--- Stuart Orford <sjorford(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
What is this
"correct" and "incorrect"? Either
system
is an arbitrary division of time, and it only
becomes
important which you prefer when you get to year 0
(because it doesn't exist). In the real world, the
vast majority of people these days celebrate the
change of a decade/century/millennium when the
last
digit changes to a zero, and so Wikipedia should
certainly mention that to be the case. NPOV!
However, it probably does make sense to use the
"traditional" rather than the "popular"
definitions
for decades etc., as that's the way they
would
have
> been most often referred to historically. There's
> certainly no problem linking to the Icelandic
> articles
> either, even if they would be a year out.
--- Mark Richards <marich712000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes, we should document popular math errors too, and
popular misconceptions about how gravity works! ;)
Mark
Yes, we should.
-- Stuart
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