People born in the year 2000 don't have to try and calculate how old they are when people ask them their age

_spiffy@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 587 points –

I was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.

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They do have to calculate it, it's just the calculation is a bit easier for them.

They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.

But we’re not really calculating anything. I was 12 in 2012 and 8 in 2008. That’s much less a calculation and more so just observing numbers.