There goes that dream

Last night, I was talking with a friend, and he joked about how much I love prime numbers, and how I should marry them. I responded by saying I should instead find a girl whose birth date is entirely prime numbers--month, day and year. After thinking about that for a little while, this proves to be very limiting.

To start with, there are only 5 months during the year who are prime numbers--February (2), March (3), May (5), July (7), and November (11). There are only 9 days in February (I'm not counting the 29th for reasons I'll explain later) that would be prime, 10 in November, and 11 in the each of the other three months--2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31. This is 52 days out of the year.

Now for the year. I can't count February 29 because that day only appears during leap years, and those are all multiples of four. Going by XKCD, the dateable age range for me is currently 19-34. That means women who were born between 1976 and 1991 (slight simplification here, but it makes no difference). The only years that are prime numbers within that range are 1979 and 1987. This means I would have to find someone born on one of only 104 days. Somehow, I don't think that's feasible--or rational, but when has rationality ever stopped me before. I'll just have to be okay without that amazing feat. Besides, my birth date is only 2 out of 3 anyway. Darn 1986 ruined it all.

--and if you really must know, yes I did all of this figuring in my head while getting ready for bed last night. I only did a quick check on my prime number spreadsheet to make sure I was right.

We also talked about a list I made--partially as a joke--about reasons why any woman would be unlucky to marry me. It covered a piece of notebook paper, front and back--without the fact that I'm very good at seeing the bad in me, but horrible at seeing the good in me. He said I should make a list about the good, but I would not be able to make that list as long as the other, just because I see good things in me as "normal, everyone is/should be like this"--and so tend to overlook them--and the bad things are "weird, specific to me and/or people you don't want to deal with for very long". Well, there's only about 4 hours until my third-to-last shift before moving, so I should maybe think about getting ready.