Each December, there’s a lot to celebrate, from Hanukkah, to Christmas to New Year’s Eve.
On Thursday, another cool, more coincidental day is drawing attention, as the date is notable for more than one reason.
It is Dec. 2, 2021, and written out, it may not seem like anything special, but when you see the date in numbers, 20211202, it creates two unique patterns, a palindrome and an ambigram, meteorologist Jacob Wycoff pointed out on Facebook.
Meteorologists write the date in order of the year, month and date, but what’s also cool is that it works in another format. When writing in order of month, date and year, 12022021, the same patterns remain.
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of letters that reads the same backward as forward. Other examples include “racecar,” “civic” or “level.”
In this case, the date reads 20211202, which is the same backwards and forwards.
An ambigram describes a word that reads the same upside down, which in this case, all of the numbers can be flipped to reveal the same numbers. Sometimes lettering is specifically designed to make an ambigram.
Take the word, “Yeah” for example. If you were to write it in cursive and stretch out the stems of “y” and “h,” it can look like the same word upside down. You can find a photo of what this looks like online.
Pretty cool, huh?
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