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From: bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Happy New (Year|Decade)!
Summary: abject apology, begging for mercy
Message-ID: <C5z,e2@cs.psu.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 90 14:34:39 GMT
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In article <254@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
| In article <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu> bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) writes:
| >In article <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
| >>Wow!  I just noticed that it's the last day of both the year and the 
| >>decade.
| >
| >I hate to contradict anyone :-), especially Dave, but ...
| >Much to the chagrin of C programmers everywhere, there was no 
| >year 0 A.D., so we will have to wait 366 days to reread this
				       ^^^^^^^^
Duh... make that 365.  

| Well, my dictionary defines a decade as "a period of ten years" without
| saying anything about alignment restrictions.  Thus I guess you could
| argue that every second marks the end of SOME decade.  The ones that
| end at midnight on Dec 31st, of years ending in 9 are probably the
| most celebrated ones.  :-)

Ouch! Ouch!  Ok, OK, I give up!!!  Happy New Decade everybody!
That'll teach me to shoot my fingers off!  Now back to your
regularly scheduled program :-)

Regards,
-- 
Will Bralick                          |  ... when princes think more of
     bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu       |  luxury than of arms, they lose
     bralick@gondor.cs.psu.edu        |  their state.
with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |             - Niccolo Machiavelli