How about 2/2/2000, or don't you count zero as even. George apparently did,
or otherwise, 1/1/3000 would qualify as earlier than 1/2/3111, provided you
accept that if an integer is not even, it is odd. Then again, maybe you
would maintain that zero is neither odd nor even, which would ruin a lot of
modern mathematics. On the other hand, a lot of those people who recorded
and calculated with Roman numerals in medieval times, might have resisted
the thought that zero is even a number, and got it confused with nothing.
However, having confused it with nothing, they wouldn't have confused it
with anything (think about it), unless of course nothing is something. Now
about vacuums in medieval times, which also sometimes got confused with
nothing, where nothing cannot exist in plenums ..... or, the heck with it
.....
Gordon Fisher [log in to unmask]
At 03:36 PM 11/19/99 +0000, Dr Ian G Tompkins wrote:
>But then there has been no even numbered day since 8/8/888 and won't be
>again until 2/2/2222, a gap of over 1,333 years, as opposed to a gap of
>just over 1,111 years.
>
>Ian T.
>
>
>At 15:24 19/11/99 America/Knox_IN, you wrote:
>>George FERZOCO wrote:
>>
>>>To prove that I have gone completely insane,
>>
>>No proof necessary, G., ontological, epistomological, horological,
>>astrological, or numerological.
>>
>>Leastwise, not on *this* list.
>>
>>>I share this with you:
>>>Today - Friday, 19/11/1999 - will be the last day that has all odd
>>digits in its date until 1/1/3111.
>>
>>>Would this sort of information have mattered to someone in the good
>>old Middle Ages?
>>
>>I'd say: "NO. Not in the slightest."
>>
>>Or, at least, in my experience, the question of George Ferzoco's insanity is
>>rarely mentioned in eleventh and twelfth century charters from the
diocese of
>>Chartres.
>>
>>Of course, others must speak from their own areas of expertise.
>>
>>The *real* question is: how did you come up with such an observation?
>>
>>Don't you have anything to *DO"?
>
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