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Re: 20th century

and IF the year zero DID exist, we would need to be able to
'categorize' it as belonging to either the first century CE or the
first century BCE.
Since it can't be in BOTH centuries, I declare that it didn't exist!

At 2:17 PM -0500 11/16/99, Hugh Haskell wrote:
Since there apparently wasn't a "year 0," (How do we know that? Maybe
it's because the number "0" hadn't been invented then?), I have
solved the phase matching problem by starting my count in year "-1"
so that Dec 31 of this year will complete 2000 years since I started
counting. As John M. has pointed out, it's not how long it's been,
but the fact that the next year is labeled with all those zeros that
counts.

Hugh

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