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

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

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limelight79@lemm.ee
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They do have to calculate it, it’s just the calculation is a bit easier for them.

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Pechente@feddit.de
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They could also process the year as a string and drop the first two characters.

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LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
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Only if you were born on January 1, otherwise you have to do a simple ±1 math

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CaptainEffort@lemmy.world
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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.

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limelight79@lemm.ee
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You’re not living up to your username with an effort like that!

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CaptainEffort@lemmy.world
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My username is pure sarcasm unfortunately

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