Plot twist: Centuries end in “0”, they don’t start in “0”.
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
Mathematics and languages have different rules.
In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don’t. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that’s just fine.
If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that’s how it goes in that language.
Fuck sake, I thought we’d left this argument back in 99.
We’re still gonna party.
Correct.
The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.
This is why the years in the “20th Century” started with “19”. 20 is the end, not the start.
I thought it was the 20th century because if you count centuries starting at 1-99 CE, 1900-1999 is the twentieth one
One to 99 is not a century. :)
Haha, touché salesman 👍
I don’t feel like this is correct.
