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Subject: The numbering scheme. Author: Wade A. Tisthammer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 02/15/04 3:15pm In reply to: Damoclese 's message, "dandy" on 02/13/04 9:01pm >>> >>>How is it that by being on day 1461 and then being on >>>day 1458 implies that he finished his autobiography? >> >>Remember we're counting backwards. Day 365 is 1 year >>ago. Day 1461 is 4 years ago. So if 4 years ago he >>finished writing about the day that existed 4 years >>ago, at that point his autobiography is finished >>because he has written all the days of his life so far >>at that point. > > >Okay, but day 1461 is the total number of days passed >since he started writing converted to years. It isn't >"four years ago". It's four years worth of days he's >recorded (even though a thousand and a half years have >passed for him). No, day 1461 is 1461 days ago. The numbering scheme we're using is to count backwards. Day 365 is 365 days ago, year 1 is 1 year ago etc. Thus day 1461 is 4 years ago. So if last year (year 1) he wrote about day 1458, then 4 years ago (year 4) he was writing about day 1461 (remember, he writes about one day after the next, and each year he writes about a day). But that day was in year 4, he is at a point where he writes all the days of his past life. He thus finishes his autobiography, which is absurd. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Practicality Damoclese 02/15/04 7:33pm Actuality -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/16/04 8:07pm ? -- Damoclese, 02/16/04 9:29pm ! -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/20/04 10:43am Looking Back... -- Damoclese, 02/22/04 9:44pm Some clarifications. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/27/04 1:54pm Answer -- Damoclese, 02/27/04 3:28pm Infinity began? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/27/04 10:45pm Infinity squared -- Damoclese, 02/28/04 7:19am oops -- Damoclese, 02/28/04 7:59am Splitting unnecessary hairs. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 11:59am Giggle -- Damoclese, 03/ 5/04 3:34pm My point exactly -- Ben, 03/ 2/04 7:34am And what point would that be? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 12:03pm