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Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 21:59
Christian Thalmann writes:
 >
 > You can always blame it on religion, which is probably even older
 > than counting, and can justify just about any counterintuitive
 > social feature.  Just think of how there's no year "0" in our time
 > reckoning!  ;-)
 >

I don't think there's anything particularly counterintuitive about the
first year being called "1".