Today, the calendar makes a right triangle, for the last time this century.
This Saturday is October 24, 2026.
Write it as 10/24/26 or 24/10/26, and the same beautiful relationship appears:
10² + 24² = 26²
100 + 576 = 676
But here’s what makes today special.
There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples. Only a handful fit our calendar.
Using the rule
month² + day² = (last two digits of the year)²,
the month cannot exceed 12, and the day cannot exceed 31. Those small limits leave exactly 12 qualifying dates in this century.
Today is the last.
The next will be March 4, 2105:
3² + 4² = 5²
That is a wait of more than 78 years.
An infinite family of triangles. Just twelve appearances on a century’s calendar.
Happy Pythagorean Triple Day.
Ofgem have today revealed that Britain might not have enough gas in a worst case scenario this winter.
Burnham says that it's better to produce oil and gas in Britain than importing it. So why is he banning new licences?
Here’s the real reason we need to get Britain drilling👇
‘I never see you at the club’ That’s funny, I never see you at the Avanti West Coast First Class Lounge London Euston enjoying a selection of complimentary biscuits
Keep seeing people bring up 27 jobs as an inconsequential number from drilling at Jackdaw.
Folks, those 27 engineers will be earning £150k+ each. A third of that will immediately go back to the UK gov via income tax, and the rest is disposable income injected into the UK economy. Probably the net contribution equivalent of 150 tesco workers.
Why are so many Labour MPs opposed to high-paid jobs in the UK is baffling
“Boys will be boys” is something mothers say about their sons when they're getting muddy in the back yard, but for some reason feminists have co-opted the phrase and applied it to r*pe or something
Oh no I only get 5 weeks of vacation a year from the job where it's illegal to fire me, and all it leads to is a retirement where I'll make even more money somehow. I must loot this Gamestop for le liberté.