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On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] 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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