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Greg Hennessy said:
Dennis McCarthy once forwarded me an english translation of the
Inter gravissimas,
http://www.bluewaterarts.com/calendar/NewInterGravissimas.htm
and it is utterly silent as to what to call the
year before 1 AD.
Indeed, it says nothing about how years are numbered, but
Indeed, it says nothing about how years are numbered, but assumes everyone
already knows.
Those assumptions can bite you every time.
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Matsakis, Demetrios demetrios.matsa...@usno.navy.mil wrote:
Not my issue, but the last day of the 20th century is technically
December 31, 2000. I wish it weren't. When this controversy passed in
1701, Isaac Newton is quoted has having rejoiced that the issue was
finally behind us.
Century
Because Roman reckoning did not include a zero, the leap year in Julius
Caesar's calendar was miscalculated. They instituted a leap year ever 3 years
rather than every four because the 1st and 4th year of the cycle were
considered the same (a fence post error). Augustus corrected this error
In message cefc056f.7cac%kevin.bi...@qc.cuny.edu, Kevin Birth writes:
Kevin,
Do you happen to know if the church actually did ban negative numbers
for some period of time ?
I've seen several popular references claim that the church banned
negative numbers as the devils numbers etc, but I've not
E. G. Richards in Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History mentions the
church was leary of negative numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. He suggests
one possible reason being that most of the people who could do arithmetic
with Roman numerals were clergy, and they didn't want to lose their
On Wed 2014-01-15T12:00:47 -0500, Gerard Ashton hath writ:
E. G. Richards in Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History mentions the
church was leary of negative numbers, and Hindu-Arabic numerals. He suggests
one possible reason being that most of the people who could do arithmetic
with Roman
In message alpine.lrh.2.00.1401151224330.20...@nadreck.tuc.noao.edu, Richard
Clark writes:
I've always liked the view that the first century spanned the years 1-99.
Yes, the appeal is obvious, apart from that pescy detail of century
meaning hundred...
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Richard Clark writes:
I've always liked the view that the first century spanned the years 1-99.
Poul-Henning Kamp replies:
Yes, the appeal is obvious, apart from that pescy detail of “century meaning
hundred...
Richard had already rendered objection moot:
The current year numbering
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message alpine.lrh.2.00.1401151224330.20...@nadreck.tuc.noao.edu, Richard
Clark writes:
I've always liked the view that the first century spanned the years 1-99.
Yes, the appeal is obvious, apart from that pescy detail of century
meaning
On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Richard Clark rcl...@noao.edu wrote:
Also centipedes don't have exactly 100 legs.
…though they’ll typically have an even number ;-)
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Our librarian has assigned the Library of Congress classification QB213 .R4
2013 to the proceedings of “Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on
Earth” (ISBN 978-0-87703-603-6, http://futureofutc.org/preprints/). Looking on
the shelf, this is next to the proceedings for IAU Symposium 11,
On Wed 2014-01-15T16:56:20 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
Both volumes contain transcriptions of discussions during the
meetings. On p. 35 of the IAU #11 volume we have this harbinger of
things to come (following G. M. Clemence
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1959AJ.64..113C
Following L.
Rob,
Glad you got a chance to read that volume. I thought Steve and I were the only
ones who spent time reading the history of atomic timescales over the last
century. It's really quite fascinating, if you have the time.
“Dr. STOYKO commented that even though the atomic standard is not a
On Thu 2014-01-16T06:55:00 +, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
What *has* been proposed, where I have seen it, is to remove
leap-seconds, and leave the keep civil time in sync with the sun
up to local governments who can mess with their timezones as they
see fit.
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