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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] Well, when i say 'three hundred years' im usually not trying to be exact. The problem is that people will hear someone say 'x hundred years ago'and figure they were a smart cookie and were quoting the exact time, which just happens to be a multiple of 100 today. When i was discussing the revolutionary war with someone recently, i said 'things were different 300 years ago' because its is 2001, and i remember that the revolution was in the 1700s. i subtracted 20-17 in my head while i was talking and got 3, so i said 300. I know full well the revolutionary war began 225 years ago. It was just more efficient for the conversation to not go get a calculator and get the exact figure before i lost my train of thought. We have to accept that when someone gives a figure like that it could be +/- 75 years, depending on what mnemonic device they use to remember it, and that in the Star Trek universe no one is walking around flipping through the chronology before they say something. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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