You're correct, I tried to tell them too. The whole point of COMMs is creating a message through agreed upon principles. Who created the date? And why add each separate digit when they arent separate digits. And If you can separate the digits to add them together why not separate into double digits instead of single? The only reason is because single digits gave you a number that is sometimes used for comms, but you are ignoring that you could find that same number in hundreds of dates when you have no principles restricting your ability to manipulate the order of operations or even what digits go together. So retarded.