16th March 2008, 9:15 PM
Wouldn't it be easier to just do it the way astronomers do it and consider 1 BC to be the year 0? Most people do that anyway and it makes sense.
The fact is, it's all completely arbitrary anyway. So, why not do what's easiest to work with, since we COULD technically say the new millenium began on 2003, it being 1000 years since 1003.
The fact is, it's all completely arbitrary anyway. So, why not do what's easiest to work with, since we COULD technically say the new millenium began on 2003, it being 1000 years since 1003.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)