2006-06-27 15:24:47 · 16 answers · asked by acsmooth2619 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Go and get a bunch of pennies--more than a dollar's worth. Now, start counting out a century or dollar of them. What digit do you start counting with, 0 or 1? 1 right? The first of anything in a series is USUALLY [yes, the usually is sarcasm it is always] designated by the number 1. So, the first century or hundred years was 1-100, the second century 101-200. So, the first millenium, or 1,000 years, was 1-1000, the second was 1001-2000. The first year of the 21st century was 2001. It was also the first year of the third millenium. There was no year "0".
2006-06-27 23:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 3⤊ 8⤋
2001
2006-06-27 15:56:21 · answer #2 · answered by brett p 1 · 1⤊ 11⤋
2000
2006-06-27 15:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by Dr.Drake Romorei 3 · 12⤊ 2⤋
2000
2006-06-27 15:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by nonametomention 1 · 13⤊ 2⤋
2001. There is no Year 0, so the first year started with year AD 1. So the first year of the new century started with AD 2001, and the last year of the old century would be 2000.
2006-06-27 15:29:56 · answer #5 · answered by Aemilia753 4 · 1⤊ 13⤋
2000
2006-06-27 15:50:58 · answer #6 · answered by Emman 2 · 12⤊ 3⤋
Millenium 2000
2016-10-17 23:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by alejandrez 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
the millennium started in 2001
2006-06-27 15:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by debbielee 2 · 1⤊ 12⤋
the millenium started in 2000 the century started in 2001
2006-06-27 15:27:54 · answer #9 · answered by That one guy 6 · 1⤊ 10⤋
Year numbers are actually ordinal numbers. Year 0 was the first year, year 1 the second year, etc. That is why you will read in some old documents something like "in this, the xxxth year of our Lord" Therefore 2001 is the first year of the millenium, 2000 years after the first year, the "2001st year of our Lord".
2006-06-27 17:47:57 · answer #10 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋