Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25
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Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
Mathematics and languages have different rules.
In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don't. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that's just fine.
If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that's how it goes in that language.
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Wtf a deadly heart attack at age 25??
We can go at any time.
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One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
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Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
I don't feel like this is correct.
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One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on.
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Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
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How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on.
️there is no year 0 we started at 1.
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how is this news?
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Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
Correct.
The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.
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We can go at any time.
Delay nothing
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there is no year 0 we started at 1.
Babies don't start at 1.
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Babies don't start at 1.
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway
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Who is "we"?
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In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken
Huh, that's really interesting
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Babies don't start at 1.
You should have told that to those guys 2025 years ago.
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Wtf a deadly heart attack at age 25??
Not sure he is missing out on much... Another 50 years of working to stay alive...
Maybe he moved on to a better place.
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Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
Fuck sake, I thought we'd left this argument back in 99.
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Fuck sake, I thought we'd left this argument back in 99.
We’re still gonna party.
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Correct.
The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.
This is why all the years in the "20th Century" started with "19". 20 is the end, not the start.
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There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.
This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.
