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this reminds me of what Napoleon tried to do back years ago. Change the week from 7 days to 10, as I'm told. He discovered fairly quickly that his troops fatigued substancially faster and deteriorated substancially faster...so he moved back to the old 7. I guess somewhere there's a reason for the design of why things are the way they are... Nite all.... Don in DC ------------------------------ On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Barbara Morris wrote: > Joel Fritz wrote: > > > > I think I've mentioned this before, but I still think it's a good idea. > > Move the earth's orbit so that the year is either 256 or 512 days > > exactly. There might be some side effects, but I figure if we're able > > to move the earth's orbit, we can deal with the side effects. <g> > > > > Brilliant! As part of the same change, modify the human body to have 8 > fingers on each hand so the natural base for arithmetic would be 16 > instead of 10. > > -- > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. >
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