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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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.
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