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Re: new millenium bugs me
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:34:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Buiting writes:
> 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!
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> NO! (see below)
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> > 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!
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> 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...)
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> > The first year of the 21st century is 2001! Simple.
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> 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.
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> > I don't mind celebrating the year 2000, it IS a milestone, but IS NOT the
> > start of a new millenium!!!
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> Oh well, any occasion to party is a good one!
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> cheers,
> Frank
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:
2bc\1bc\1ad\2ad\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10\11
The slashes are midnights on new year's eves. In between the slashes are years-
counted as the first one, the second one, etc.- spans of time.
The first decade is the part that is contained by:
\1ad\2ad\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10\ counting the spans of time (years) between the
slashes shows that we have ten years, a decade. The FIRST year of the next
decade is the year 11. Extrapolating this to milleniums means that at the end
of 1000 years we were at dec31st 1000, which rolled into 1001- the first year
of THIS millenium. So 2000 is the last year fo this millenium- on dec31st
2000, 2000 years will be complete and a new millenium will start.
If we counted eggs, and had ten of them, and started with zero, then we'd only
count nine eggs.
Chris
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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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| (...) 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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