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 – 1 years agoI was born in 1989 and the math is HARD some days.137Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsThey 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.Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 mathBut 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.You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
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.Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 mathBut 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.You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 math
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.You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately
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.
Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple +-1 math
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.
You're not living up to your username with an effort like that!
My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately