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Old 05-07-2004, 02:22 AM   #7
Torrere
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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.
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).
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