Are there any other mathematicians on this list? The number 0 does not use any signs. It is neither positive nor negative. The year "2002" is not an interval....
Archie Medrano <amedrano@...> wrote in ... I'm a mathematics student, FWIW. ... This is correct, cf. <URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zero.html >. But...
1. You asked for the opinion of a "mathematician". I suppose I qualify (see below). 2. What you say below is essentially correct. 3. The number zero is...
... I think there's some confusion here. Ones complement (as used on the CDC machines, IIRC) is to simply invert the bits (giving two representations of zero...
Ed Davies
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May 3, 2002 9:13 am
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Why does everyone have to respond at huge length to an obvious troll? (That's a rhetorical question, in case anyone hadn't realised)....
[2002-May-06] This email MUST be viewed using a non-proportional font in order for the little diagrams to be rendered correctly. I have been following the...
On 2002-Apr-23 Jon Silver wrote(>): [2002-May-06] ... I don't have a lot of experience with Sun Unix; it would be better to post a message in a programming...
Uses cardinal number for years (-1 0 +1) so ordinal numbers (-1 +1 ) must have one subtracted from negative years 7. Conversion Algorithms ... The following...
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May 7, 2002 1:34 pm
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Hi - i thought i'd join the group. Just skimmed through the past posts but I am a little confused why people are referring to a year zero all the time. My...
... [2002-May-13] There have been two ways of counting years in recent times. One system is the BC/AD notation. There is NOT a Year Zero. Years are numbered...
[2002-May-13] Now that the ISO 8601 Group has passed the two hundred member mark, it would be nice if everyone added one or two media references to the links...
In most calendar systems, each year is identified by an integer (i.e. a whole number). The same integer number applies to the entire year and there are no...
[* Boy was I in need of a procrastination exercise... -dan *] Metrification of time was implemented during the French revolution, but (unfortunately)...
Year Zero: aha..I now understand it...and i understand the arguments 4 and against year zero now i think - IMO it is perfectly possible 4 the 2 formats to...
The next Shuttle launch to the ISS is currently scheduled for 2002-05-30. The exact time of day is a "secret" as part of the post 2001-09-11 panic but it is...
Ed Davies
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May 15, 2002 12:38 pm
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I am a member of the USMA metric list and I have a few remarks. To me metrication and international date- and time notations are related topics; this means...
Han Maenen
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May 15, 2002 6:23 pm
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[2002-May-25] Spam deleted, sender deleted: 2001/12/19 03:37 etoyshop3@... Subscribed by etoyshop3 <etoyshop3@...> via web. 2001/12/19...
I may have found a way to eliminate mm-dd-yyyy and AM/PM times from the headers of e-mails. Although my computer was set to ISO 8601, my e-mail headers were in...
... Which headers are you referring to? The Date: header is standardised, and must be in the form [Weekday,] dd Mmm yyyy hh:mm[:ss] timezone since it's...
I am referring to headers that show in the body of the messages, things like the one below: Original Messages. ... From: "Fred Bone" <fred.bone@...>...
Hi all, A team under my leadership has been putting together an implementation of ISO8601 for the Java programming language. The JodaTime project seeks to...
Following is a reply I am posting to a list regarding satellite observation which might be of interest to ISO 8601ers. I'm a bit surprised the subject hasn't...
The problem for software is the unpredictability of when leap seconds will be added. If they were added at predictable times, then software could easily ...
... If it were possible to schedule them that far in advance, doubtless either it would have been done or the definition of the second would have been adjusted...
Fred, Possibly. Sometimes the solutions you get are a function of the requirements you choose to satisfy. So Perhaps. Or perhaps the designers of the system...
... I agree - my comments below are an expansion of this point. ... That's the spirit... :-) ... This averaging out is a key point. As I understand it - the ...
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