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Subject: Re: millenium - 2000 or 2001?
From: Paul Baechler (pbaechle@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 21:33:16 EST
>Craig wrote:
> >
> > Officially, the new millennium begins Jan 01, 2001, according to the US
> > Naval Observatory, the OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER of the US, and the same of the
> > Official timekeeper in the UK, and also by those that believe
>it's important
> > to have 1000 years in a millennium instead of 999.
>
>Are you saying that the year 1900 was part of the 19th century?
Yes.
>The OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER of the US is an individual with a nose, a
>belly button,
>and an opinion just like everyone else. I really doubt he found the
>answer thru
>one of his telescopes.
>
>Those of us who had to really analyze number systems in order to design
>computers have always recognized that one started counting at zero. (Although
>there was a misguided bunch who had both negative and positive zeroes in their
>implementations.)
So when you get change for a $100 bill do you expect the counting to
start at zero and to get back 99 $1 bills.
>There not only wasn't a year zero. There wasn't a year 1000 one
>millennium ago,
>even if you allow a couple of years slop.
On what do you base this statement?
Paul Baechler
pbaechle@XXX.XXX
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