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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:04:44 -0700
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On 4/15/2025 3:56 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> [...]
>> The point is, the uncertainty in the date of his birth, whether
>> fictional or real, is far less than the 59 million year uncertainty in
>> the date of the Big Bang. In order for it to be comparably uncertain, we
>> would have to be unsure whether he was incarnated in the Mesozoic or
>> Cenozoic eras.
> [...]
> 
> None of that is relevant.
> 
> The uncertainty in the timing of the Big Bang and the birth of Christ
> are relevant to cosmologists, historians, and religious scholars, not
> to programmers who don't happen to be working in any of those fields.

The strange part is that some people think that Jesus just might be a 
hyper interesting experiment, whatever... Perhaps Mary got abducted by 
something from another world, dimension, ect... Shit happens. Or some 
shit like that crap. I just don't know. Perhaps his divine powers were 
real, as part of said experiment?



> 
> The uncertainty in the timing of January 1, 1970, where 1970 is a
> year number in the current almost universally accepted Gregorian
> calendar, is essentially zero.  Same for any other less commonly
> used chosen epoch.  The fact that the number 1970 is arbitrary
> is not a problem for software.  In fact it's an advantage, since
> there's no uncertainty in the presence of any new information.
>