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From: mgo@inel.gov (Marcos Ortiz)
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Subject: Three days!
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	When I count I also get two.  However, I have been
	told that it says "on the third day" and not in 72 hours.

	Marcos

[Right.  It's a question of what you mean by "in N days".  We're used
to units conversions, like 12 inch = 1 ft, 3 ft = yd, etc., so we tend
to go 3 days = 72 hours.  Ancients weren't using day as a unit of
measure equal to 24 hours.  They just counted days.  Friday, Saturday,
Sunday.  That's three days.  At least that's the impression I've
gotten from my reading.  --clh]