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9026594 No.9026594 [Reply] [Original]

Why do we use to indicate years like this
>2017
and not like
>2,017
or
>2 017
or
>2.017
or again
>2˙017
and so on?

>> No.9026596

>>9026594
This question haven't let me sleep last night, please clear up this doubt of mine.

>> No.9026607

>why add unneeded punctuation to things

>> No.9026624

>>9026607
And why is it unneeded in this situation and not in mathematics?

>> No.9026631

>>9026624
because years are integers...........................................

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>>9026631
>because years are integers.......
I think he means "why no comma separating the thousands?"
And the answer is obvious: All the years we normally use are 4 digits.

>> No.9026638

Because parsing four digits isn't that difficult and we have a long time to even get to the fifth one. It's also easy to interpret the last two digits as the appropriate year because human lifespan is typically less than a century, and often there is accompanying context for further clues.

>> No.9026641

>>9026638
Further, it's not unlikely that we'll adopt another calendar starting with year zero in the coming eight millennia anyway.

>> No.9026655

>>9026631
>Thousands separator is not used for integers
???

>> No.9026664

>>9026624
i never put commas between digits in numbers

>> No.9026665

if a number becomes too long for you to tell its magnitude then you should be using scientific notation anyway

>> No.9026667

>>9026594
Why are we still counting years from the birth of a random jew.

>> No.9026674

>>9026667
convention

>> No.9026693

>>9026596
the jews have stolen that comma in order to use it for their bank account balance.

>> No.9026696

>>9026594
One less character being written billions of times a day.

>> No.9026702

Wouldn't it be easier to just teach everyone in school how to quickly divide 365 into 1? That way today is 2017.52328767123 and it's totally unambiguous what I mean by that.

>> No.9026711

>>9026667
>random jew
Jesus isn't a random Jew, he's our savior. Also what do you suggest we use instead?

>> No.9026748

>>9026693
Fucking kikes

>> No.9026761

>>9026655
They aren't as long as you aren't a brainlet.

>> No.9026778
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>>9026634
>>9026655
In these countries, the comma is used for the decimals, and the point for the thousands.
Anon must live in one of them.

>> No.9026944

>>9026761
>Things don't have to be stict
If you use them for 1,000,000 you use them as well for 1,000 you american microcephalus.

>> No.9026947

>>9026778
I've listed other methods as 2˙017 or 2.017 as well for a reason indeed.

>> No.9026953

>>9026947
But the comma was the first one, probably stopped there.

>> No.9027124

>>9026778
>list of countries that haven't been to the moon