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minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoCan’t believe we skipped both 0 BC and 0 AD. In all seriousness, we can define the millennium to start on 2000 and work from there. We already do this with decades and centuries.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoJust happened to help my 9yo with his homework and they’re learning that centuries are defined as starting at year 1 and ending with a 0. 101 200 1401 1500 Etc
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoBut it’s arbitrary. It doesn’t need to. Centuries are just 100 years. Start at years ending in one or zero.
minus-squareWorx@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years ago it’s arbitrary Start at […] one or zero. Coward. My century starts at 54
Can’t believe we skipped both 0 BC and 0 AD.
In all seriousness, we can define the millennium to start on 2000 and work from there. We already do this with decades and centuries.
Just happened to help my 9yo with his homework and they’re learning that centuries are defined as starting at year 1 and ending with a 0.
101 200
1401 1500
Etc
But it’s arbitrary. It doesn’t need to. Centuries are just 100 years. Start at years ending in one or zero.
Coward. My century starts at 54