Doh! I missed it!!

Earlier today, the Linux Epoch time ... which is the number os seconds since January 1st 1970 when the world was created ... reached this number:

1234567890
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Letters and numbers are often mentally grouped together; they're both simple sets of symbols that are the building blocks for much more complex concepts, and mastering their relationships is a cornerstone of early education.
A few days ago there was an interesting math problem posed on the right-leaning lawprof blog The Volokh Conspiracy. It's a cute problem in itself, and it makes a nice discussion example about the role of computers in modern physics.

Greg,
I remembered it about three hours late. Someone had posted a perl script to display it too. Very bummed.

Are you sure about that? I make the count 4996CA01.

Of course the REAL programmers celebrated ages ago when it turned 0123456789....