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Re: CLSOTW - Thanks
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:03:37 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.ORGsaynotospam
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
> Technically, there was, even if it was only defined 525 years later (I
> think the system was generated in 526). Y'see, when Dionysus Exuugus [sp,
> it's late and my Latin sucks] generated the "compiled, authoritative"
> Christian annular calendar, he based it on the idea that there was no year
> zero. Since we use his system, we're therefore beholden to operate by his
Naturally enough, since the concept of zero wasn't accepted in western
thought until about five centuries later.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Technically, there was, even if it was only defined 525 years later (I think the system was generated in 526). Y'see, when Dionysus Exuugus [sp, it's late and my Latin sucks] generated the "compiled, authoritative" Christian annular calendar, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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