Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> pekat:
> Not at all.  Just call the year in which Christ was born the year
> 0 AD = 0 BC, then we'd have no problem.
except that we would have to shift the whole system because Christ was
born (according to what I've read) sometime between 4 BC and 7BC.

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> What I've always found especially counterintuitive about the current
> system:  If the year 1 before Christ's birth is immediately followed
> by the year 1 after Christ's birth -- where is the year in which
> Christ was born?
BC is an abbreviation for "before Christ."  AD is an abbreviation for
"anno Domini" (Latin, "in the year of our Lord").  When this system was
created, 1AD was believed to be the year in which Christ was born;
however, additional evidence suggests that Christ could not have been
born after 4BC and was probably not born before 7BC.

Robert Wilson (Elentirno Pereldar) (mailto:han_solo55@juno.com)
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