From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 4 11:23:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.grobin.org (grobin.org [209.161.250.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468CF14E7C for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@grobin.org) Received: by falcon.grobin.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B857514B; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:22:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by falcon.grobin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2203F3; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:22:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:22:52 -0500 (EST) From: Geoffrey Robinson To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? In-Reply-To: <199912040725.AAA62727@panzer.kdm.org> 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 Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > G. Adam Stanislav wrote... > > At 15:20 03-12-1999 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > >> not expect anything to happen throughout the year 2000. Or, that I was the > > >> only one who knows that Y2K = year 2048. > > > > > >Don't you mean 2049? :) > > > > No, I don't. Unless they changed powers of 2 and I missed it. :-) > > Just as the new millennium starts in 2001 because the years were numbered > starting at 1 (1 + 2000 == 2001), 1 + 2048 == 2049. Actually ((1 + 2000) / 1000) * 1024 = 2049.024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Geoffrey Robinson - geoff@grobin.org | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fortune Quote Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message