drkohler said:
Complete nonsense. When you are born, you start life in your first year, not on your zeroeth year. Same with calendar years, and we count by the Gregorian calendar, no matter what the problems came with it when it was introduced. The fact that, in general, people call the years 1900,2000 etc as new centuries, millenial, is exactly because most people are "nonmathematicians" so the colloquial (but wrong) idea is holding on. |
You don't understand the notion of entire numbers in mathematics. When you are born you start your first year indeed but you are ZERO years OLD. Maybe you are the only person that was 1 year old when you were born but most of us were zero years old and it took us a full year of life to say we are 1 year old. This is basic mathematics and if you don't get this I'm not surprised you don't understand how the Gregorian calendar is flawed.
The calendar is faulty from a mathematical point of view. People use the DECIMAL system when speaking of the calendar which is why 2000 is the start of the new millennium and the decimal system is a mathematical notion. Most people are indeed non mathematicians but they have common sense.
I would have loved to speak to you during the year 2000 as according to you, you were still in the 90's during that year.
