99 years in a century?

FunLover18

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

For Forks Sake

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

You are making a mockery of your username.

SEPT 23 1989

heretic

The flying mouse

I love calendar girls.

Creol1

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

You're right and it was highlighted at the time, but the pressure to celebrate the new millennium when the numbers turned over was irresistible.

jiltloop

The first year of the century was 2000, the last will be 2099. That's 100 years.

jimgoose

jiltloop wrote: »

The first year of the century was 2000, the last will be 2099. That's 100 years.

Nope. RRCA.

Raging_Ninja

jiltloop wrote: »

The first year of the century was 2000, the last will be 2099. That's 100 years.

Nope. First year of the 21st century was 2001. Last year will be 2100.

There was no 0AD, there was 1BC and then 1AD.

smash

I blame the Mayans.

Alive1

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Nope. First year of the 21st century was 2001. Last year will be 2100.

There was no 0AD, there was 1BC and then 1AD.

BC/AD is no longer used, the correct abbreviations are BCE and CE

Lux23

What do we can the time we are living in now? The teenies?

FunLover18

For Forks Sake wrote:

You are making a mockery of your username.

There's nothing fun about not being able to count.

MeatTwoVeg

I blame Prince.

cdeb

Alive1 wrote: »

BC/AD is no longer used, the correct abbreviations are BCE and CE

No, the nonsensically-politically-correct abbreviations are BCE and CE.

It's certainly never been decided that BC/AD are "no longer used"

FunLover18

jiltloop wrote:

The first year of the century was 2000, the last will be 2099. That's 100 years.

When did the first century begin and end?

Dravokivich

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Nope. First year of the 21st century was 2001. Last year will be 2100.

There was no 0AD, there was 1BC and then 1AD.

-1 , 0 , 1

jca

What does BCE and CE stand for??

jimgoose

jca wrote: »

What does BCE and CE stand for??

Before Common Era and Common Era. Same as BC and AD.

Alive1

jca wrote: »

What does BCE and CE stand for??

Before Common Era
Common Era

FunLover18

jca wrote:

What does BCE and CE stand for??

Before common era and common era

jimgoose

Dravokivich wrote: »

-1 , 0 , 1

Year zero is only used in astronomy and certain weirdo Eastern calendar system like Buddhist.

endacl

smash wrote: »

I blame the Mayans.

So did SAMCRO. That didn't end well...

Alf Veedersane

So am I a year younger or what?

jimgoose

FunLover18 wrote: »

There's nothing fun about not being able to count.

Not having any digit "zero" isn't too hectic either. It is a lesser-known but no less sobering factoid that the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they had no way of indicating successful termination of their C programs.

Sam Kade

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Nope. First year of the 21st century was 2001. Last year will be 2100.

There was no 0AD, there was 1BC and then 1AD.

life changing information to be sure.

LeinsterDub

jimgoose wrote: »

Not having any digit "zero" isn't too hectic either. It is a lesser-known but no less sobering factoid that the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they had no way of indicating successful termination of their C programs.

Eastern or Western Empire?

jimgoose

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Eastern or Western Empire?

Western. The Arabs saved the day over t'other side.

kowloon

jca wrote: »

What does BCE and CE stand for??

Before Christ Existed and Christ Existed, because changing the names to be politically correct but staying with the same calendar is stupid.

bonzodog2

jimgoose wrote: »

Not having any digit "zero" isn't too hectic either. It is a lesser-known but no less sobering factoid that the main reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that they had no way of indicating successful termination of their C programs.

Also, how can you ever be sure how long a piece of string is, if you don't know where the end is ?/0

jimgoose

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Also, how can you ever be sure how long a piece of string is, if you don't know where the end is ?/0

That's more of it.

Badly Drunk Boy

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

How about if we assume that the first century AD/CE only had 99 years? (The fuss of creating this time system caused Year Zero to dissolve into itself.) That way, the year 100 is the first year of the 2nd century, and your underwear becomes untwisted.

cdeb

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

How about if we assume that the first century AD/CE only had 99 years?

Kind of woudn't be a century though.

Next you'll want a KitKat with just three fingers.

See where such madness leads?

YFlyer

Y2K caused it.

BrokenArrows

FunLover18 wrote: »

There's nothing fun about not being able to count.

Why should the world suffer for eternity with dealing with uneven "century" years just because some douche decided to start a calendar at 1 instead of 0.

Ignore the one year, who cares, and from this point on a century is from 2000-2099, 2100-2199 etc.

It makes far more sense because a new century should obviously begin with the beginning of a new century in our calendar numbers.

L.Jenkins

FunLover18 wrote: »

When did the first century begin and end?

Starting at 0 and ending at 99. A hard concept to grasp for some, but that constitutes 100 years. As a Software Developer/Programmer, it's not all that difficult. For simplicity, we start counting from 0.

FunLover18

L.Jenkins wrote:

Starting at 0 and ending at 99. A hard concept to grasp for some, but that constitutes 100 years. As a Software Developer/Programmer, it's not all that difficult. For simplicity, we start counting from 0.

We start counting at 1, if I asked you to count to ten youd start at 1. Why call 100 a hundred if it's actually the hundred and first number!? There was no year 0, as zero years means no years. Did you turn zero on your first birthday or one?

mansize

21 Century began Jan 1, 2001

mansize

THERE WAS NO YEAR 0!

A mathematician, a physicist and a programmer were asked how many odd integers greater than 2 are prime.

Mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and by induction, every odd integer greater than 2 is prime.
Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, …
Programmer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, …

twin_beacon

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

I would disagree, the 20th century on 23:59:59 31/13/1999
after that, you are into the 21st century, i.e. by the end of June 2000, you are .5 years into the new century.
When you count, its a given that you start at 0, so why not time?

by the time jan 1st 2001 came around, we are 1 year into the century, same as when your car's odometer says "002100" it means the car has done 2100 KM

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/evolution-of-numbers.html

Alf Veedersane

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

A mathematician, a physicist and a programmer were asked how many odd integers greater than 2 are prime.

Mathematician: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, and by induction, every odd integer greater than 2 is prime.
Physicist: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, …
Programmer: 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, …

There are 10 types of people that understand binary.

Those who do and those who don't.

mansize

twin_beacon wrote: »

I would disagree, the 20th century on 23:59:59 31/13/1999
after that, you are into the 21st century, i.e. by the end of June 2000, you are .5 years into the new century.
When you count, its a given that you start at 0, so why not time?

If you count apples you don't start at 0, you start a 1.

mansize

BOOM

corglass

mansize wrote: »

twin_beacon wrote: »

I would disagree, the 20th century on 23:59:59 31/13/1999
after that, you are into the 21st century, i.e. by the end of June 2000, you are .5 years into the new century.
When you count, its a given that you start at 0, so why not time?

If you count apples you don't start at 0, you start a 1.

You're wrong. You start at 0.

Example:
0 apples
1 apple
2 apples..

Otherwise you've no way to explain that you've no apples

PaddyWilliams

Here you go

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CMOTDibbler

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

There was a year 0.

Otherwise there wouldn't have been a year 1.

Year 0 was the year that culiminated in a year having passed and everyone said "That's one year gone". So year 1 started and continued until year 2 started.

Using the 'old' terminology, 1 AD was 1 year after Christ died. 12 months of year 0 in other words.

How about that for an explanation?

MeatTwoVeg

corglass wrote:

Otherwise you've no way to explain that you've no apples

You could just hold out open palms towards a person and sort of shrug your shoulders apologetically.

MOH

jimgoose wrote: »

Nope. RRCA.

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twin_beacon

mansize wrote: »

If you count apples you don't start at 0, you start a 1.

counting, and measuring are not the same thing.

If there are 5 apples on the table and I want to count them, I say "1,2,3,4,5". How, if you want to represent that on a number line, its like this (where the dashes represent the apples):

0-1-2-3-4-5
There are 5 dashes, as we start at zero.

In this instance, I will start an 1:

1-2-3-4-5
But there are only 4 dashes, although I counted to five.


When measuring something, you must start at zero.
As a software developer, this is literally one of the very first concepts that is thought to you in college.

Wizard!

twin_beacon wrote: »

FunLover18 wrote: »

I see so many polls and lists of the best so-and-so of the 21st century that include the year 2000 which was the last year of the 20th century.

There is no year 0 in the AD/CE calendar, therefore both the new millennium and the 21st century kicked off in 2001, it drives me scatty.

I would disagree, the 20th century on 23:59:59 31/13/1999
after that, you are into the 21st century, i.e. by the end of June 2000, you are .5 years into the new century.
When you count, its a given that you start at 0, so why not time?

by the time jan 1st 2001 came around, we are 1 year into the century, same as when your car's odometer says "002100" it means the car has done 2100 KM

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/evolution-of-numbers.html

Really?

So, I was born on 00:00:00 on Jan 1st on year 1.
What is my age on 23:59:59 on Dec 31st on year 1 ?
What is my age on 00:00:00 on Jan 1st on year 2 ?

To save the trouble, it's pretty much the same. On both occasions I am 1 yo.
When a baby is born, it's NOT 1yo, but it's first year of life, it's NOT year zero!

After 10 days, it's 10 days old.
After 6 months, it's 6 months old
After a year, it's 1 yo.
After a year and a day, still is 1 yo, but 1st year is completed and runs through it's 2nd year of it's life.

So, if we suppose Jesus was born on Jan 1st, after 365 days, he is 1 yo and its 1AD.
After 366 days, he is still 1 yo but the calendar says we are running through his second year, it's NOT completed yet.

So, a century begins on Jan 1st of year XXX1 and ends on Dec 31st of year X000.

Timberrrrrrrr

If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son,

I got 99 problems but a year ain't one!