B.C./A.D.
A Greek was born on the 260th day of 20 B.C. and died on the 260th day of A.D. 60.
How many years did he live?
How many years did he live?
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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35 Comments:
I'm going to have to go with 79
1000. ha. beat that. 8D
80 Years. From 20BC to 0BC would make it 20 years plus 60 years for 60 AD.
81, actually. He died on his 81st birthday--you have to remember year 0, it is an extra year.
No, he died on his 80th birthday so he'd only lived 80 years.
Well...
There was no year 0, but it says 260th day of 20 AD, no leap year(Sept. 18th), going to the 260th day of 60 AD, with a leap year(Sept. 17th) So, it was almost 81 years between the two dates, 28854 days or 80.99368 years. So he wasw 80 years old.
no darl, that's wrong. go count it on ur fingers, maybe that'll work for u.
doesn't matter his age, just how many years he'd lived. from BC 20 to 0 is 20 years of life. then 0 to AD 60 is another 60 years of life. no more than that. so if you say there was no year 0, there would be less so that wud make it 79 years he'd lived. don't know where u come up with 80.99....
Good question. In 45 BC Julius Caesar changed the lengths of the months. The Gregorian Calendar counts down 3,2,1 and the Julian starts at 1,2,3 (there is no zero)
You also have the problem of leap years which were considered 'unlucky' and often skipped and the clergy was known to shorten or lengthen years depending on politics (Like the Crimean War)
I don't know how many of the details are really known (I guess I could Google it) I'll be interested in seeing the answer to this one.
80. He had 19 years BC, plus a year-260. He then had 60 years AD, plus 260, which completes the extra part of the BC. So 79+1=80.
Idc this is confusing but I expect an answer to this I give these to my teachers and see if they know!!
He got to be aproximitly 79 years old (because there is no year 0).
Whether he actually did make it to 79 years of age may depend on whether you mean calendar years or solar years.
If you mean calendar years, then he died at the age of 78, 1 day before his 79th birthday, because 60 AD was a leap year and 20 BC wasn't (this is true for both the Georgian calendar we use now and the Julian calendar they used then).
If you mean solar years, we would need to know the times of birth and death. Solar events such as equinoxes and solstices happened in 60 AD approximately 18 hours earlier than in 20 BC, which would mean if, for example, he was born before noon Sept. 18th and died after 6 p.m. Sept. 17th, then the earth would have orbited the sun a full 79 times during his life span.
the year aftyer 1 BC izzit 1 AD?
if so...i guess 79
there was no year 0 so the answer is 79, and I was the one who posted this.
He had 105 days till New years 19BC.. till new years 1AD he had lived 19 years and 105 days... then till new years 60AC obviously 60 years passed... then he had 260 days more to live... he died on his 80th birthday
d= 1/365
19y + 60y + 105d + 260d = 80y
ofcourse with no leap years involved
80 years old
79 years
i wana say 80 but there are people who say that between b.c and a.d there a gap that it dint just switch from 1 bc to 1 ad, that druing the crusades records of years were lost so if that true he might be older than 80
I say that he was 81 because it is 20 years and 260 days before the end of the B.C. era. then 60 years and 260 days in the A.D. era. So 60 plus 20 and 520 days (or 1 year and 155 days)equals 81 years and 155 days.
If you take into consideration that the person was 19 years, 8.5 months when the turn happened, and that the person died probably on thier birthday that year. Also eliminated the obvious that there was no "0" year. You should come to the conclusion that the person lived 78 years old.
because he had not turned 20 before BC ended and he wouldn't have turned 79 until his actual birthday which was not always going to be the 260th day of the year. There are 365 and 1/4 days in the year. (Continuation from above when I said 78)
Come on, guys, this is not that difficult.
260th day of 20 B.C. + 19 years ->
260th day of 1 B.C. + 1 year ->
260th day of 1 A.D. + 59 years ->
260th day of 60 A.D.
19 + 1 + 59 = 79 !!!
For more detail on the effects of leap years, see my post above.
As far as the math is concerned the answer is 79 but as for the fact that we really have no idea as to the exact time of that jesus died an no to mention the fact that they did not measure time a B.C. and A.D. untill several years later there can be no accurate answer. It is assumed by some scholars that our measurement of B.C. A.D could be off as much as 30 years.
It is completly irrelevant when Jesus was born or what time measure they used then! We have a fixed year 1, whether some specific guy was born then or not, we have a working time-measuring system built around that year, that's all we need.
i say 80 providing that a leap year is involved here
wot does bc & ad actually mean
As far as us having a year 1 reguardless of who was born around that time is not important. My poit is that we did not keep track of time the way that we do now 2000 years ago and sombody Guessed as to when that time frame was many years later. The reason I even mentioned Jesus was because BC stands for Before Christ and the whole BC/AD measurement of time that we go by now is based on that. Bottom line is nobody knows for sure.
This would be a trick question since the Greek Civilization di not exist in that time frame. The greeks were around from around 800-323 B.C. so MO this Mythical Year one that Historians are actually Guessing about is a Mute point.
Anonymous, you're still missing the point. There was a year 2007 years ago, and nowadays we call that year "the year 1" - no matter what they called it then (and no matter what happened then). So if the puzzle says the guy was born 20 BC, then he was born 2027 years ago, and if he died 60 AD, then he died 1946 years ago. That's all the information we can draw from the puzzle, and it's all we need to solve it.
And Greeks WERE born in 20 BC, just as Greeks are born today. They were under roman rule, but not died out. Many of the most influential intellectuals of the Roman empire came from Greece, even long after 20 BC.
sorry, i mean he died 1948 years ago. point is, the timeline is fixed - if we find out something didnt happen when we thought it did, we change the DATE of when it was supposed to have happened, we don't change the whole timeline. so presuming the information given to us is true, we can solve the puzzle.
LOL i like you mo if you have a point you stick with it and I can see your logic and I guess I am not as smart as you to try to get my point across to you so I conceed. It would be great to talk with you and I could see us debating on many topics My hat is off to you.
i don think theres a right answer bc back then there might have been a different measurment of time eg.(100days equaled 1 year)
79 days.
There is no such thing as 0 AD or 0 BC
*79 years
Anonymous, I am honored by your obeisance ;)
"i don think theres a right answer bc back then there might have been a different measurment of time eg.(100days equaled 1 year)"
Ah yes. The elusive Metric Year.
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