Subj : Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : Pancho
Date : Tue Oct 01 2024 16:09:14

On 10/1/24 13:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 30/09/2024 22:48, Pancho wrote:
>> On 9/30/24 14:21, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 30/09/2024 13:21, Pancho wrote:
>>>> On 29/09/2024 09:26, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
>>>>>> Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.eu> wrote:
>>>>>>> There's no year zero. So the first century didn't start until the
>>>>>>> year 1. :-p
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how many years are there in a century?  Does it depend on
>>>>>> which century it is?
>>>>>
>>>>> No, all one hundred years, from 100n+1 CE to 100(n+1) CE inclusive (or
>>>>> 100(n+1) BCE to 100n+1 BCE inclusive).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What about the century containing the Big Bang?
>>>
>>> I dont think anyone was counting then
>>
>> Nonsense, lots going on in that first century. Particularly the first
>> few minutes.
>>
>
> What has that got to do with the fact that no one was counting, then?
>
>> <https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_bigbang_timeline.html>
>

Well, no one was counting in year zero either, when baby Jesus was born.
Otherwise they wouldn't have forgotten to put that year in a century. AD
was devised in AD 525, I just looked it up.

Hindu-Arabic numerals didn't make 0 explicit until much later, maybe
11th century.

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