Chad A. Fernandez wrote:
>The 90's are over, because we already had 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,
>97, 98, 99, 10 years in all.
But if we take it from the start wasn't the 00's the years
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10?
And is the 00's the correct name (if we ignore when they start)? (This was
on TV a few days ago but I've forgotten that part of course).
>It doesn't really have anything to
>do with the century itself, because you can have your 21st orange or
>apple too. The arguement over if it's the 20th or 21st, boils down to
>an arguement of the boundary between the two.
But that border is fixed by history. The only two possible sollutions would
be to either rewrite history or to establish the years between the 1901 and
1999 as a century (making it a year shorter).
>The 20 instead of the 19
>confuses people, However. I could write down my 21st 20, but that
>doesn't make it a 21, it's still a 20.....I still have 21 20's on my
>paper...err I mean on computer screen.
I must confess that I understood absolutely nothing of that.
//Bernie
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