Re: Spontaneous locale change on Bookworm

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

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So how many years are there in a century?  Does it depend on
which century it is?

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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).
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What about the century containing the Big Bang?

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I dont think anyone was counting then

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Nonsense, lots going on in that first century. Particularly the first few minutes.
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 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.