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1,3k years ago is such a weird way to write it. Makes sense if we are talking millions of years, but why not write "in 700" or just "1300 years ago"
by saltmate 5mo ago
1,3k years ago is such a weird way to write it. Makes sense if we are talking millions of years, but why not write "in 700" or just "1300 years ago"
- pegasus 5mo agoYeah, I felt the same. Especially since 1300 uses the same numbers of characters as 1.3k
- ezequiel-garzon 5mo agoProbably they mean to convey significant digits, though I feel it's safe to assume people would read "1300" as an approximation, not pointing to the year 726. I found it odd too. Edit: "The newly-discovered manuscript in the National Central Library of Rome of Caedmon’s Hymn dates from between the years 800 and 830, making it the third oldest surviving text of the poem." So... 1.2k then?
- dotancohen 5mo agoAnother commentator mentions that the poem may have been published 1200 years ago, but authored much earlier.
- dghf 5mo agoThe manuscript is ~1200 years old, but the poem was composed earlier. The Venerable Bede, who died in 735, includes it and the story of its composition in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People: according to that story, it was composed while Saint Hilda was abbess of Whitby, c.660-680.
- electroglyph 5mo agoit was 1.3e-6 billion years ago!
- Ekaros 5mo agoCentury would be plenty. And having Rome mentioned with some weird negative number leads to first thought being English in Roman era? How does this deduct...
- toyg 5mo agoThe title is from the HN user, the actual post uses 1,300 everywhere. So you can write it down to tech brainrot.
- badc0ffee 5mo agoProbably a German or French speaker forgetting that , is never a valid decimal separator in English.
- ConfuSomu 5mo agoMost countries use the decimal comma, including English in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...