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Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25

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All this pedantism about century start dates, and everyone missed they could have called her a millennium baby but went for century instead.
Plot twist: The year 2000 Chinese New Year was actually on February 5th, a year of the dragon.
https://www.pinyin.info/chinese_new_year/cny2000-2099.html
- Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".
  The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
  
  Mathematics and languages have different rules.
  In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don't. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that's just fine.
  If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that's how it goes in that language.
  
  Fuck sake, I thought we'd left this argument back in 99.
  
  Correct.
  The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.
  
  I don't feel like this is correct.
  
  Seinfeld explains this to Newman.
  
  Haha, touché salesman 👍
So actually a quarter-century baby.
- Wtf a deadly heart attack at age 25??
  
  We can go at any time.
  
  Not sure he is missing out on much... Another 50 years of working to stay alive...
  Maybe he moved on to a better place.
One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
- How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on. 🤷‍♂️
  
  there is no year 0 we started at 1.
- It's complicated.
  There's a "strict" way and then there's a "common perception and practice" way. You're thinking of the strict way.
  But yeah, sure. I guess it's due to the fact that we don't have a year zero, really, which is counterintuitive for us in the modern era, I suppose. At least for me.
That’s not a good sign
how is this news?
Kthxbai

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