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Also: "Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of
by Biganon 5y ago
Also: "Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (22 September 1863 – 1 March 1943) was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis."
- kragen 5y agoOoh, that's pretty important! And that was in 01894. I've probably omitted lots of important things like that.
- stavros 5y agoYour octal year notation is very much throwing me off.
- pluies 5y agoThat's the notation adopted by the Long Now Foundation (https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/) rather than octal, I believe
- stavros 5y agoAh, thank you, I was wondering.
- inglor_cz 5y agoMe too. It is interesting how such a small anomaly in writing can be so annoying and disruptive to the smooth flow of reading.
- stavros 5y agoMy thoughts exactly, I couldn't believe how completely I failed to parse these as dates just because of a tiny leading zero. I guess it's because dates aren't numbers any more, but names. It would be like adding an "O" in front of every name, like "Ojohn", "Omary".
- kragen 5y agoLike the Hackaday blog, [stavros]? On some other fora people use @: @stavros. The powerful effect of such small things can be very thought-provoking. Interestingly, it's true for me too, even though I've been trying this Long Now date format experiment for a year or so now. I just had to stop myself from writing the Intel 8080 as "08080", suggesting that I'm mentally parsing these dates as "0 1774" and the like.