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In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk> rbk@aiai.UUCP (Richard Kirby) writes:
>Since I last posted to alt.folklore.computers about the year 2000 being a leap
>year, but not 2100, I have received several messages along the lines of 2000 
>is the last year of this century, not the start of the next. Well this is 
>clearly WRONG. Consider:-
>
> [proof based on starting the calendar at 0 A.D.]

Sorry, the first year of the christian era was 1 A.D. not 0 A.D.  There was
no 0 A.D. so the first century spans the hundred years from the start of
1 A.D. to the end of 100 A.D. That makes 100 A.D part of the first century
and 101 A.D. as the first year of the second.  Extrapolating makes 2000 A.D.
the last year of the twentieth century and 2001 the first year of the twenty
first.


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