lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 8 months agoDid the year zero never exist ?message-square73fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squareDid the year zero never exist ?lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square73fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-28 months agoNope. 1 BC/BCE -> 1 AD/CE. That’s just how it was designed.
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoThe concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•8 months agoAlmost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero
Nope. 1 BC/BCE -> 1 AD/CE. That’s just how it was designed.
The concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
Almost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero
this is absolutely wrong.