252nd day of the year (2 + 5 +2)...
Loving 9
Both China and Japan have strong feelings about the number nine. Those feelings just happen to be on opposite ends of the spectrum.
The Chinese pulled out all the stops to celebrate their lucky number eight during last year's Summer Olympics, ringing the games in at 8 p.m. on 08/08/08. What many might not realize is that nine comes in second on their list of au ious digits and is associated with long life, due to how similar its pronunciation is to the local word for long-lasting (eight sounds like wealth).
Historically, ancient Chinese emperors associated themselves closely with the number nine, which appeared prominently in architecture and royal dress, often in the form of nine fearsome dragons. The imperial dynasties were so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex at Beijing's Forbidden City is rumored to have been built with 9,999 rooms.
Japanese emperors would have never worn a robe with nine dragons, however.
In Japanese, the word for nine is a phone for the word for suffering, so the number is considered highly unlucky - second only to four, which sounds like death.
Many Japanese will go so far as to avoid room numbers including nine at hotels or hospitals, if the building planners haven't already eliminated them altogether.
It's 1 1/2 devils!
i think the gregorian calendar kinda threw a monkey wrench into all these dates and prophecies and all that.....unless they predicted the usage of the gregorian calendar.
I just posted the article because I thought it contained some interesting trivia.
I do expect something great will happen to me tomorrow, but I have that expectation for every day of my life. And rarely am I disappointed.
weren't the mtv movie awards held on 9/9/99 and it was a big deal last time? What happened when it was September 9, 999 AD/BC? or when it comes to september 9, 9999? Then I'll start freaking out.
At first I was going to declare 09/09/09 an accursed date because of the seering pain that arose in my forehead as I started reading this, but then I remember that happens any time I think of something math related.
Welcome back!
And there is my something good that happened to me today- an SFIE post.
cause beatles rockband comes out?
Well, at least there's three sets of double digit repeating dates to look forward to.... 10/10/10, 11/11/11 and 12/12/12....
it better be the day i get superpowers
Crossin my fingers for an eclipse.
...or a hot cheerleader. Whichever.
asteroid
Crossin my fingers for an eclipse.
...or a hot cheerleader. Whichever.
it's humpday!
999 upside down is 666
Because this is when Skynet will become self aware. I'll find you Sarah Connor.
My birfday was 888.
It was alright. Got some super powers and stuff.
damn, the last one of these i'll see for the rest of my life....
That blows.
Just thought of this. How come October 10th of next year wouldn't be special.
Nor November 11th of 2011, nor December 12th of 2012?
it wont be until some ad agency decides it will
Anybody know of any good promotions if it's your birthday?
Angel, I thought you'd be more interested in "the one seventh ellipse." Afterall, seven is the number of God.
One-seventh of one is 0.142857142857142857142857142857142857.......
Break it into pairs and plot on an x,y graph. The pairs being (1, 4), (4, 2), (2, 8), (8, 5), (5, 7) and (7, 1). These pairs form an ellipse. Now you can do the same with the two digit pairs (14, 28), (42, 85), (28, 57), (85, 71), (57, 14), (71, 42).
Because 10 years ago on 9/9/99 the Sega Dreamcast was unleash and to me it was one of the best systems ever.....I mean it had a modem straight out of the box, I played my first game online with it and never look back.
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It is special. My birthday.Just thought of this. How come October 10th of next year wouldn't be special.
It is.
This the last set SINGLE DIGIT dates until the next century, thus the extra focus on it.
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