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Re: new millenium bugs me
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:22:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Christopher Lannan writes:
> In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> > Of course, since the new millennium doesn't start until 2001, we have a year
> > to discuss it. :)
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> YES!
NO! (see below)
> 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 last one is 2000!
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 count...)
> The first year of the 21st century is 2001! Simple.
So the first year of the new millenium starts at 2000 and ENDS at 2001, you
are correct if you say 2001 is the first 'whole' year of the millenium.
> I don't mind celebrating the year 2000, it IS a milestone, but IS NOT the
> start of a new millenium!!!
Oh well, any occasion to party is a good one!
cheers,
Frank
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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)
| | | Re: new millenium bugs me
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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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| (...) 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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