Millenium Y 2 K it all happened before you know? 2000 Years ago

Let me whisk you all back 2000 odd years

lets take a peek into a Roman officer's intray

we might well have read something like 

THIS

Imperial Palace, Rome
January 18, 1 B.C.

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 out at the last minute.

I spoke to Emperor Augustus 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 hourglass flowing upwards.

We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on the
problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over. Some
say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.  Anyway
we are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem and I will
send you a parchment if anything further develops.

Regards,

Plutonius

Pondering on the FUTURE: Year 2000 Plus Y2K etc What happened?

Some reflections 17 years ago (6 Years Prior to Y2K)

Well its been over 2000 years since the Romans offered

us the I, II, III, IV etc, but as you all know these forms 

of numerical indentity do not easily "parse" in computer terms

so, taking this into consideration, I have designed
an easy solution to the problem, which I intend to offer to 

the European union the Esperanto society 

and any other sensible? body.

Let me outline the changes I am proposing to avoid confusion in the numbers game.

Starting from NOTHING, so its easy for computer programmers to understand we get ...

ZEO, WON, TWO, THE, FOR, FIV, SIX, SEV, ATE, NIE. 

 0       1       2       3       4       5      6      7       8       9

You will of course notice that each has 3 characters only, this makes the
computer tables much easier to organise for example in a calender.

Now we come to the more complicated business of larger numbers, no longer will the teens be alone, they will take their place like the rest of the TEN's in the 20's, 30,s etc, so you will get statements like 

WONTZEO = TEN     or using the alternate form  TEN
WONTWON = ELEVEN      or      TENTWON

                    through to-                       

WONTNIE = NINTEEN    or    TENTNIE

Then

TWOTTWO, THETTHE, FORTFOR, FIVTFIV, SIXTSIX, SEVTSEV, ATETATE, NIETNIE  etc.

I'm sure you are begining to see how much easier it will all be for young people when they first get introduced to numbers, and especially for computer programers who have far less data TYPES to consider.

Right, where do we go from here then ? well next comes the bigger units like

HUN, THO, MIL etc, all again three characters so easier to spell and understand
for the computer programmer!

Again the construction is simple and easy understood by computer programmers.

Its WONTHUNTNIE for 109
Its THETHUNTSIX for 306

etc
etc

Going on to ..

TWOTTHOTFORTHUNTSIXTATE for 2468 

I'm sure we all appreciate that !

Please read this bulletin and make sure you learn its message NOW as after
1996 that could be the way we will ALL have to write ... If the EUrocrats
have their say...Yes even computer programmers will have to learn to count.


This was written in 1994 in advance of the impending threat of major changes to be brought in the 1996 European summit

(C) Nando ONETNIETHUNTNIETFOR