Graduation is 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days from today! I think…
Counting back from May 11, 2013 yields the following:
2 years puts us at May 11, 2011
2 months – March 11, 2011
2 weeks – February 25, 2011
2 days – February 23, 2011, which is today!
Counting forward from today:
2 years – February 23, 2013
2 months – April 23, 2013
2 weeks – May 7, 2013
Leaving 4 days to get to May 11, 2013
Unless you count forward like this:
2 days – February 25, 2011
2 weeks – March 11, 2011
2 months – May 11, 2011
2 years – May 11, 2013
This makes one wonder what happens when you count back like this:
2 days – May 9, 2013
2 weeks – April 25, 2013
2 months – February 25, 2013
2 years – February 25, 2011
Leaving us 2 more days to get back to today!
While I wait for someone to enlighten me as to whatever obvious explanation there is for this discrepancy, I’m going to trust the 2, 2, 2, 2 math. In part because that’s what my new countdown clock over there on the side says. Also, I don’t want to wait until Friday for it to be 2 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days until graduation!
Was this is a trick question? I assume it's because there are different numbers of days in months (and in the years too since 2012 is a leap year). I say go with the shortest.
ReplyDeleteI am your most faithful blog follower, I believe. Which means I probably have the least to do. Or that I really need to do my reading for tomorrow. :)
Thank you, my faithful follower.
ReplyDeleteAnd look at you, being all smart and stuff. I figured out 2012 was a leap year, but there was still that one extra day to account for. But the different numbers of days in the months makes sense. We were talking about this at school this morning and I honestly couldn't wrap my brain around it.