To: Cassius
From: Plutonius
Copy: Geoff Cooper
Subject: Y Zero K Problem
Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change from B.C. to
A.D. is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven’t much time left. I
don’t know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking
upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and
not left it to us to sort it all out at this last minute.
I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn’t done
something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he could
see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in Consultus, but he simply said
that continuing downwards using minus B.C won’t work and as usual charged
a fortune for doing nothing useful. Surely we will not have to throw out
all our hardware and start again? Macrohard will make yet another fortune
out of this I suppose.
The moneylenders are paranoid of course! They have been told that all
usury rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take
out loans. It’s an ill wind....
As for myself, I just can’t see the sand in an hourglass flowing
upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the East who have
been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won’t arrive until
it’s all over.
I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at the
turn of the year, as there are fears that they will stop and try to run
backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of life.
Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition.
Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem.
I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops.
If you have any ideas please let me know,
Plutonius
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