Lance Birch <lan### [at] usanet> wrote:
:>1000 and ends at year 1999

: That's incorrect, that means it has 999 years.

  Nope.
  If it starts at year 1000, then the year 1000 is the first year, year 1001
is the second year, 1002 is the third year, ..., year 1999 is the 1000th year.
  If we count from the beginning of year 1000 to the end of year 1999 that's
full 1000 years.
  However, if we count from the beginning of year 1 to the end of year 999,
that's 999 years.
  Since a millenium is by definition 1000 years and not 999, that means that
the first millenium is from the beginning of year 1 to the end of year 1000;
the second millenium is from the beginning of year 1001 to the end of year
2000; the third millenium is from the beginning of year 2001 to the end of
year 3000. And so on.

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