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To: Scrapps who wrote (16566)	7/7/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: WebDrone	Respond to of 22053

Cockamamie. Every mathematician and computer scientist knows how to deal with the ring modulus arithmetic of the year 2000- "If age is less than zero, age=age +100 " say you were born in 1990. in 2010, your age is 2010-1990 = 20. in Y2k lingo 10-90 = -80. Oops! Negative age, so add 100 = 20. The Y2k problem is that most of the accounting crap is written in cobol, and the dates are treated as text, not numbers. Then business drone programmers write routines that say "if converted age is negative, notify the operator of an input error, and tell them to try inputing the improper date again." or even worse. The Problem is, the code is so huge and sloppy, nobody knows where all the date checking code lives- it's all over in 20 year old code. I'm starting to think that Y2k is the biggest scam going. What is a Y2k firm going to do for income in 2001? IBM and Oracle, I know what they'll be doing, these little panic shops... LOL. Me- I'm counting on taking the year 2000 easy- So an accounting system can't figure out my age for a year. Big deal. Gotta go watch my AAPL today... it'll be an interesting week or two. Anyone care to comment on today's 3com action? I must admit I am trading coms on the up cycles, and am out now, waiting for... $26 and some? Comments? R.