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Article: Guess what? You missed the Millennium.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Suddenly, it's 1999, and we're one year closer to the millennium.
I said "closer" because there's a division of opinion on when that millennium will happen. The mathematically inclined insist the millennium comes when the year 2000 turns into the year 2001. We don't start counting at 0, they insist; we start counting at 1. So a 10, 100 or a 1000 is the end of one series, not the beginning of the next.
For the mathematically challenged, though, the most noticeable change will occur when the 19 turns into a 20. And the mass media, of course, will exploit that perception. The media, generally, have never been noted for self-discipline or restraint. In his ...