How old is a person who was born on October 4, 1949? Is he 52 or 53?

Hello calbear304,

Because October 4 has already passed this year, the person would be
53. To calculate the age, we take 2002 and subtract 1949. We get the
result of 53 years old.

If the birthday had been on December 28, the age would be 52 because
we have not yet reached December 28.

I recommend the following website to accurately calculate age:

http://www.geocities.com/kongutamil2002/fun3

Enter 10 for month, 4 for Date, and 1949 for year and click on
Calculate.

Hopefully this is the answer you were looking for. If you need any
clarifications, let me know and I will do my best to further assist
you.

tisme-ga


Search strategy:

"calculate your age"
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Request for Answer Clarification by calbear304-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:10 PST

http://www.geocities.com/kongutamil2002/fun3 calculated 52 when I
entered October 4, 1949!  Isn't it 52 instead of 53?

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Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:13 PST

Hello calbear304,

After entering '10' for month, '4' for date, and '1949' for years I
get:

"You are 53 years old   &    you were born on a  Tuesday"

It might be using your computer's date and time, so please ensure that
your operating system's date and time is properly set.

Hope this helps,

tisme-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by calbear304-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:19 PST

Hello again, 

I checked my computer and it is properly set at Friday, December 06,
2002.  I entered October 4, 1949 on that site, since it would not
accept 10-4-1949 and got the answer 52.  This is an easy question, but
I still think it is 52.  Please confirm your answer.  Thanks.

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Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:25 PST

Hello calbear304,

You are getting different results than I am... I still get 53 years.

Think of it this way:

A baby born on October 4, 1999.
2002 - 1999 = 3 years old (not 4).

Birthday number 1 would be on October 4, 2000.
Birthday 2 would be on October 4, 2001.
Birthday 3 would have been on October 4, 2002.

tisme-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by calbear304-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:29 PST

Hello there,

Of course, you're correct!  I wasn't thinking. . .

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Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 06 Dec 2002 09:31 PST

Great! Glad that I was able to help.

tisme-ga

I found this exchange odd, so I visited that age-calculator... it has
a funny bug, such that it lets you type anything you want in the entry
fields, and tries to give you a correct answer, but it only knows how
to handle numbers
[So if you enter "October" instead of "10", it just rounds off the
year].

53 is a good age to be,
  tez-ga