OT: Freaky Maths Year

[Ken Cole]

Isn't all time regardless of scale arbitrary> :)

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On 1/31/2011 9:26 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
> > On 1/31/2011 5:57 PM, Ken Cole wrote:
> >> Since we regularly talk about dates and maths here:
> >>
> >> This is freaky! This year we will experience 4 unusual dates....
> >> 1/1/11, 11/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/11/11 .....
> >
> > I dislike the ones that leave out the century, and dislike the arbitrary
> > and somewhat nonsensical arranging of month and day before year etc, so
> > I like 20111102
> > or add in the time 20111111111102
> >
> > (Although I loved Heinlein centennial being 777, and just as was pointed
> > out when time_t rolled over, these are ALL just arbitrary numbers of
> > arbitrary units within arbitrary scales.)
>
> I hear that some other arbitrary scale will reach the end of its arbitrary
> units, and wrap its arbitrary numbers back to the "beginning" sometime late
> next year as measured by our arbitrary scale.  :-)
>
> --
> Kenneth Brody
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