Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:32:43 12/24/99
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On December 24, 1999 at 10:09:34, Charles Unruh wrote: >The millenium does not start till 2001!! 2000 is last year of this millenium. > >2000 is just the cap, 2001 is the beggining man i want to blow up the world i'm >tired of people refusing to acknowledge the obvious ughhh! Merry X-mas >>MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hi charles: All this issue is matter of convention, not of maths. Even in a common year, why we celebrate New Year in 1 january instead of 5 april? Every point of the circunference - sorry, parabole- of the translation of the Earth around the Sun could be considered as the initial or terminal point, does'nt it? Calendar have a great deal of convention and caprice, of custom and prejudice. We do not even know if a guy called Christ ever existed, to begin with, or if he did, when he was born, etc... All this is convetional and what matter is when we decide, as a collective corp, to celebrate something. To use math for this is out of place. Nothing real or material thayt can be measured will happen. It is just a mode of counting from a non mthematical premise and so you can count as you wish. Just 2000 is a far better number to celebrate a supposed change of millenium than 2001, that's all. Anyway, not matter what, my best wishes for you, charles, and for your family. Same or everybody. Fernando
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