Re: millenial madness

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• Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> wrote:
  > > Zeb Haradon wrote: So there was no year 0? it
  > goes from 1BC to 1AD?
  >
  > Ja. But I propose we declare one. The year 1 BC
  > would be declared
  > the year 0. The years 0 to 99 would then be called
  > the zeroeth century,
  > the years 0 to 9 would be the zeroeth decade, and so
  > on, so that we
  > would be entering the zeroeth year of the second
  > millennium in a three weeks,
  > and the yahoos need not argue about when the new
  > millennium starts.
  

Calling people Yahoos will bring a Swift response! :)

> That would fix a problem that has made me crazy
> since always: the history
> scholars refer to the 16th century meaning the
> 1500s.
[etc]

It seems a good idea to me. But the historians mightn't
be pleased.

HAPPY 2000, whatever it is.

Mike

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