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Subject: Re: Off-topic interesting time question

Author: Ed Murak

Date: 06:41:34 12/11/05

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On December 11, 2005 at 09:30:27, Norm Pollock wrote:

>Off-Topic
>Here is another time question:
>
>If a person was born in the year 10 BC, how old is that person on his birthday
>in the year 10 AD?

19, there's no zero year.

At this stage, the next question can be the "color of the bear" one, to which
Martin Gardner (whose errors are rare and usually in esoteric areas) rather
surprisingly missed the general solution
Until we filled his mailbox with "gotcha"s.



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