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Date:      Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:25:44 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: So, what do we call the 00's?
Message-ID:  <199912040725.AAA62727@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991204010420.00967810@mail85.pair.com> from "G. Adam Stanislav" at "Dec 4, 1999 01:04:20 am"

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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.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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