From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 04:02:05 MST
Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> At 09:02 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Spike wrote:
>
> >an old problem: the century naming convention. the 17th century is the
> >16 hundreds. thats made me crazy since forever
>
> I'm planning to renumber the years, after my coup, from the agricultural
> revolution (call it 8000 BC), to get rid of all those poor people living
> backwards: e.g. Plato/Platon, b. 428, d. 348.
So we are approaching the year 10,000? Wow, not just a millennial
celebration then! :-)
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