From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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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".