Y-Zero-K problem
Posted by: tz8cy5 <tz8cy5@...>
Dear Cassius,
Are you still working on the Y-zero-K problem? This
change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches
and we haven't much time left. I don't know how people
will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
been working happily downwards forever, now we have
to start thinking upwards. You would think that someone
would have thought of it earlier and not left it to us to
sort it all out at this last minute.
I spoke to Agustus Caesar the other evening. He was
livid that Julius hadn't done something about it when he
was sorting out the calendar. He said he could see why
Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting
astrologers, but they simply said that continuing
downwards using minus BC won't work. As usual, the
consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.
As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hour glass
flowing upwards. We have heard that there are three wise
men in the East who have been working on the problem,
but unfortunately they won't arrive until it's all over. Some
say the world will cease to exist at the moment of
transition. Anyway we are still continuing to work on this
blasted Y-zero-K problem, and I will send you a
parchment if anything further develops.
I fear that even if we solve this problem, the Y1K problem
could cause the Dark Ages in a thousand years.
Vale. Plutonius
Pricus Aqua-house