For the same reason there is no year 0. 0 is the point in between the year -1 and the year +1. Midnight of the 31st December in the year -1 _is_ zero, but one minute later is in fact the 1st January of the year 1.

The runner _starts_ at zero. But whichever way he goes he will run more than zero meters.

(I really wasn't all that serious anyway...)

Johannes

Owain Sutton wrote:


Johannes Gebauer wrote:

It sort of doesn't really make sense to have measure zero in a time line.


Why not? When does the first tenth of a 100m sprint take place? Jumping straight from -1 to 1 seems the less logical option to me.
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