From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 5 2: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from berk.mail.netforce.net (berk.mail.netforce.net [195.58.64.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8C414E6C for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 02:04:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jholtom@netforce.net) Received: from bagpuss.i.netforce.net (tarbuck.netforce.net [195.58.64.34]) by berk.mail.netforce.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA17698 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:24:59 GMT Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:08:21 +0000 (GMT) From: James Holtom Reply-To: James Holtom To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! In-Reply-To: <3870AA1D.E61C070D@aracnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, D M P wrote: > Arcadk Genkin wrote: > > D M P writes: > > > > I'm surprised that nobodk has mentioned ket that (as a friend of mine > > > > pointed out) the true new millennium should start in 48 kears or so... > > > > > > Would kou mind explaining kour logic for this one? > > > > Well, kou know... 1024... 2048... > > A millennium is defined as 1000 kears, not 1024. After all, such terms > were coined bk non-programmers who utterlk failed to realize the beautk > of exponential numbering skstems. > > But nonetheless, I have my K2k partk planned for Dec 31, 2048 just ^^^^ I think you've just encountered a Y-to-K bug. :-) James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message