From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 5 8:54:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD35152FB for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 08:54:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA89872; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:53:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:53:25 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Mark Ovens Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , "Kenneth D. Merry" , dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? In-Reply-To: <19991205123358.C325@marder-1> 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 Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:20:58AM -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > They did not even have a Roman numeral for 0. > > > > One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was > that, lacking zero, they had no way of indicating the > successful termination of their C programs. > -- Anon. fortune(6) credits this to Robert Firth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message