Last person born in 19th century dies

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CrazyGamer2017 said:

Metallox said:

Not exactly. Traditional counting would state that the year 2000 is already part of the 2000s, but at the same time it is the last year of the 20th century. This whole debate only extends to the start and end of centuries. 

On another note, I don't know if people who defend the existence of the year zero have considered that its addition would generate a funny consequence: any event you can come up with would've actually took place one year before of what the traditional counting says. Thus, Columubs would've actually arrived to the Americas in 1491, World War II would've actually begun in 1938, your birthdate one year earlier and today it would 2017, not 2018. It's only natural when what we consider to be the year 1 now would need to be the year 0. 

Yes, which is why I said that there is a difference between how the calendar is made and the mathematical notion of counting years in a decimal way.

I clearly explained that there never was a year zero or even 1 because in those days people did NOT use that counting. No one said, Wow it's the year zero or Wow it's the year 1...

It's only much later that a calendar was made and it was decided then that the years began at year 1 which is mathematically speaking a MISTAKE. And if you add to that the fact that our calendar is faulty anyway since Jesus was most certainly not born in 1, therefore there is no good reason to consider the calendar from anything else than a mathematical point of view, which is why we even continue using the Gregorian calendar. We are in 2018 so that we mathematically know that the PS4 was released in 2013, in entire numbers that means 5 years ago.

Which is why I said at the beginning that it is both right and wrong to consider the person who was born in 1900 as born in the 19th century, right from the point of view of this faulty calendar and wrong from a decimal (mathematical) point of view. But since counting years is simply mathematics, then it stands to reason that the mathematical argument is the superior one, therefore someone born in the year 1900 is actually born in the 20th century.

Yes, counting years is purely mathematics, but you must have made a mistake in your statement to conclude that 1900 is in the 20th century. 

Let's say someone is born the 1st of July 1900, he's (approximately) born in the middle of the 1900th year, so he's born 1899.5 years after the "beginning", starting the 1st of January 1. Like you said a century is 100 years long so the 1st century start from 0 years after the beginning and last until 100 years after that point in time. Identically, the 19th century start 1800 years after the beginning point, and last until 1900 years after it. 

The mistake comes from the impression people have, that, starting with year 1, something is missing, but actually everything make sense, because at any point in time during the year 1 you're at 0,xxx years after the beginning point. And it's obvious that the existence of a 0th year make as much sense as dividing by zero.

 

Ps : excuse my approximated English