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« on: April 22, 2018, 09:16:08 AM »

Well another chapter in human history is now closed.
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2018, 06:59:26 PM »

If she was born in 1900, then technically she was born in the 20th century.  I know Wikipedia has the centuries beginning in the '01 year rather than the '00 year, and I think that's a bunch of nonsense.  The last person born in the 19th century was Emma Morano, an Italian woman who died just over a year ago: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/europe/emma-morano-oldest-person-dies-trnd/index.html

There is no year 0 in the calendar.  Traditionally we give the 1st century AD (and BC) a full 100 years, the same as any other rather than short-changing them a year each (or even worse, making the 1st century BC be from 101 BC to 2 BC because 1 BC is part of the 1st century AD.
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