29th December 2015, 11:15 AM
http://www.projectpluto.com/no_zero.htm
Frankly, this isn't the logic I use to defend it (I say it's 2000 because that's what everyone calls it, and if they wanted the new millennium to start a year later, they should have called it 1999), but if you're going from a historical perspective, there's still good reason to consider 1 BC to be 0 AD (and vice versa if you wish).
Frankly, this isn't the logic I use to defend it (I say it's 2000 because that's what everyone calls it, and if they wanted the new millennium to start a year later, they should have called it 1999), but if you're going from a historical perspective, there's still good reason to consider 1 BC to be 0 AD (and vice versa if you wish).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)