Why does "cal 9 1752" produce incorrect results?

Lars Henrik Mathiesen thorinn at rimfaxe.diku.dk
Wed Nov 28 21:34:55 AEST 1990


kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:

>Daniel Boorstin, in his book "Discoverers" mentions that American
>landlords wanted the full months rent for that September, while all the
>tenents wanted to pay only two weeks rent.  Can't imagine why?

Probably because they only got two weeks' pay.

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Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark      [uunet!]mcsun!diku!thorinn
Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers.      thorinn at diku.dk



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