Friday, August 13, 2010

Counting calender numbers

Greetings from free online math help,

In short, since the historical/calendric situation is so messy, I
believe that we should measure the millennium by noticing when the big
party is, and Prince doesn't party like it's 2000. I think we're in
the new millennium now.

It's also worth noting that since there was no year zero, the years
transitioning from BCE to CE are numbered ... -3, -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, ...
But some people, free math; notably astronomers, want the math to work out
better, so they actually use a year zero (... -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...),
so they're one year off from the rest of us in negative-land.
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