> From: Chat <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 'Bo Jacoby' > via Chat > Sent: dinsdag 29 mei 2018 08:14
> Do we agree that this year, AD 2018, is the eighth year of the of the > second decade of the first century of the third millenium? Or do you > consider it to be the seventh year of the first decade of the zeroth > century of the second millenium? The time passed until year 2018 are 2 > millenia, 0 centuries, 1 decade and 7 years, but those are not ordinal > numbers. No, I don't. 2018 is the ninth year of the second decade etc., since the second decade started at the beginning of 2010, as the first decade, the first century and the third millennium started at 2000 1 1 0 0 0.000. Which notation is remarkable, since we indicate the first month and the first day by 1, all other time intervals we start with 0. But Miller explained that in http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2018-May/007794.html R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
