on 9/3/2002 10:37 PM, kilopascal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One cannot help but wonder >> which time zone God was in when he started at 9:00 a.m.)
That caused me to wonder, also, ... If year 1 ran from January to December, wouldn't the year -1 run from December to January? If the numbers run backwards on the negative side of zero, why shouldn't the fractions (months) run backward, too? The do for purely numerical fractions. When the Bishop of Usher estimated that the world was created "in the year -2004, on Monday, the 23rd day of the month of October, at 9:00 a.m.", did he mean that it occurred in the 10th month of the year -2004 or in the third month? If the months are reversed, October is the third month. Poor Bishop! He had a lot of faith but not much number sense. I wonder if he even thought of the missing year zero when he made his calculation. Regards, Bill Hooper college physics teacher (retired), USA (Florida) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Do It Easy, Do It Metric! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
