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. |
I don't think you realize you just made CrazyGamer point. When you are born you are in your first year of life just as you said. When you turn 1 you are in your second year of your life. when you turn 100 you are in your 101st year of your life or in other words the second century of your life since by definition a century is 100 years.
