The Kannapolis Cannonballlers (milb team) are celebrating their 30th year, but they started in 1995. 2024 – 1995 = 29, not 30. Sometimes they say it’s their 30th year, other times they say it’s their 30th anniversary, but I think those are different things. My first wedding anniversary was a year after my marriage, but idk if they’re counting the beginning or end of their season, but I still think they’re off by (at least) one. Am I crazy?
P.S. FWIW, Were currently in the middle of the season
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The end year counts as a season.
If you got married on Christmas of 2020, then your fourth anniversary, 2024, will be your fifth Christmas together (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
Sometimes you count both endpoints, sometimes you count 5he years in between. That’s the difference.
> are celebrating their 30th year, but they started in 1995. 2024 – 1995 = 29, not 30.
Anniversaries work differently than that math you are doing.
Think about 2-1. That equals 1, right? But if you have a team that starts the season in year 1 and it is the end of the season year 2, how many years have they been a team? Two years. They played the season in year 1 and in year 2.
In S. Korea you are 1 when you are born (as in, in your first year). Everyone does these things slightly differently
While I learned it as a ‘fencepost problem’, the generic name for it is ‘[Off-by-one error](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error)’.
Basically, how many fenceposts do you need for 10 lengths of fence? While the answer might seem like an intuitive 10, you need 1 more fencepost to hold the start of the fence as well. There’s a bunch of things where the numbers just barely don’t line up with what we expect.
With time and ‘years’ and such, consider: If they had started this year, what year would they be in? Most people would agree that it’s their 1st year. But ’24-’24 = 0. So it’s an off-by-one type of error.
Your first birthday is the start of your second year. If you’re born on January 1st 2000, 1/1/2021 is your first birthday, but your second January 1st, the start of your second year. Birthdays and anniversaries mark the completion of the period, not the start. In your example, it’s their 29th anniversary, but their 30th season, it’s easier to celebrate the 30th season all season long, and not just at the completion once it’s over.
The Xth anniversary is a celebration of the completion of the Xth year of something.
You celebrate your 1st wedding anniversary when you have completed your 1st year of marriage. You celebrate your 1st birthday when you have completed your 1st year of life.
So in your example, the team celebrated their 29th anniversary this year, which begins their 30th year/season as a team. When that year concludes next year in 2025, they will celebrate their 30th anniversary.
Totally unjust war, that we lost, like the dozens we have lost since 1948.
We are the bad guys.
We have lost every war we started since WW2.
I don’t give a FUCK about your service.
You have been abused as a pawn, which is totally not your fault, but you were ignorant enough to sign up.
Smedley Butler is our true hero.
So the Kannapolis Cannonballers started in 1995. That was their first season, their first year playing. Let’s suppose their greatest fan, Canny Kananza, was born that very year.
In 1996, Canny turns 1, celebrates her 1st birthday. But this is the Cannonballers’ second year playing. Their first year was 1995.
In 1997, the Cannonballers take to the field for their third year (the first two were 1995 and 1996). Canny is, of course, celebrating her 2nd birthday.
And so it goes on. Canny’s age is always one less than the “year” the Cannonballers are playing – because, in 1995, Canny’s age started at 0, and the Cannonballer’s “years” started at 1.
2024-1995 does equal 29. But, by choosing 1995, you’re effectively disregarding their first year. 2024-(year before inception)1994 = 30 years. As others have said, an off-by-one error.
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