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Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 17, 2002, 22:58
From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
> 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".
The counterintuituity comes in that the year before it is also "1", not "0". *Muke! (who just mistyped "conlang" as "coonlang" in the to: field...) -- http://www.frath.net/

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