[LEAPSECS] A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

[Rob Seaman]

Richard Clark writes:


>> I've always liked the view that the first century spanned the years 1-99.


Poul-Henning Kamp replies:


> Yes, the appeal is obvious, apart from that pescy detail of “century" meaning "hundred"...


Richard had already rendered objection moot:


>> The current year numbering system came into use several centuries after the first so 'the 1st Century' was not even in use during the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd centuries.


Rob
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“Mythology is only the most ancient history and biography.  So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted.  Either time or rare wisdom writes it.  Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”  - Henry David Thoreau