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Subject: 
Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:07:59 GMT
Reply-To: 
mattdm@mattdm.(Spamcake)org
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
If we did this for human ages, we would say that newborn babies are "1",
meaning that they're in their first year.

Further discussion of this topic belongs in .off-topic.geek, I think. Let's
take it there if you want to continue. :)

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  Re: When should the 2000 Catalogue Appear?
 
(...) Actually, that's exactly what I said. The first year was (retroactively of course) numbered "1", meaning "In the first year after our reference point". The year before that is "-1", meaning "In the first year before our reference point." We (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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