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Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Saturday, January 5, 2002, 6:04
Padraic Brown wrote:
> I don't know. I don't do maths.
No kidding?
> All I can say is, if you > have a year of 800 days, you start on "one" and count to > 800 (that's a year); then start over. Sticking a day zero > in there confuses the matter, giving you 801 days.
My preference, of course, is to run from 000 to 799. But, as I said before, this is not about calendars.
> Perhaps he was using day 0 for some point - I don't know,
I've explained twice. Next time perhaps I'll try to dumb it down even further. -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/

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