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(...) YES! This has really gotten to me of late- how come it's so simple to sit down with someone and explain to them that if you have 10 things, and you count them , then the last one is 10, and if you have 2000 things, and you count them, then the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dunno about you but *I'm* partying like it's 1999 already, just like what's his name. So ya.... *knowing why* the millenium starts in 2001 is a sign of intelligence. Refusing to party this year anyway is a sign of stupidity (or (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) NO! (see below) (...) It's a matter of what you take as 'the first year'... The first year starts at 0 lasts to 1, second year 1-2, third year 2-3, tenth year 9-10 (since a year is a time-span it starts and ends, that is the thing you (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) with (...) then (...) I just had this argument at work. There is no year zero! At midnight on dec31st is the year 1 BC it became 1 AD (though they didn't think of it as such at the time) so the first decade would look like: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Unfortunately, YES (see below) (...) with (...) then (...) If it were only so (as a coder... I feel that all things should start at zero). Turns out that long ago there was this monk named Denny the Runt who was commisioned by the Pope to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Of course, another thing people forget is that the gregorian calander was created several hundred years late and grandfathered a lot. And of course, by the opinions of (most) biblical scholars and historians, the whole thing is off by *at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Mark Sullivan writes: [snipped part about counting to 10] (...) zero). Hmm, that must be it. It must be my programmer's instinct that took over... -Frank (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually not. Age really does start at 0. You aren't 1 until you have been out of your mother's womb (or the petri dish for those reading this post in the far distant future) for 365 or so days. (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There's a difference between being "in your first year" and being "one year old". If you are 30 years old, then that means you have completed 30 years of life, and are in the midst of your 31st year, so the AD counting thing doesn't hold true. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually we count aniversaries of our birthday. You really only have one nbirthday, and it's not your "first" birthday... (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) we're (...) A good clarification, Frank. I guess by "first one" up above I actually meant the day of your birth, which I guess in common parlance would called your "0th" birthday. I'm feeling feisty today. Chris (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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This thread is a pedant's dream. Somebody pinch me. (...) not sure what an nbirthday is... I agree that most folks only have one birthday, and ALL folks only have one "actual" birthday. However, there exists a class of people that have more than one (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message (...) Why?.. Selçuk (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So that the celebration of the aniversary of their birthday doesn't get lost in the shuffle surrounding the celebration of the aniversary of the nominal birthday of a certain individual who was born some 2000 years ago. A more pragmatic reason (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope- I got a double whammy- I was born on Jan 6th, then my brother came along two years later on the 19th. So sometimes presents that were for both christmas and the birthday, sometimes b-day presents that were for both of us, and - slightly (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I feel your pain every December 28th;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder that 70% of the world is non-Christian. Sometimes it's easy to forget. ;) Happy Ramadan coming up, Selçuk. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:3847779B.88F0A8...msu.edu... (...) Thanks,..:-) Actually, I'm not so much a Muslim, although I'm supposed to be so. I educated to be one, but beginning from the teenage times, it started (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Selçuk " wrote: <snip> (...) Well I can explain this one somewhat for you, especially since my birthday is Dec 20th.. I still celebrate it, though sometimes I think I should move it to another month.. Some of the main reasons: You don't get a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) years- (...) Ok now I'm real lost here. I was always told that B.C. stood for Before Christ, and A.D. stood for After the Death of Christ. If this is true, then what happened to the 32 years that Christ lived. Are they ever counted. Or were (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Years weren't counted in a Christian manner until well after the death of Christ, because early Christians fully expected him to return in their lifetimes. The best estimates say that he was probably born around 4 BC. AD doesn't mean "After (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message > (...) Thanks for the well written explanation Tamy. I've also received the emailed version..:-) Regards, Selçuk (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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