Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

Muke Tever writes:
 > 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".
 >
 >

Well, it's the first year before the start.  You don't get zeroes when
you count things, only when you measure things.  We could name years
for the number of years since the origin (start of January 1, 1CE
(which would become 0CE) but that would give us two years zero.  This
might be better in some ways, but I don't think it would be much more
intuitive.