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Birthday Thoughts

My message to all Thank you very much to all of you for being part of my life. My life has definitely been much richer because of all of you. I mean, life without challenges would definitely be a bore. :-p My reply to all greetings in FB Since there are so many greetings, I decided to write a code to save me time. I hope you guys don't mind. For i=1 to Num_FB_Friends  do If Greeted(FB_Friend[i]) then   Write(Wall(FB_Friend[i]), ¨Thank you so much for the greetings!¨) Else   Write(Wall(FB_Friend[i]), ¨Did you check your calendar today?¨);   Unfriend(FB_Friend[i]) My age If you wish to know my real age, check out this post : 17 Again : Discovering the Fountain of Youth My birthday aspirations That what should be shall be.  (Galadriel to Frodo at the Mirror of Galadriel in JRR Tolkien's Fellowship of the Rings ) Genuine peace and human progress around the world. Emitte Spiritum tuum et renova faciem terrae! (Send forth your Spirit and renew the face of the ea

17 Again : Discovering the Fountain of Youth

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I’ll be celebrating my birthday in a few days time. I’ll be 17 again! Yes, I have discovered the Fountain of Youth! The  Fountain of Youth that has evaded many explorers and philosophers for ages! The thing is, they were looking for it at the wrong places! The Fountain of Youth is to be found in Math, in Number Theory, in the Base Number System! I was 17 turning  18 when I found out I could remain 17 forever by simply changing the base number system when calculating my age! The day I turned 18 (Base 10), I decided to say goodbye to the Decimal System (at least in computing for my age) and adopted the Undecimal Number System (Base 11) so that I’ll be 17 again. The following year, I adopted the Duodecimal Number System (Base 12), and thus, I was 17 again!  As  I approach another birthday, I’ll be 17 yet again. But please, don’t ask me which Base Number System I will be using then . We are most familiar with the Decimal Base Number System.  In grade school mathematics, we ca