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>Translated from a Latin scroll dated 2BC
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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 this 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 Consultus, but he
>simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC won't work and as
>usual charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.  Surely we will not
>have to throw out all our hardware and start again?
>
>Macrohard will make yet another fortune out of this I suppose.  The
>money lenders are paranoid of course!  They have been told that all
>usery rates will invert and they will have to pay their clients to take
>out loans.  Its an ill wind ......
>
>As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing
>upwards. We have heard that there are three wise men in the east who
>have been working on the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive
>until it's all over.
>
>I have heard that there are plans to stable all horses at midnight at
>the turn of the year as there are fears that they will stop and try to
>run backwards, causing immense damage to chariots and possible loss of
>life. Some say the world will cease to exist at the moment of
>transition.
>
>Anyway, we are still continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K
>problem. I will send a parchment to you if anything further develops.
>
>If you have any ideas please let me know,
>
>       Plutonius
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