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From: michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB employee)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: New years eve 1999
Summary: Start counting at ZERO
Message-ID: <378@wshb.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 19:16:33 GMT
References: <1989Dec14.200140.10196@cs.rochester.edu> <5825@eos.UUCP> <5805@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: WSHB, Christian Science Mon. Synd., Cypress Creek, SC
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In article <5805@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
> The decade from 1 AD to 9 AD was defective, as it was only 9 years long.
> 

For the past year I have been trying to teach my five year old daughter
to start counting at zero, not one. My wife and her teachers think I'm nuts.


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