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Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T16:40:17Z

Arguably, it would have been the Pope's system, not the man's, unless
Ugo is remembered as having worked it out himself in his spare time.

Can anyone other than Brad Guth respond here?

2010-03-11T16:10:00Z

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Re: Base 10 logarithms are evil

2010-03-11T16:08:17Z

On Mar 11, 1:33 am, "Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr."
Not so. [link] - no
base 10 there!
Andrew Usher

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T16:04:05Z

In English.
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Des plus brillants exploits.
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Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-10T14:57:53Z

None to abbreviate "anno XYZ", at any rate, which is why I carefully
didn't ask what initials he used, but what the initials were of the name
that he used. (-:
"Anno Domini" itself didn't appear until much later. Not only (as
stated in another message) was Dionysius Exiguus' system not actually

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T15:40:46Z

The Wikipedia page on it implies that both "Christian era" and "common
era" go back at least to the seventeenth century, the latter
originally being "vulgar era" and distinguishing the dating system
from regnal dates (e.g., "in the fourth year of the reign of ...")
Hey, if Jesus could be born four years before himself, why couldn't he

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T12:59:04Z

I vote for Woody Guthrie's....

EINSTEIN EXERCISING HIMSELF IN CRIMESTOP

2010-03-11T12:51:36Z

[link]
George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T12:25:57Z

On Mar 10, 9:57 am, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-
(a) What does Orthodox Judaism care about Christ's circumcision, and
(b) It doesn't do anything of the sort. The year number changes on
Rosh Hashanah.

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-11T11:57:26Z

No, BCE/CE are exact substitutes for BC/AD.
Andrew Usher

THIS MESSAGE TRAVELED LIGHT YEARS TO GET HERE . . .

2010-03-11T11:47:18Z

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Apparently, Ed Conrad's postings about the incredible deceit,
deception, collusion and conspiracy in science
(the absolute absurdity of man's evolution) , medicine (not even
trying to find a cancer cure), the Bush administration (911 and two
wars that should've never been fought) has caught the attention of at

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-10T14:57:49Z

No. "AAID", for "anno ab Incarnatione Domini".
Here's another interesting note: Whilst Dionysius measured from Christ's
conception (taking it to be March the 25th), and Venerable Bede
(initially, before later switching to September) measured from Christ's
birth (taken to be exactly nine months later), the modern A.D. system

Re: The perpetual calendar

2010-03-10T13:20:11Z

That principle is asserted by freemasons, and masons have come under
fire, and been driven from various religions, because of it.

Re: HOW BLATANTLY EINSTEINIANS CAN LIE

2010-03-11T07:40:39Z

More doublethink in Einsteiniana:
John Norton, a subtle practitioner of doublethink, referring to the
truth as "the consensus in physics":
[link]
"General relativity knits together space, time and gravity.
Confounding all common sense, how time passes in Einstein's universe

Re: Base 10 logarithms are evil

2010-03-11T07:33:22Z

The very first tables of logarithms and logarithmic rulers were
published/manufactured for engineers in order to help in multiplying
decimal numbers. They were in base 10.