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Article #866Re: At Last! The voice of Reason!
From: bja... Barr3y Jaspan
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 03:05
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 03:05
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On the beginning of decades: Think. 9 months after you were born, how old were you? 1 year? No, you were 0 years old. 12 months after you were born you were 1 year old. Thus, we have a table: Months Years -------------- 12 1 24 2 36 3 48 4 60 5 72 6 84 7 96 8 108 9 120 10 Thus, the end of your tenth year of life occurs 120 months after you were born. The first ten years of your life == the first decade of your life. After the tenth year, the eleventh year begins. Thus, the new "decade of your life" begins in the 121st month after your birth, which is in the *11th* year after your birth, not the *10th*. Is this so complicated? Barry Jaspan, MIT-Project Athena bja...@athena.mit.edu PS: Now that I reread the article, I guess the reference to months wasn't necessary. Ah, well. The real question is: what does this have to do with alt.folklore.computers?
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!usc!samsung!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!bjaspan From: bja...@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: At Last! The voice of Reason! Message-ID: <1990Jan13.030548.11577@athena.mit.edu> Date: 13 Jan 90 03:05:48 GMT References: <50810@bbn.COM> Sender: ne...@athena.mit.edu (News system) Reply-To: bja...@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 33 Posted: Sat Jan 13 04:05:48 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit