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Article #327Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
From: a... Andrew Boardman
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 14:45
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 14:45
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In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk>,
rbk@aiai.UUCP (Richard Kirby) writes:
>2 A.D was when he was 2 years old, and starting his 3rd year. ... 9 A.D. was
>when he was 9 years old and starting his 10th year, so at 23:59:59.999* on
>31st Dec 09 he had lived 10 years (or as close as infinitely possible), so
>10 A.D must be the start of a new decade, otherwise he would have lived
>11 years in a decade, and surely we all agree that a decade is deca (10)
>years. Hence by extrapolation, 00:00:00.0000000* 100 A.D must have been
>the start of a new century.
Not even *one* :-) on this?
Someone might take you seriously...
/a
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