Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

Am 04.01.02, kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET yscrifef:

> I think you're confusing points with intervals.
I don't know. I don't do maths. 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. Perhaps
he was using day 0 for some point - I don't know, and
don't much care. It wouldn't have gone awry if it had been
made differently in the first place.

> Imagine a line divided
> into 800 sections. Each section has a beginning point and an end point,
> and each starts where the previous one ended so for 800 sections you
> have 801 marks.
Except we're not concerned with the boundaries, but with the
middle bits.

> However, if you bend the line round into a circle, then
> the first and last points coincide, so then you have 800 intervals and
> 800 points. If interval 1 runs from point (time) zero to point #1, then
> interval 2 will span points #1 -- #2 and so on until you reach interval
> 800 which sits between points #799 -- #800.  BUT, and this is the thing,
> point #800 and point zero are the same point.
Indeed. He shouldn't have brought the zero into it then. It
confuses the point and is redundant.

> Keith
> > Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
>
> "Let him be a good and loyal servant". Where did you find this?
Pryce's "Archaologica Cornu-Britannica".

> I've
> been seeing it on your posts and thinking it Breton, but now I realise that
> the <z>'s are in the wrong places, so it's some flavour of Cornish, late
> by the spelling <leal>. Current standard is probably :
> Bedhez gwas vaz ha lel although the <z>'s are controversial.
Late 18th century Cornish. Probably more like mid 18th c., since
I _think_ he copies a lot from an earlier sources. Any way, a
good book, but difficult to learn from.

Padraic.
--
Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.

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