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    From John G Harris@niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid to comp.lang.javascript on Tue Oct 9 19:12:05 2018
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    On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT), dr.s.lartius@gmail.com wrote:

    On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 10:38:25 AM UTC+1, John G Harris wrote:

    This year is the nineth year of the second decade of the first
    centuary of the third millenium.

    Some, including myself and Chrome's spell-checker, would prefer :-

    "This year is the ninth year of the second decade of the first
    century of the third millennium." - but, except for astronomers,
    it is the eighth year.

    I relied on the spelling checker, which for some reason didn't hiccup
    in that article. Anyway, I'm not too worried about spelling when
    replying to Thomas.


    A.D. 0 is noteworthy for non-existence.
    <snip>

    I'm with the astronomers.

    Incidentally, how does one provide irrefutable proof that 0 AD did not
    exist? We know that AD/BC was invented by people who didn't think 0
    was a number, and that it can't be written in Latin. So the year
    before +1 could only be -1, except that they didn't know about
    negative numbers either. But knowledge has moved on since.

    It must have been awkward back then when a child's 1st birthday
    happened in 1 AD. How old were they at birth? Oh, 1 Before First
    Birthday.

    HTH
    John
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