✧✦Catherine✦✧i think years 1-99 should be called the 0th Century. this will improve everything date related
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niconiconi@whitequark "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
mal3aby@niconiconi @whitequark In my head I read this as "... their hundred programs", and was puzzled for a moment!
Artyom Bologov@niconiconi @whitequark VII error: success!
aburka 🫣@niconiconi @whitequark imagine how long their strings were
ariels@niconiconi @whitequark Archaeologists are still trying to reproduce their first five editors by reverse engineering their sixth editor #vi .
Colin Beveridge@niconiconi @whitequark C++, or as the Romans called it, 101.
So many dynamos@whitequark We could reckon years according to the Holocene calendar, which just adds 10000 to the Gregorian year number, so that the century designations would just all be incremented by a hundred
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What Day Is It, Really?
@Zerofactorial love this
@whitequark I think you could get more people on board with calling the beginning of human time the invention of agriculture than with the Year of our Lord. And if the year is 12026 then the pandemic of 12020 seems like practically earlier this morning, which it was
Leo (he/him) 🇺🇦@whitequark Welcome back to the 20th Century! 😅
SnowFox@whitequark And renumber the years to be 0-indexed.
Colin@whitequark Zero indexing is obviously superior. This is what happens when you don't teach people about arrays.
anyMouse@whitequark I think that first of all years 1-99 should be called years 0-98.
"1 B.C. - 1 A.D. is just two years" - statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged