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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:16:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:16:21 +0100, Pancho wrote:

> On 9/30/24 23:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:45:45 +0100, Pancho wrote:
>> 
>>> One assumes time is well ordered, so even if I don't know what the
>>> least century is, I know there was one.
>> 
>> Integers are well ordered, but there is no least integer.
>> 
>> 
> No they aren't, precisely because the don't have a least integer.
> Perhaps you are confusing having a total ordering with well ordered?

You were the one who used the term “well ordered”, and then said that, 
because of this, there had to be a least century.

>> All we want, I think, is a zero point far enough back that there is
>> less real-world need to deal with negative time points.
> 
> That is basically what well-ordered implies. Obviously I was
> bullshitting as I have no idea if time is totally-ordered, let alone
> well ordered :-).

Einstein’s Special Relativity says time is not totally ordered, 
unfortunately ...