In a message dated 97-07-07 06:05:00 EDT, you write:
> I may be no mathematical genius but I think if at age 1 you have
> completed your first year of life (0-1), then at age 33 you have
> completed 33 years, not 32. I have always read that traditionally
> Christ is supposed to have died at 33, which therefore became the
> ideal age for all resurrected souls.
>
> Sophie Oosterwijk
>
Try it this way. One week before your 33rd birthday, you are not yet 33
years old. But you are in your 33rd year, the year that will end with your
becoming 33 years old.
Hope this makes it more clear.
pat sloane
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