Elardus, Friday or not (how do we measure days to know when Friday is, anyway??), I appreciate the good laugh - thanks!
Billy On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > >If I were Emperor of the Universe, I would make the rule: > > Every year divisible by 4 except one divisible by 128 is a leap year. > > Emperor! Your majesty, my precious, but you will be stopped by Darth > Vader, because he is the Force. > > If not stopped, you'll also have these problems within a year or leap-year: > > 1. Define 'year' and 'leap year'. Each planet, dwarf planet, astro, etc. > have their own definition of their equivalent of day, month, year. > > 2. Above definitions are heavily subject to the unit based on. For > example, meter (on planet earth) was defined over the years by: specific > pendulum, meridional length, prototype meter bar, number of wave-length of > a specific element, distance of light in x seconds. > > 3. Due to some planets are 'Tidal locked' to their star, some residents > don't have a definition of day or year, since they either see the star full > day/month/year or not. Some lucky residents may see the star at one point > and had to define another way of year/day. > > 4. Planets like Tatooine have a binary star system. Now, trying to > convince those ruthless bickering population to agree at what star should > they base their planet rotation so they can work out their year length. > > 5. Some residents may choose a particular star to base their year by > observation. Now which star? > > 6. Some planets may have laws prohibiting usage of 'day', 'year', etc. > Don't ask. No, don't try to think about that. > > 7. Technology! Other planets have better technology and can discard > day/month/year. Simply. No problem. > It is a probability they have better machines, z/OS is too prehistoric > to them. > > 8. Now here on crazy earth you have different measurement standards, like > centimetre or inch. Which one will prevail? > > Now imagine how you will try to convince all residents of all planets to > have ONE year easily divide-able by whatever number you use in any base > (decimal, hexadecimal, etc.) > > Ok, enough, is it Friday today... or so? ;-) > > Sorry for above mumblings - Most IBM-MAIN members are at SHARE, and I have > nothing useful to SHARE... > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
