On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:36 -0700, Howard Brazee wrote: > >>I'm not sure that matters; the sequence of year numbers can hardly >>be coerced to be closed. For example, if from 1912 (sinking of the >>Titanic) I subtract 1957 (dawn of the Space Age), I get -45 (the >>year Caesar proclaimed the Julian calendar). Really!? > >Caesar? > Did I misspell it? From here, it's not easy for me to type a ligature for the "ae".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar (That's the way they spell it, too.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html