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Old 12.16.2009, 08:22 AM   #81
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Old 12.16.2009, 08:45 AM   #82
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so i suppose you came out of yr mom's vagina already 1 year old, because you start counting at one. you were never zero years old for a whole year, that would be inconceivable. congratulations on yr superpower counting skills...

I'm going to let y'all fight this out, but yr comparing apples to oranges.

a baby is born at 0 years, the calendar wasn't.
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Old 12.16.2009, 09:20 AM   #83
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I think that the problem here is people are confusing number of years with "the year".

January 1st, in the 11th year of our Lawd, marked the start of the second decade.

this is why you should never let anyone with the moniker "the short" back-date shit.
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Old 12.16.2009, 10:40 AM   #84
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can't we just post tit pix and get along, syg?

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Old 12.16.2009, 10:47 AM   #85
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Old 12.16.2009, 11:53 AM   #86
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Old 12.16.2009, 12:17 PM   #87
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oh yes, for you too of course!
too bad they didn't last. pregnancy does an anorexic cokehead's body good.
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Old 12.16.2009, 01:34 PM   #88
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零 0 ০ ०

is a separate and special entity called 'Identity element'. 0 is actually the identity element under addition for the real numbers, since if a is any real number, a + 0 = 0 + a = a. Mathematicians refers to 0 as the additive identity (or better said, the reflexive identity of addition).

is considered to be a purely imaginary number: 0 is the only complex number which is both real and purely imaginary.

...wait. i thought that derrida had shown that any given a is not necessarily self-identical and self-consistent. that is, a does not necessarily always equal a. likewise, the law of the excluded middle has been repealed - a can be simultaneously equal to and not equal to b.


i look at it as a very heraclitean assertion - say for example that a is the mississippi river. heraclitus (as i understand it) says that the mississippi river is not self-identical because tommorrow it will be different.
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Old 10.07.2019, 07:56 PM   #89
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...probably shouldn't have checked on this thread at school

Anyway, now that we're on the cusp of another new decade, I'm here to talk about another argument that I was (justifiably) proved right in.

Ten years ago, my primary school comrades and I were excited about the upcoming year 2010. However, we argued about the way that the year was going to be pronounced: was it "two thousand [and] ten" or "twenty ten"? I was firmly in the latter category, but that was a minority.

But who's right now? Huh? Come at me, children of my old primary school. You all knew I was smarter than you, shouldn't you have listened?
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Old 10.08.2019, 07:15 PM   #90
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rob would have been right if talking about centuries.

the series of years is composed of natural numbers. there is no year zero, and at the middle of year 1 a whole year has not passed yet. the first century runs from the beginning of year 1 to the end of 100.

and so yes, if you’re calling centuries by their ordinal number, y2k was the end of the 20th not the beginning of the 21st. arthur c. clarke got this.

but the mathematical refutations given to rob don’t apply.

because decades in the context he addresses are not named by their order. the 80s are not “the 8th decade” of anything. the 80s are just the 10 years that start with 8. a decade can fall any place you wanna pick it, really.

but anyway. this board had some good fucking times a decade or so ago. reading this shit still makes me laugh.
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Old 10.08.2019, 07:19 PM   #91
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oh yes, for you too of course!
too bad they didn't last. pregnancy does an anorexic cokehead's body good.
and thank you, wherever you are

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