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Subject: Re: millenium - 2000 or 2001?
From: Roger M. Derby (derbyrm@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 11:21:49 EST
Paul Baechler wrote:
>
> So when you get change for a $100 bill do you expect the counting to
> start at zero and to get back 99 $1 bills.
That's what will happen if you don't start counting at zero. You subtract the
starting amount from the ending amount. ($100 - 0 = $100, $100 - 1 = $99)
> >There not only wasn't a year zero. There wasn't a
> >year 1000 one millennium ago,
> >even if you allow a couple of years slop.
>
> On what do you base this statement?
>
An authoritative source stated that:
> The system of numbering years from the birth of Jesus
> was first suggested in about 525 AD, and started to be
> accepted in Europe in the 8th or 9th century. There
> is a great deal of uncertainly about the exact dates.
And another stated that the calendar wasn't adopted until sometime after the
eleventh. I may have misstated it, but if you reset the odometer, all bets are
off as to how many years have elapsed.
Roger
-- http://www.seidata.com/~derbyrm
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