Subject: Re: Really Abitrary Points<br/>
Date: Dec 07, 2001 @ 10:50<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-690221685">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood &lt;bronto@p...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; acroorca2002 wrote:<br/>
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&gt; &gt; & when doing cross chronologies of say the christian & roman calendars<br/>
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&gt; &gt; one must be careful to omit the year zero & pass directly from the year 1<br/>
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&gt; &gt; bce to the year 1 ce or vice versa<br/>
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&gt; I sometimes wonder why historians use BC rather than Roman years.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>evidently for the same reason we dont normally switch for no reason from fahrenheit when above freezing to centigrade when below or vice versa <br/>
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to continue with the also mismatched original thermometer example<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; If Tolkien characters can cope with having year 1 follow year 3021,<br/>
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&gt; we ought to be able to handle 1 following 753.<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>well did you know this morning already begins bp year 1 & a half aka our first multiantipodes day or sesquianniversary & we have scarcely yesterday invented split 4 & a half & 3 & a half points so we ought to be able to handle it but clearly this kind of stuff isnt for everybody<br/>
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