On 05-Jan-99 Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

> This just moves the question one place. Why was there no year zero?

The number zero was a reasonable late invention. My encyclopedia mentions it
first being described in 825AD, but is known to have been in use a couple of
hundred years by then. It was pretty much a mathematical revolution.
   _
/Bjorn.

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