Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:22:52 -0500 (EST) From: Geoffrey Robinson <geoff@grobin.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912041420430.34982-100000@grobin.org> In-Reply-To: <199912040725.AAA62727@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> G. Adam Stanislav wrote...
> > At 15:20 03-12-1999 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > >> not expect anything to happen throughout the year 2000. Or, that I was the
> > >> only one who knows that Y2K = year 2048.
> > >
> > >Don't you mean 2049? :)
> >
> > No, I don't. Unless they changed powers of 2 and I missed it. :-)
>
> Just as the new millennium starts in 2001 because the years were numbered
> starting at 1 (1 + 2000 == 2001), 1 + 2048 == 2049.
Actually
((1 + 2000) / 1000) * 1024 = 2049.024
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