In 16 days I will be 11239 days old, the 1358th time I will be a prime number of days old. Next year I turn 1 bilion seconds old.
Celebrating integer birthdays is so last time interval. Here’s how to locate your more obscure and less frequent Days of Mathematical Celebration:
PRIME BIRTHDAY
http://primebirthday.org/
What started as a conversation between myself and James Grime last year was leaked onto twitter and within a non-prime and non-composite number of days, the website had been built by Edmund Harriss and Dan Hagon. Works brilliantly for anniverseries.
NERDIVERSARY
http://nerdiversary.com/
A much wider spectrum of calculations, this will let you know when your age is a mathematically interesting number of time units as well as when you’d be an integer number of years on different planets in our solar system. As well as mathematically interesting numbers of other-planet years: I’m about to turn 2^7 mercurial years, it seems.
DO IT YOURSELF
http://www.google.com/search?q=pi+cubed+years
I have been waiting a long time for when I’m going to turn π³ (pi cubed) years old. Because I was born at 04:27GMT it will be at 11:28am on the 24 December this year. I’m giving you ample time to organise presents and themed cakes.
What other nerdy time intervals do people celebrate?
Turns out I turn 6^7 hours on the same day my partner celebrates 55 Venusian years, and if that’s not an excuse for a party I don’t know what is.
Check out the free iPhone app Versaries for a similar idea.
Wouldn’t pi to the pi be a better anniversary? That would be around 36.46 years (although you should check this number before using it!) Alas I’ve already gone past that date.
I calculate my age in earth years, but I use hexadecimal. Makes me feel much younger.
I really hope some one makes you a cube-shaped pie for your pi^3 birthday.
I’m the author of nerdiversary. Thanks for the link!
Any other suggestions to add to the site? I’m happy to add more reasons for a party.
Hi Paul,
The hours calculator had some bugs in it when I tried it. E.g., I changed the input value and the output remained the same. Then I calculated by hand and what nerdiversary said was 20,000 hours was really somewhere closer to 23500 hours. Since it’s a brilliant idea, I thought I’d point it out, in case you weren’t aware. Good luck.
-Blue
I love these sites. Had to tweet my next prime birthday as it is coming up soon. Going to share it with my kids as a fun way to bring up science and math. Thanks!