Media mistakes

Trev said:
so why was 2000 in the 21st century?
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It wasn't. There was a popular misconception that the third millennium started on the New Year celebrations for the beginning of 2000, but in fact 2000 was the last year in the second millenium. All the celebrations were just because the zeros had clocked up.
 
trog said:
Because 1999 was still in the 20th century
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Ergo 2001 was in the 20th century?

A century is 100 years, and the first stretched from 1 to 100. The next from 101 to 200, ..., 1901 to 2000. The next century started in 2001. Similarly for millenia, 1 to 1000, 1001 to 2000, 2001 to 3000.

We just celebrated on the wrong date.😵‍💫

But when did people ceoebrate the start of other centuries?
 
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Are you even allowed to use the word binary these days? It does not allow for the 'not quite sure' situation.
 
Scrat said:
Don't forget, Europe had no concept of zero then, nor negative numbers. Johnny Foreigner had to educate us about that much later, Trev.
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Which is why they used to put a dot where the number would normally go as a place-holder when doing their accounts on clay tablets.
 
Black Hole said:
I can defend that - it isn't natural to count the first of anything as zero
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It is in memory addressing on a computer. The first word of a buffer is at &buffer+0, the second word is at &buffer+1 etc

(where & means "the address of")
 
Black Hole said:
I can defend that - it isn't natural to count the first of anything as zero, and years are a count rather than a measurement.
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You are saying ordinal numbers are the natural numbers, so named, ie, 1, 2, 3, ...
 
Trev said:
Are you even allowed to use the word binary these days? It does not allow for the 'not quite sure' situation.
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Haha! 0 not sure if it is 1, and vice versa. Fortunately, numbers don't take offence like humans.
 
Trev said:
Are you even allowed to use the word binary these days? It does not allow for the 'not quite sure' situation.
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Well, God's little joke was to make eight sexes but tell us there are only two. So just say you are Hex and you should be safe (and popular with witches and Pratchett fans too :) ).
 
gomezz said:
It is in memory addressing on a computer. The first word of a buffer is at &buffer+0, the second word is at &buffer+1 etc

(where & means "the address of")
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But that's not counting, it's addressing using offsets from the first address - so naturally the offset of the first address is zero. If you count the actual addresses (in a RAM, say), you'll have the first address, the second address, and so on.

It is pretty much an accident that, because it is convenient to use a binary field to distinguish 2^n (so there is an address which corresponds with the field of all zeros), in computer science the first element is address zero.

Scrat said:
You are saying ordinal numbers are the natural numbers, so named, ie, 1, 2, 3, ...
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It all hinges on whether 0 is the first number. If you are counting things, it isn't.
 
Trev said:
Are you even allowed to use the word binary these days? It does not allow for the 'not quite sure' situation.
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I seem to remember in the dim and distant past that when constructing truth tables there was true, false and don’t care. There ought to be a base 2 equivalent.
 
MikeSh said:
Well, God's little joke was to make eight sexes but tell us there are only two. So just say you are Hex and you should be safe (and popular with witches and Pratchett fans too :) ).
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Hex was a early noughties TV series about a lesbian ghost so that may cause confusion. I think a too old for it to matter option would better suit him.
 
EEPhil said:
I seem to remember in the dim and distant past that when constructing truth tables there was true, false and don’t care. There ought to be a base 2 equivalent.
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But truth tables are base 2.
 
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OK, I wuz wrong. Media spelling mistakes:

Meedia, Medeya, Medea, Meeja
 
Today's so-called "3-star" Kurosu requires only counting and easy inferences:

Code: 
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|   |   |   | O |   | X |
|———|———|———|———|———|———|
|   | O |   | O |   |   |
|———|———|———|———|———|———|
| O |   | X |   |   |   |
|———|———|———|———|———|———|
|   |   |   |   | X |   |
|———|———|———|———|———|———|
| O |   |   |   | O |   |
|———|———|———|———|———|———|
|   |   | X |   |   |   |
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BH Rating: ●︎●︎○︎○︎○︎
 
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