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Dear Cassius,
Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change from BC to AD
is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. I don't
know how people will cope with working the wrong way around. Having
been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking
upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier
and not left it to us to sort out at the last minute.
I spoke to Caesar the other evening. He was livid that Julius hadn't
done something about it when he was sorting out the calendar. He said he
could see why Brutus turned nasty. We called in the consulting
astrologers, but they simply said that continuing downwards using minus
BC won't work. As usual, the consultants charged a fortune for doing
nothing useful. As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an
hourglass flowing upwards.
We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on the
problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over. Some
say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. Anyway we
are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem and I will send
you a parchment if anything further develops.
Plutonius.