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Re: millenium - 2000 or 2001?
From: Roger M. Derby
Date: 1999 Dec 27, 9:22 AM
From: Roger M. Derby
Date: 1999 Dec 27, 9:22 AM
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
