Re: At Last! The voice of Reason!

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From: d... David Shepherd
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 14:02

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In article <14...@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> gmcd...@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:
>If you had 30 cents you have 0 full dollars but be on your first dollar.
>Similarly for years, on 30 Jun 1 AD ,you have went through 0 full years but are
>	on your first year in the calendar.

To slightly change the subject this reminds me of an inconsistency in
the "everything starts a zero" people. An arch-proponent of this is
Edsger Dykstra who insists on making statements of the form

	"firstly zero"

which always struck me as a bit strange.

david shepherd
INMOS ltd

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From: d...@elberton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: At Last!  The voice of Reason!
Keywords: Decade,bean counters
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Date: 15 Jan 90 14:02:32 GMT
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