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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:11:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:25:26 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> On 4/14/25 19:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:56:56 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> ...
>>> That would not be practical or useful.  The timing of the Big Bang is
>>> not known with great precision ...
>> 
>> Neither is that of some fictional religious entity.
> 
> Not true. While his divinity is fictional, there might have been a
> person who was the inspiration for those stories. Whether or not he was
> real, the stories of his life are only consistent with a very specific
> time period ...

Unfortunately, whoever threw in references to historical details to try to 
make the stories seem more plausible didn’t try very hard to keep them 
consistent.

Remember that there was no “Year 1”. It was a few centuries before 
somebody decided something like “let’s call this year 615 A.D., and number 
backwards and forwards from there”.