Monday, April 14, 2008

Counting the centuries

I wish somebody could come up with a better shorthand for a whole century - other than its ordinal number I mean

Why should one have to stop, even for a millisecond, to work out that 16th century means 1500 to 1599?

And most of us, not used to counting backwards, have to take 2 milliseconds to work out what 2nd century BCE means