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Birthday Cards

January 23, 2018

Two birthday cards using modular arithmetic: mod 365 you're a newborn, or, pedantically, your age in days equals your number of leap years.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-23-birthday-cards/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"Birthday cards for mathematicians!"

[Regular] "Modulo 365 days... you're a newborn!"

[Extra Pedantic] "Modulo 365 days... you are how many Leap Years you've lived through"

Topics
Number Theory › Modular ArithmeticNumber & Arithmetic › Time & MeasurementNumber & Arithmetic › Division & Remainders
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Middle SchoolHigh SchoolCollege
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History & HolidaysMathematiciansLetters & Notes