mr Jose Mario Quintana remarks that stopwaches and odometers are 0-origin
devices. Today is the 24th day in the 5th month in the 2018th year. The ordinal
numbers begin at "first". But a stopwatch would show that 2017 years, 4 months
and 23 days have passed. Cardinal numbers begin at zero. A J index shows how
many array elements are skipped. This cardinal number is confused with the
ordinal number of the element. Centuries, decades, years, months and days may
be individually adressed by ordinal fractions. ORDINAL FRACTIONS - the algebra
of data. Thanks. Bo.
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ORDINAL FRACTIONS - the algebra of data
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Den 1:12 torsdag den 24. maj 2018 skrev Jose Mario Quintana
<[email protected]>:
Forgive me but I find the present situation funny because, taken literally,
one should conclude that currently "It is not yet considered ready to be
promoted as a complete task, for reasons that" cannot be found.
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed: you could create that talk page, if you felt that that was a
> good thing. Or, I could. Or anyone else who has registered on that
> site could.
>
> Meanwhile, "draft" means "the task description might change if people
> find significant problems with the current description". That does not
> seem likely to happen in this case, but it's not like I have never
> been wrong...
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Jose Mario Quintana
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Speaking of which, we don't yet have a J entry for
> >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
> >
> > There is a box on that page stating:
> >
> > French Republican calendar is a draft programming task. It is not yet
> > considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that
> should
> > be found in its talk page.
> >
> > Hovering on "talk page" the following text pops up:
> >
> > Talk:French Republican calendar (page does not exist)
> >
> > :D
> >
>
>
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