Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

Padraic Brown wrote:
> 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.
Your point, if any, continues to elude me.

What I wrote about Discworld seasons amounted to: "One day it looks like
this ... 800 days later it looks like that again."  How, pray tell, am I
to say such a thing without referring to two days 800 apart?  Apparently
you want me to throw accuracy out the window and write "The Disc is in
the same position on day 1 and day 800."

I wasn't proposing a calendar, but if you want to debate calendars:
What's the advantage of having nine values (012345678) for the high
digit rather than eight (01234567)?

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