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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:02:34 -0400
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On 4/15/25 18:58, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:06:55 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
> 
>> On 4/15/25 00:11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's why there's a range of possible dates ...
> 
> No, there is no date that fits the claimed historical references.

That's the norm, not the exception, for events that obscure which
happened that long ago. A historian who insisted that every date be
consistent with every possible source before he could talk about an
event that supposedly happened on that date would have very little to
talk about prior to about 1800.