If you don't see a difference between "do the tens, then do a simple subtraction with digits between 1 - 9" and dividing an arbitrary number by four, then there is no sense arguing. Also it would lead to bad results in your example - the average number of legs a sheep has isn't 4.
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FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y
I regularly forget what year it is though...
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
It's 1993, right?
Chozo@fedia.io · 32 pts · 1y
Bro that was 10 years ago.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Nice try, I know it was 20 years ago.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 1y
1969
Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Nice.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y
Kids born February 29, 2000, turned 6 years old this year.
Cenzorrll@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Ahkshually, they've only had 6 birthdays. They're still 24 years old.
Nougat@fedia.io · 28 pts · 1y
They can if you hit them in the head hard enough.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Works for someone born in 1980 like myself. Easy to track when born at the beginning of a decade.
Maalus@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
I mean, equally as easy to split the equation. Born in 1999? Subtract current year from 1990. Then subtract 9. Easy.
essell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And the easiest way to count sheep is to count all the legs and divide by 4, right?
Maalus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
If you don't see a difference between "do the tens, then do a simple subtraction with digits between 1 - 9" and dividing an arbitrary number by four, then there is no sense arguing. Also it would lead to bad results in your example - the average number of legs a sheep has isn't 4.
TwentySeven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
For most herds of sheep, the average is four.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 14 pts · 1y
Especially if they were born January 1st.
December 31st throws the whole thing off though.
Atemu@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Not if it's 1999-12-31 ;)
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Did you fill in your TPS reports?
Atemu@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
I have no idea what that is.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Uuuuuh, yeeeeeeeeeeah. We’re gonna need you to come in on Saturday.
9point6@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
I'm sure an unfortunate bang on the head could invalidate that one
Edit: that reads a lot more like a threat than I intended it
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 9 pts · 1y
Unless they develop Alzheimer's or something else that fucks with their memory. 🤷🏻♂️
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 1y
Don't think that's a big problem among 24 year olds
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I don't know about that. I regularly forget what year it is.
Then again, I'm pushing 40.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
If they were born later in the year than it currently is, they'll have to -1
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
I've said it before and I'll say it again, 2021 has to be the easiest year for club bouncers
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
If you live in a country with a weirdly high drinking age.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
As a 2000, it makes it stupid easy
BlueLineBae@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y
I'm a 1990 and I thought I had it good.
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
Its gonna be really helpful later in my life thats for sure, for now not really.
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yes
_bcron_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Subtract 12 from your birth year. Now add +(6X2) to that number.
That's the year you were born.
_bcron_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
robocall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Who's got it easier? The people born in 2000 or 2001?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
Er, uh, ok?
Like do people forget how old they are just because of the year they were born?
If someone does forget their age, they just have to do a little math, no different than someone born in 2000.
Joey@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
I think the point is just that the little bit of math is very easy if you're born in 2000.
200ok@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Totally!
Thread OP, kinda like it's easier to do the math when trying to remember your age or the year something happened in reference to one another.
"I remember I was 12 when I got braces", so they know the year was 2012 when they got braces...
...which is easier than having to calculate: