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Each year on July 17 we celebrate Yellow Pig Day.

You're probably wondering, "What in the world is Yellow Pig Day?" This unique celebration dates back to the 1960s when two math students at Princeton, Michael Spivak and David C Kelly, were given an assignment to analyze the properties of the number 17. Thinking about the number 17 for so long drove them a bit nuts, (as you can imagine), so they came up with the idea of a mythical yellow pig.

The yellow pig had seventeen toes, seventeen teeth, seventeen eyelashes, etc.

Mike Spivack has become a famous author of textbooks. In each textbook, he likes to hide a "yellow pig." These yellow pigs are not pictures of yellow pigs. Instead, you have to be clever to find them. In one book, either it or a part of it is dedicated to a Chinese policeman. Chinese are often known as "yellow" and policemen are often known as "pigs." Therefore, a Chinese policeman is a yellow pig.

If you are a mathematician, spend part of the day thinking and working in multiples of 17. And, while you do so, give a little thought to yellow pigs.

Today, mathematicians in colleges and universities all across the country celebrate Yellow Pig Day by eating Yellow Pig Cake and singing Yellow Pig Carols (seriously, we couldn't make this stuff up). And of course, the festivities always take place on the 17th day of July.

This is not a holiday for weak imaginations, so let yours run wild! In honor of Yellow Pig Day, host a Yellow Pig Parade, exchange Yellow Pig Gifts, or come up with your own wacky way to celebrate.

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Each year on July 17 we celebrate Yellow Pig Day.

You're probably wondering, "What in the world is Yellow Pig Day?" This unique celebration dates back to the 1960s when two math students at Princeton, Michael Spivak and David C Kelly, were given an assignment to analyze the properties of the number 17. Thinking about the number 17 for so long drove them a bit nuts, (as you can imagine), so they came up with the idea of a mythical yellow pig.

The yellow pig had seventeen toes, seventeen teeth, seventeen eyelashes, etc.

Mike Spivack has become a famous author of textbooks. In each textbook, he likes to hide a "yellow pig." These yellow pigs are not pictures of yellow pigs. Instead, you have to be clever to find them. In one book, either it or a part of it is dedicated to a Chinese policeman. Chinese are often known as "yellow" and policemen are often known as "pigs." Therefore, a Chinese policeman is a yellow pig.

If you are a mathematician, spend part of the day thinking and working in multiples of 17. And, while you do so, give a little thought to yellow pigs.

Today, mathematicians in colleges and universities all across the country celebrate Yellow Pig Day by eating Yellow Pig Cake and singing Yellow Pig Carols (seriously, we couldn't make this stuff up). And of course, the festivities always take place on the 17th day of July.

This is not a holiday for weak imaginations, so let yours run wild! In honor of Yellow Pig Day, host a Yellow Pig Parade, exchange Yellow Pig Gifts, or come up with your own wacky way to celebrate.

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