NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoHas anything good even happened?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoThat doesn’t make much sense though, year 0 does exist. We define our calendar based on Jesus’s supposed birth year, not his birth year+1. Or?
minus-squarecally [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoYear 0 doesn’t exist because it’s either before or after Christ being born. What would year 0 be? There’d also be asymmetry if there was a 0 A.D. but no 0 B.C. (as that wouldn’t really make sense)
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoYeah, year 0 doesn’t exist, it goes 1BC -> 1AD
minus-squareBigAssFan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoOnly programmers start counting with 0. All the normal people start with 1.
minus-squarelurklurk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoYou mean normal people start at 0 and non-programmers sometimes start at 1? How many apples are you holding right now? Is it less than 1? How would you count that?
minus-squareBigAssFan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoWhen I write that normal people start at 1 then I mean that normal people start at 1, funny enough. Also, I am currently holding 0 apples. No need to start counting.
That doesn’t make much sense though, year 0 does exist. We define our calendar based on Jesus’s supposed birth year, not his birth year+1. Or?
Year 0 doesn’t exist because it’s either before or after Christ being born. What would year 0 be?
There’d also be asymmetry if there was a 0 A.D. but no 0 B.C. (as that wouldn’t really make sense)
Yeah, year 0 doesn’t exist, it goes 1BC -> 1AD
Only programmers start counting with 0. All the normal people start with 1.
You mean normal people start at 0 and non-programmers sometimes start at 1?
How many apples are you holding right now? Is it less than 1? How would you count that?
When I write that normal people start at 1 then I mean that normal people start at 1, funny enough. Also, I am currently holding 0 apples. No need to start counting.