Hi Mark,

How was my joke with Conus milleniumwardsi. Nice name or not.
Helmut

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> 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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> |Something else to add:
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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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> |Did you start with 1 or 0.
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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
> |is reached).
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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
> |property.
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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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