Millennium

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Do not discus this non-indological topic on the INDOLOGY list.

Thank you.

Dominik Wujastyk

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, pradeep mittal wrote:

> zero is also a number after that one starts
> although zero is almost negative for any person,
> but still a person in cricket start scoring runs to start with zero, one , two
> and so on.
> and when he reaches upto 99 he thinks to complete his century with one run
> only
> and when he completes it is called a century and not on 101. so i think the
> millennium starts with 2000 and not 2001 , because when it was zero than came
> year "one".
> when he is on 199 he thinks for second century so he completes it with one run
> to make it to 200.and that is called double century and not on 201.
> pradeep mittal
>
> Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> >
> > > Many best wishes to you for the new millennium.
> >
> > As a result of the above remark, a number of list members have sent me
> > smug personal messages telling me that the "real" new millennium begins in
> > 2001, yada yada yada.  Some have even insulted me for being so stupid as
> > to think that 2000 is the millennium.
> >
> > As you can imagine, this is not a life-enhancing beginning to my
> > year!  Kindly desist.
> >
> > --
> > Dominik Wujastyk
> > Founder, INDOLOGY list.
>

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Kailash Srivastava wrote:

> Could you please explain why and how zero is negative?
>
> KS
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: pradeep mittal
>   To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:37 AM
>   Subject: Re: Millennium
>
>
>   although zero is almost negative for any person,
>
>