Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25
Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25
All this pedantism about century start dates, and everyone missed they could have called her a millennium baby but went for century instead.
Plot twist: The year 2000 Chinese New Year was actually on February 5th, a year of the dragon.
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.
Fuck sake, I thought we'd left this argument back in 99.
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.
I don't feel like this is correct.
Haha, touché salesman 👍
That’s not a good sign
One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
There's a "strict" way and then there's a "common perception and practice" way. You're thinking of the strict way.
But yeah, sure. I guess it's due to the fact that we don't have a year zero, really, which is counterintuitive for us in the modern era, I suppose. At least for me.
Kthxbai
how is this news?