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From: jimp on 23 Feb 2010 19:53 In sci.physics Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > j...(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >> >> I suspect that you could find people celebrating Pesach, Purim, Rosh >> >> Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in as many countries as any four Christian >> >> holidays. >> > >> > Well, yes, but not _more people_. >> > >> > Andrew Usher >> >> With roughly 1.3 billion Chinese alone, New Years is celebrated by a LOT >> more people. > > New Year is not among the holidays Kirshenbaum mentioned. I exclude it > from my consideration as by its nature it can't be fixed to a > particular day of the week. > > Andrew Usher Neither can most holidays. The original issues were international and total recognition. New Years is the only holiday that is recognized by virtually every culture and nation and is obsevered by more people than any other. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 20:07 António Marques wrote: > >> Well, I'm astounded. Indexing from 0 is so obviously the Right Way > >> that I can't imagine why anyone would do it the other way. > >> > > You always count items starting with 0? > > It's a matter of stupid perspective. Since the array's position is the > 'first', the 'first' element's position is the array's ('first') plus 0. > First plus 0 = first! Indeed, indexing is not the same thing as counting. If I were creating a non-computer _indexing_ system, I would start from 0 as well. Andrew Usher
From: Robert Bannister on 23 Feb 2010 20:12 Adam Funk wrote: > On 2010-02-23, António Marques wrote: > >> "Roman Catholic" ISN'T AN OFFICIAL SELF-DESIGNATION. ANYWHERE. > > Are you going to write to all the churches in the UK with "St ____'s > Roman Catholic Church" or "St ____'s R. C. Church" on their signs, > newsletters, websites, etc., to tell them that they are wrong? (I > think this is common in much of the USA too.) I won't try to claim such signs don't exist, but I don't remember ever seeing one. The only way I can tell a church is RC is by the architecture and usually by the name (saint I've never heard of or long-winded way of saying Mary). -- Rob Bannister
From: Robert Bannister on 23 Feb 2010 20:14 Ant�nio Marques wrote: > It's not what you think. Either the Church's message is universal and > Christ did found one Church, or it isn't. Now there's a new one: the first I've heard that Jesus founded or even wanted a church. -- Rob Bannister
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 20:22
Mike Barnes wrote: > It's not a matter of true or false. The start of the week is a > perception, not a fact. Different people have different perceptions. If > you appear not to recognise this, you risk being thought a crank. You can define the week any way you want, but the historical seven-day week begins on Sunday. If you use Monday, you are defining a different week. Andrew Usher |