[H-GEN] Opps Y2K Bug in Linux (Not really)

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Anthony,

> Bah, I don't get you people.
>
> We work for years to get people to accept counting from 0, and when
> they finally do, we tell them they're wrong because some priests and
> sheep worriers from the middle ages who'd probably never even *seen*
> a computer thought otherwise? Ha. Ha I say!
>
> It's time to correct the mistakes of the past, and retroactively start
> numbering our years from 0.

I find this intriguing too.  If you have a sheep worrier from the middle
ages that has to worry about a undred sheep, and 99 of them get abducted by
a UFO, then that leaves just one sheep.  If that sheep has a heart attack at
the idea of no longer being able to follow all the other sheep, then that
leaves ZERO sheep.  Hence, these middle ages sheep worriers, priests and
associated followers and associates actually DID know about zero, but must
have decided to ignore it because zero is worth nothing.

Weren't there punch-card readers available back then anyway?  At least an
abacus?

Regards,
Hilton


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