March topic(s) for BLU

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:17:19 -0500
"Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed; it isn't a us vs yous fight I want here. In the uk we would
> say 21st March 2007 and thus shortened to 21/03/2007; but I wouldn't
> use that date form here because it's ambiguous  to us people. instead
> the iso date format allows dates to be read by anyone in the world
> including mathematicians.
Not true. A mathematician wants something like 1172873948.0547. :-)


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