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To: Tomato who wrote (8487)1/19/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: ToolManInc  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
Dear Cassius,
>
> Are you still working on the Y-zero-K problem?
>
> This change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't
> much time left.
>
> I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way around.
> Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start
> thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it
> earlier and not left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute. I
> spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't done
> something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he
> could see why Brutus turned nasty.
>
> We called in the consulting astrologers, but they simply said that
> continuing downwards using minus BC won't work. As usual, the
> consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. As for myself,
> I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards.
>
> We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who have been
> working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive until it's
> all over. Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of
> transition.
>
> Anyway we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem
> and I will send you a parchment if anything further develops.
>
> Vale,
> Plutonius
>
>
>
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