zodiac21 Nov 2004
re: "You, of course, would not understand if I were to say that I wish we could change the counting system to the base 9 because then the dawn of the 28th century would probably fall within my lifetime, just twenty years from next New Years Day. Itâs something your three years in math has not prepared you for, any more than your floundering language abuse has prepared you to criticize poetry."
That's because only you would think seeing "the dawn of the 28th century" in your lifetime has any special meaning then!
Suppose for a moment we used a system for time measurement that starts a new "century" every year; would you still feel a stirring of importance in your loins at having lived through the 6 billion and first through 6 billion and twenty-first centuries? Probably!
PS-For calling it "the 28th century", you fail. The word "century" supposes a special significance for 100s, a base-9 system does not. You'd have to celebrate eightyoneturies or something such. And who in his right mind would do that?!?!?!?!?!
You've just made the same mistake I did. Consider yourself suitably bum.