On Mon, 22nd November 2004, at 19:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
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Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and ends in 1999.
Umm. Actually, this is oft a point of confusion; although decades do, indeed start in xyz0 and continued until xyz9, centuries, millenia, and longer periods of time start from xy01 and continue to x(y+1)00. Hence the beginning of this millennium was on the 1st of January 200*1*, although the first decade primarily within said millennium had started the year beforehand, and the end thereof is to be the 31st of December 3000, not 2999.
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Yours, confusingly,