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Article #81254Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
From: Noe Gutierrez Jr.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
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Michael Legner wrote: > > So where do year 0 belong then? To the century BC? In that > case I guess you would say that the number 0.1 belongs to > the interval (-9.999999..., 0.99999999...) !? I just don't > understand where this come from? I mean, year 0 is the > equivalent of 1000 and 2000. There's nothing special about > year 0 other than it appearing in two centuries (before and > after Christ, but that's because we're negating the steady > flow of time --- compare Fahrenheit to Kelvin...) > > I think each century starts with 0, 1000, 2000 and so on... > THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO!!! If you want to compare BC and AD time to a number line, zero is the infinitely small POINT between positive and negative. It is the beginning AND end of AD and DC, but it is not part of them. -- ++++++++++++ DO NOT REPLY TO no...@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us +++++++++++++ -------------- remove SPAMKILLER from the address first ---------------- ................. Noe Gutierrez, Jr., System Operator .................. ____________________ Bryan Utilities, Bryan, Texas _____________________ <<<< All opinions are those of the author and not of the employer. >>>>>
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From: "Noe Gutierrez, Jr." <no...@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us> Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?" Date: 1997/06/10 Message-ID: <339D962B.95@SPAMKILLERci.bryan.tx.us> X-Deja-AN: 247506922 References: <01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner> <5njrcp$ndc@limes.air.saab.se> To: Michael...@lin.frontec.se Organization: Bryan Utilities Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.quake,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.descent,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt,recipes.babies,alt.games.redalert,chile.futbol MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit