Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:21:00PM -0500, Padraic Brown wrote:
> 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.
>
I think you're confusing points with intervals. 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. 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.

See, logical, anyway, The Turtle Moves!!!

Keith

> > Anton Sherwood
>
> Padraic.
> --
> Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
"Let him be a good and loyal servant". Where did you find this? 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.

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