Debate of decade

I fear the apparently well educated RA Mutch (Letters, 2 January) is the one who is "mathematically challenged". All those years ago, when the babe was laid in the manger, his life was counted in minutes. One year later, he was one year old. Ten years after his birth, he was ten years old and about to embark on his second decade. Two thousand years after his birth we were about to embark on the third millennium AD and are now a few days into the second decade of the third thousa

Don't fret, Mr Mutch – I'm sure he'll forgive you for getting his age wrong!

NEIL PIRRIT

Hatton Gardens

Glasgow