20世紀最無聊一天:1954年4月11日

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。

劍橋大學一位科學家、計算機編程人員威廉 湯斯多宣稱，1954年4月11日爲20世紀最無聊的一天。

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 湯斯多最新編寫的程序顯示，在那天，比利時舉行了大選，一個土耳其學者誕生，還有一個英格蘭奧德漢姆球隊足球運動員去世。除此以外，便沒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 1950s Sunday to be outstanding in its obscurity。

威廉的這一程序名爲“真實知識”，在接收到3億條含有“人物、地點、業務事件”的信息後會做出相關判斷。通過複雜的算法(比如其考慮一條信息在多大程度上跟其他信息相聯繫)，該程序得出上世紀50年代的這一星期天是最無聊的一天。

"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."

“沒有重要的人在這一天去世，也沒有重要的事件在這一天發生，”湯斯多說道。“但讓人覺得可笑的是，經過計算，這一天的格外無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。

據說，當時還是法屬殖民地的印度小城雅隆在那天晚上曾發生政變，但最終什麼都沒發生。