It's a bittersweet day for mathletes: Dec. 13 or 12/13/14, marks the last sequential date of the century.
Unless you count 01/02/34, but who does that? That doesn't count.
Being that most people reading this will probably not be alive when the next sequential date rolls around in 2103, we've decided to commemorate this important day with a few pertinent details -- significant facts for a significant day.
1. The next sequential date won't happen for 88 years and 21 days.
That's 32,162 days until 01/02/2103. Will they be filled with darkness and dread? Or perhaps light and joy? How many royal babies will be born in that timespan?
2. The impostor sequential dates need to stop.
Let it be known that 01/02/34 is nothing -- the same goes for 02/03/45 and 03/04/56. That's not how math works. These are simply arbitrary dates without meaning, unlike today, which is very important and meaningful.
3. America is torn on the date's significance.
Today is 12-13-14 . . . Make it memorable— Incredible Pics (@incredibleviews) December 13, 2014
It's 12.13.14...Rasputin is alive— Asher Roth (@asherroth) December 13, 2014
Today's date is 12/13/14, so make sure you take a minute to appreciate just how much that literally doesn't matter at all.— Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) December 13, 2014
today is 12/13/14, which isn't really a big deal. personally i am more excited for 13/14/15. you say it doesn't exist, but wait. you'll see.— joe (@anamericangod) December 13, 2014
Is it good or bad? Will something happen? Is Rasputin alive? Nobody knows.
4. This is what the earth looks like today
View of the Americas on 12.13.14 http://t.co/hk2VSBFUtd #EarthRightNow #121314 pic.twitter.com/BC0FfzLTTj— NASA Goddard Images (@NASAGoddardPix) December 13, 2014
This feels important for some reason, doesn't it?
5. Pringles believes that the best way to celebrate this date is by eating Pringles
12/13/14 only comes around every 100 years. Celebrate it right. Share some Pringles. pic.twitter.com/CapDX8CL1Q— Pringles (@Pringles) December 13, 2014
We're not sure what this means or how they could they have come to this conclusion.
6. 11 years, 11 months and 11 days have passed since the century's first sequential date on Jan. 1, 2003 (01/02/03).
In that time, humanity has experienced many milestones:
We discovered the Higgs boson.
A royal baby was born.
American Idol changed judges multiple times.
The Survivor series carried on.
Could the key to these milestones lie in the sequential dates?
7. There are still a few more fun math dates that you might live to see.
Smithsonian has compiled a nice list of dates math lovers might enjoy, like the look-and-say sequence date on 01/11/21.
See you in 2103, folks.