April 11 of 1954 can be identified as the most boring of the 20th century, according to the Cambridge scientist, computer programmer William Tunstall-Pedoe。
剑桥大学一位科学家、计算机编程人员威廉 汤斯多宣称,1954年4月11日为20世纪最无聊的一天。
On that day a general election was held in Belgium,
a Turkish academic was born and an Oldham Athletic footballer died,
Tunstall-
Pedoe'
s computer program suggests.
Apart from that nothing much happened。
威廉 汤斯多最新编写的程序显示,在那天,比利时举行了大选,一个土耳其学者诞生,还有一个英格兰奥德汉姆球队足球运动员去世。除此以外,便没有更值得注意的事情了。
The program,
called True Knowledge,
came to its decision after being fed some 300
million facts about "
people,
places,
business and events".
Using complex algorithms,
such as how much one piece of information was linked to others,
True Knowledge determined that particular 1950
s Sunday to be outstanding in its obscurity。
威廉的这一程序名为“真实知识”,在接收到3亿条含有“人物、地点、业务事件”的信息后会做出相关判断。通过复杂的算法(比如其考虑一条信息在多大程度上跟其他信息相联系),该程序得出上世纪50年代的这一星期天是最无聊的一天。
"
Nobody significant died that day,
no major events apparently occurred,"
Tunstall-
Pedoe said. "
The irony is,
though,
that -
having done the calculation -
the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring."
“没有重要的人在这一天去世,也没有重要的事件在这一天发生,”汤斯多说道。“但让人觉得可笑的是,经过计算,这一天的格外无聊使得它的存在有意思了。”
Plans for the coup d'
etat in Yanaon,
then a small French colony in India,
are also believed to have been hatched that on the evening of April 11, 1954,
but nothing actually happened that night。
据说,当时还是法属殖民地的印度小城雅隆在那天晚上曾发生政变,但最终什么都没发生。 (实习编辑:顾萍)
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