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Originally posted by beavis
i think i read that a while back, basically it has to do with us using a base 10 numeral system (which leads to groupings of hundreds and thousands) to count years.
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It does say that one thing which 'shocks' so many people is the nice, round correlation between 4 * 25 (electing presidents) and 10 * 10 (counting decades and centuries).