So what your saying is that ,,,,a few numbers counters are right and some 5 billion earthlings are wrong. I kniow what your
aimimg at (windmills?) and it is a sound statement but just so the other humans don't have a cerebral meltdown we all just
decidced to have the party on 01012000, (got it the 1st time). Go with the flow Sarah Skywalker, don't go toward that
"darkside " of 01012001, then we sort of get stuck in limbo waiting.
"just my opinion ,,,i could be wrong " Dennis Miller, 1999
-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Watson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: 2000 - did you know? (NSR)
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|The year 2000 (haha it only took me 4) is NOT the millennium.
|I'll give you an example: Count to ten (10)
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| I thought so, you started with 1.
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|That's how the Romans thought when they created this calendar. The number 0
|did not exist. The concept of the number zero did not exist for another 300
|years. Therefore, they started their year with the number 1. That would make
|the years 1 - 10 a decade. In order to have the next decade have 10 years,
|the numbers would have to be 11-20. The next would be 21-30 and so on. If you
|add a few zeros you will see that in fact, the year 2000 is the END of the
|millennium. So y'all partied early and have to do it again next year.
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|It is easy to see how people thought the year 2000 would be the beginning of
|a new century as well as a new millennium. We understand the concept of the
|number 0 and begin many things with 0. When measuring shells, we start the
|ruler or calipers with 0 (or one and subtract one when the final measurement
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|BTW, I thought Paris had the best display followed by Washington, DC. London's
| display really didn't photograph as well as I thought it would. I saw Paris
|live, but had to watch DC on taped delay because I just "Had" to see the
|cheesy little silver coconut fall from the tallest palm tree on the motel's
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|Another piece of useless info:
|When I was a senior in High School we referred to the class of 2000 as the
|class of NOTHING.
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|Happy New Year (and NOT millennium)
|Sarah
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