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Re: [r6rs-discuss] [Scheme-reports] Date and time arithmetic library proposal for R7RS large Scheme

To: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb@x>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] [Scheme-reports] Date and time arithmetic library proposal for R7RS large Scheme
From: John Cowan <cowan@x>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:32:57 -0500
Cc: Christopher Chittleborough <cchittleborough@x>, discuss@x, scheme-reports@x, scheme-reports-wg2@x
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG scripsit:

> I think it's confusing to call this "century", since it's one off from
> the ordinal number of the century. Perhaps "hundreds" or something
> that is more digity sounding?

The term is ISO's, as is the chronology.

In any case, languages differ: in Italian the 15th century is called
the Quattrocento, and even in English we can say "the 1400s".

-- 
                Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.

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