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Why is the century off by one year?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Because we didn't start the count at the year 1,000. We started at 0. So the year 127 was in the first century (the first one hundred years), the year 1450 was in the second century (the second set of one hundred years), so on and so forth.

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