tile Y2K

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I would like to know from what the title Y2K is deriven?

-- PAT WIEDENMANN (pw10sbum@kc.rr.com), December 26, 1999

Answers

Surprising that most people don't know this. Y2K came from President Clinton. He never explained it. But a secred government document recently explaind its meaning:

K is the 11th letter in the alphabet.

Y is the Bablyonian constant measuring the distance between the ziggurat of good and evil of the Zorgon Temple. This constant is 30.27272727 ... (repeating endlessly as an irrational number, signifying the Infinite).

Now we can do this calculation:

Y2K = 2 * 11 * 30.272727272 = 666!

That's right, Y2K is a symbol for the Mark Of The Beast.

Now you know why everyone is so concerned!

-- caltom (caltom@arkansas.net), December 26, 1999.


K is a unit of measurement on a computer = 1024. 2K is sort of like 2000 (is really 2048) but close enough.

Y2K = Year 2000. Computer geeks like acronyms. ;)

-- KaliHE (KaliHE@aol.com), December 26, 1999.


"K is a unit of measurement on a computer = 1024. 2K is sort of like 2000 (is really 2048) but close enough."

Close, but not quite. "K" is the standard notation for Kilo, which means 1000; it was then adopted by the computer industry (as in kilobytes), not the other way around. Example: Kilometer is 1000 meters, Kilogram is 1000 grams, etc. The rest of the explaination is correct though.

-- Stephen McGehee (scm@adjutant.com), December 27, 1999.


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