HAPPY NEW MILLENIUM

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So, we have 1 B.C.
We have 1 A.D.

Halfway inbetween, everybody drank.


D

* On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:49:33PM -0700, Jonathan Claxton wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, James Bell wrote:
> 
> > David Barker wrote:
> 
> > 1) Years are not counted starting with zero in any calendar I've ever
> > heard of, and especially not in the one in use in the western world
> > for at least the past millennium.
> 
> 
> As I recently learned why the first year was named ONE. It's because when
> the current calendar, Gregoian, was created, there was no symbol for the
> romain numeral ZERO so thus, the first year was named ONE.
> 
> jzc