Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 3, 2002, 21:21 |
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Am 01.01.02, Anton Sherwood yscrifef:
> > > > Fine, except that you've just given them an 801 day
> > > > year.
> > >
> > > No I haven't.
> >
> > Really? You should start on "1". It prevents confusion.
Millenium hand and shrip ye bloody well did!
> Using a nonzero number as a base of reference *causes* confusion
Well, you had me for a while; but it seems I wasn't the one
confused after all.
My mind may not come to grips with numbers well, but, as they
say, as picture's worth a thousand words. Or in this case, eight
hundred and one.
Starting at "one" and going to "eight hundred" gives 800 marks on
a paper. Adding one for your stupid zeroth day gives 801 days. I
figure you were just trying to be computer programmer clever.
Didn't work this time.
> Anton Sherwood
Padraic.
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