--- Stuart Orford sjorford@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
What is this "correct" and "incorrect"? Either system is an arbitrary division of time, and it only becomes important which you prefer when you get to year 0 (because it doesn't exist). In the real world, the vast majority of people these days celebrate the change of a decade/century/millennium when the
last
digit changes to a zero, and so Wikipedia should certainly mention that to be the case. NPOV!
However, it probably does make sense to use the "traditional" rather than the "popular"
definitions
for decades etc., as that's the way they would
have
been most often referred to historically. There's certainly no problem linking to the Icelandic articles either, even if they would be a year out.
--- Mark Richards marich712000@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes, we should document popular math errors too, and popular misconceptions about how gravity works! ;) Mark
Yes, we should.
-- Stuart
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