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> mangle Joseph Justus Scaliger and Julius Caesar together and try to take the average Such a person actually existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Ca
by marssaxman 8mo ago
> mangle Joseph Justus Scaliger and Julius Caesar together and try to take the average
Such a person actually existed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_Scaliger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_Scaliger
This sheds no light on the mystery of "Julius Scalier", of course, but it amused me.
- MarkusQ 8mo agoRight, I know he existed. But what is he doing in this article? I'm loath to cry "LLM!" but this seems like a really weird error for a human to make. Sort of like getting Babe Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Lindbergh Baby confused in your head.
- pseudohadamard 8mo agoCould just be sloppy writing. The first instance that grabbed me was "The Julian Date simply counts the number of days from an arbitrary remote reference point", it's not arbitrary, it was chosen specifically because three major time cycles, solar, lunar, and the other one, all coincide at that point.