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On 10/01/2020 17:00, Don Pearce wrote:
I've just been listening to More or Less, a BBC programme about numbers, statistics and general misconception. They had an article about exactly this question. They had a statement from The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the official home of time on Earth. The message stated unequivocally that millennia, centuries and decades start on the year ending in a one. End of discussion. If you listen to the excerpt that is on line from the ten year old programme they mentioned in this show, they admit there are two sides to the story, and either is acceptable. Imagine that 1940 was in the 1930s, for instance.... -- Tciao for Now! John. |