Y zero K and the Q-list?

["Doyt W. Echelberger" <Doyt@nwonline.net>]

Here it is, the historical basis of the YK2 problem that Phil Payne was
concerned about. This is how it all started:

The following was discovered in a recent archeological site
outside the
Vatican in Rome. It is reproduced here in its entirety for your
information:

Dear Cassius,

Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?  This change from BC to AD
is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left.  I don't know
how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having been working
happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would
think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left it to us to
sort it all out at this last minute.

I spoke to Caesar the other evening.  He was livid that Julius hadn't
done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar.  He said he
could see why Brutus turned nasty.  We called in the consulting
astrologers, but
they simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work.  As
usual, the consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. As for
myself, I just  can't see the sand in an hour glass flowing up.

We have heard that
there are three wise men in the East who have been working on the problem,
but unfortunately they won't arrive until it's all over.  Some say the world
will cease to exist at the moment of transition. Anyway we are still
continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem and I will send you a
parchment if anything further develops.

Vale. Plutonius

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Mandatory Audi content: I need some humor to carry me through all the
grinding wheel bearings and foaming hydraulic accumulators, and maybe you
all will appreciate this one as much as I did. And it ties right in with
what Phil was talking about...right?

Doyt Echelberger
86 4kq
87 5kcstq

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Phil Payne wrote:
>I apologise for the waste of bandwidth, but such a slur cannot go
>uncorrected.  From CEEFAX, seconds ago:


            P342  CEEFAX 2 342 Sat 30 Jan 00:46/49

           ONE DAY INTERNATIONAL, Perth       1/3
           Mark Ealham blitzed Sri Lanka with a
           five-wicket haul as England stormed to
           a crushing 128-run victory.
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