14th August 2004, 8:39 PM
I MEAN that 1900 is 100 years after 1800, that's a century. Yes, that works on any year one could pick, but my point is that it works!
"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)