lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 1 year agoDid the year zero never exist ?message-square79fedilinkarrow-up1105
arrow-up1105message-squareDid the year zero never exist ?lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-21 year agoNope. 1 BC/BCE -> 1 AD/CE. That’s just how it was designed.
minus-squaregregorumlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThe concept of zero had not even been discovered at the time the calendar was designed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year 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.
this is absolutely wrong.
Almost. The first recorded use of ‘Zero’ was in Mesopotamia in 3BC/BCE. https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero