[WEB4LIB] Counting years

[Dennis Brantley]

jlenze at tln.lib.mi.us wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gary E. Masters wrote:
> 
> > The more I think of it, the more I see it as just a matter of definition.
> > OK.  There was no "zero" year.
> > But why not make the first millennium to be 999 years and then start each
> > following one with the "zero" year?  Makes sense to me.
> >
> 
> First, check a reliable reference source, e.g.
> http://psyche.usno.navy.mil/millennium/whenIs.html
> We have had this cite linked from our page of reference sources for about
> a year and a half now.  For those who need further explanation: when
> counting we start with the number 1, when we reach 100 we have finished
> counting a hundred (or century if counting years).  The second hundred
> starts with 101 add is finished at 200.  Think of money.  If you want to
> count how many dollars worth of pennies you have you finish each dollar's
> worth when you reach a number ending in 00.  You start each new dollar's
> worth with a number ending in 1.  If you do it differently, I'll gladly
> sell you dollars for pennies, or better yet hundreds for singles ;)
> 

Yeah, but...

When I start my stopwatch, which is measuring time, it starts at 0 and
10 seconds have elasped when it reaches 10, not 11.  I know this whole
thing got started by some guy that started counting at 1, but his
grandfather also thought the world was flat and that the sun revolved
around the earth.

Just my $.01999999999....

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