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Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Friday, January 4, 2002, 21:24
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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